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Pew Research Center

Think tank based in Washington, D.C., US

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Dec 4, 2025
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How many pardons and clemencies did Biden give

President Joe Biden granted a historic total of individual acts of clemency — 4,245 pardons and commutations over his term — and used large-scale proclamations and mass commutations in his final weeks...

Nov 15, 2025
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How many people have self deported since the Trump Administration took over in 2025

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Trump administration has publicly claimed that roughly 1.6 million people "self‑deported" (part of a broader figure of 2 million people who have lef...

Nov 30, 2025
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Who won the 2024 U.S. presidential popular vote and what were the totals?

The available sources report that Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and carried the Electoral College with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226 (National Archives; BBC) . Multiple ...

Jan 14, 2026

Which U.S. states have the largest undocumented immigrant populations and how have trends changed recently?

California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois together held the largest shares of the U.S. unauthorized (undocumented) population in recent estimates, accounting for roughly half to mo...

Nov 26, 2025

How many votes did Kamala Harris get in the 2024 election (if she ran) and what were the official totals?

Available reporting shows Kamala Harris was the Democratic nominee in 2024 and lost the election to Donald Trump; most sources report vote totals in the high tens of millions — for example, one outlet...

Nov 13, 2025

What percentage of undocumented immigrants in the US are white?

The core claim — that a specific percentage of undocumented immigrants in the United States are white — cannot be confirmed from the sources supplied: none of the referenced pieces provides a direct, ...

Nov 13, 2025

What are the most popular left-leaning news sources in the US?

The most consistently identified and are mainstream broadcast and national papers—CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, PBS and the major broadcast networks—alongside established progressive digital an...

Nov 10, 2025

What were the top-ranked trustworthy news outlets in 2024 surveys?

The most consistent finding across the provided 2024 surveys is that , while sensational and partisan outlets like the National Enquirer, Infowars, and Breitbart sat near the bottom on net trust measu...

Dec 18, 2025

how many illegal aliens entered the US in 2025

There is no single, authoritative count in the provided reporting that states “how many illegal aliens entered the U.S. in 2025”; available official sources give month-by-month “encounters” and operat...

Nov 17, 2025

what is the estimated illegal immigrants number in the united states

Estimates of how many unauthorized or “illegal” immigrants live in the United States vary widely: leading academic and nonpartisan estimates put the mid‑2023 figure between about 13.7 million and 14 m...

Dec 8, 2025

How has the Muslim population in the UK changed over the past decades and what are the projections to 2030 and 2050?

The UK’s Muslim population rose from about 1.6 million in 2001 to roughly 4.0 million in 2021, making Muslims about 6% of the overall UK population according to the Muslim Council of Britain’s census ...

Nov 16, 2025

Did Trump win 2024 election by a lands

Donald J. Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 312 Electoral College votes to Kamala D. Harris’s 226, a 86-vote Electoral College margin that several outlets count as a clear victory though n...

Nov 22, 2025

Which US states have the highest rates of illegal immigration in 2025?

Pew Research Center’s August 2025 reporting says the unauthorized (commonly called “illegal”) immigrant population reached a record 14 million in 2023 and that six states — California, Texas, Florida,...

Dec 9, 2025

How many migrants crossed the US-Mexico border during each year of the Biden administration?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports “encounters” — a combined count of Border Patrol apprehensions, port-of-entry inadmissibles and Title 42 expulsions — that rose sharply early in Presid...

Nov 9, 2025

Are 15% of Muslims extremists?

The claim that “15% of Muslims are extremists” is not supported by the materials provided and lacks credible empirical backing; multiple analyses of terrorism, survey data, and expert trackers show in...

Nov 20, 2025

What percentage of eligible US voters voted in 2024?

Official and reputable post-election analyses put 2024 turnout between about 64% and 65.3% of the eligible U.S. electorate: the University of Florida Election Lab and related reporting cite roughly 64...

Dec 1, 2025

What political party has done more to increase the national debt

Democratic presidents have added more inflation-adjusted debt overall since 1913, though Democrats have also occupied the White House for more years in that period, and the national debt has risen ste...

Dec 6, 2025

What were the main reasons cited by Americans who never got a COVID-19 vaccine through 2025?

Large surveys and reporting in 2025 show a majority of U.S. adults were unwilling to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine (59% saying they did not want one) and many Americans reported that CDC guideline c...

Nov 15, 2025

how many jews are there in the world

Estimates for the global Jewish population in 2024–2025 cluster between roughly 15.3 million and 16.5 million people, equal to about 0.2% of the world’s population (figures vary by definition and sour...

Nov 11, 2025

How many Muslims are there in the world today?

The best available estimates place the global Muslim population at roughly today, representing about ; multiple demographic projects and compilations converge on this range for the early-to-mid 2020s....