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Drought conditions in Phoenix, Arizona have been nearly the same for a decade and a half.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought an abrupt end to an era of relative prosperity in the United States. After years of steady economic expansion and job growth, the U.S. poverty rate stood at 12.3% in...
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There were 1.2 million violent crimes — murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults — committed in the United States in 2019, according to the most recent available FBI data. The 2019...
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New York City will be as hard as, if not harder than, any city in the country by a new winter megastorm.
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overnight. One of America's largest cities, often hit by hurricanes in the summer and autumn, is under siege by winter.
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Montana, one of the least diverse states in the country, is the one with the most hate groups.
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Voluntary gifts to U.S. colleges and universities dipped by less than 1% in 2020, even as the pandemic raged across the country.
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The United States has gotten safer in the past few decades, but Alaska is the most dangerous state in America.
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The United States has gotten safer in the past few decades, and Maine ranks as the safest state in America.
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The United States tumbled to its worst score on the Corruption Perceptions Index since 2012.
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Because of Mississippi’s comparatively poor socioeconomic and health conditions, the state ranks as the worst in which to live.
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Governor David Ige of Hawaii was the least popular governor in a recent survey of approval ratings during the pandemic.
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In some states, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has been far worse than in others.
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Though the odds of winning the jackpot are astronomically low, Americans still spend billions of dollars on the lottery each year in the hopes of striking it rich. Across the 44 states that have some...
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It remains to be seen if Donald Trump will leave office on January 20 or will be forced out first. Either way, he is almost certainly the richest man who has served as president.
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