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Yes — Social Security benefits remain potentially subject to federal income tax in 2026 under the existing “combined income” rules that can make up to 85% of benefits taxable, but a new enhanced senio...
A patchwork of criminal laws governs sex with animals (bestiality/zoophilia): many countries have enacted explicit bans, others rely on animal-cruelty or pornography statutes, and a few jurisdictions ...
The temporary “enhanced” Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the ARPA/IRA-era increases that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and reduced required househo...
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug with approved human uses (e.g., scabies, strongyloidiasis) and long-standing veterinary formulations; several U.S. states moved in 2025 to allow over‑the‑counter (O...
Available reporting does not provide a reliable, population‑level percentage for how many couples “cuckold” or practice cuckolding; most pieces discuss definitions, anecdote, or small surveys rather t...
For 2026 Social Security payments, recipients may still owe federal income tax on a portion of their benefits depending on “combined income”: up to 85% of benefits can be taxed under current federal r...
As of reporting in January 2025, animal-law watchdogs and legal trackers report that only West Virginia lacks an explicit state statute banning sexual acts with animals; the Animal Legal Defense Fund ...
No U.S. state has legalized or intentionally decriminalized bestiality since 2010; the legal trajectory over the past decade-and-a-half has been the opposite — a steady patching of statutory gaps so t...
Data from the 2023 American Community Survey shows many of the states with the highest poverty rates are in the South and Southwest, and a plurality of those high-poverty states are under Republican c...
Death certificates in the U.S. are completed by a certifier (physician, medical examiner or coroner) and filed with the local or state vital records office; the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death is t...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire after 2025, KFF estimates average marketplace premium payments would more than double (+114%, from $888 to $1,904), raising net annual...
Red (“Republican-leaning”) states generally register higher official poverty rates than blue (“Democratic-leaning”) states in multiple recent analyses, but the relationship between party control, pove...
Nine states still tax at least some Social Security benefits as of the 2025 tax year, though the rules differ widely by state and income; West Virginia is completing a legislated phase‑out so it will ...
The available analyses point repeatedly to large, populous states—Florida, Texas, and California—as the states with the highest number of residents receiving Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace prem...
Since 2000 dozens of jurisdictions have updated laws that criminalize sex with animals or tightened related animal‑welfare statutes. Reporting and legal trackers show major waves: many U.S. states rew...
Available reporting and trackers show hundreds of individual lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration by states, businesses, advocacy groups and officials — but there is no single, au...
As of reporting in early 2025, advocacy groups tracking state animal-cruelty statutes report West Virginia as the only U.S. state without an explicit statutory ban on sexual acts with animals (bestial...
California and Florida listed the largest counts of registered Republicans in 2024, with roughly and registered Republicans respectively, according to September 2024 reporting; these two states togeth...
As of 2025 the available analyses show the national U.S. poverty rate around 10.6% in 2024, with evidence that experienced substantially higher poverty by some measures (the Supplemental Poverty Measu...
A wave of state actions since 2014 closed many of the previously identified gaps in U.S. law against sexual acts with animals: notable post-2014 enactments and fixes include New Jersey in 2015, Texas ...