News in Numbers
That's how many free modular public bathrooms New York City began installing this month across all five boroughs ...
That's how many years it has been since the Atlantic hurricane season went this long without producing a single hurricane, breaking a record that dated to 1914 ...
That's the age at which Californians with permanent medical impairments will be able to opt out of jury service without a doctor's note, under a bill signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom that takes effect Jan. 1, 2028 ...
That's how much motor vehicle thefts dropped in cities that adopted Flock Safety license plate reader cameras in the year following their introduction, the first research to show a measurable link between the cameras and crime reduction ...
That's how much a conservative dark-money group based in Ohio has spent to back Amendment 84, a Colorado ballot measure that would require mail ballot voters to write a Social Security number or driver's license number on their return envelope or have their ballot set aside ...
That's the estimated share of heat-related emergency room visits in the United States attributable to human-caused climate change during warm seasons from 2018 through 2025 ...
That's how many international travelers visited New Mexico in 2025, a 1.1 percent increase over the prior year, bucking a 5.5 percent drop in international visitors to the United States overall ...
That's how much school funding California's largest teachers union is suing to recover — $1.9 billion withheld by Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2024-25 school year and $3.9 billion deferred in the revised July budget ...
That's the share of California businesses that survive 10 years or more, placing the state 28th out of 50 in business longevity, just below the national norm of 35 percent ...
That's the first license plate in California's new sequence — three numerals, three letters, one numeral — now being produced after the state exhausted every combination in its previous 46-year format, which ran from 1AAA000 in 1980 to 9ZZZ999 this year ...
That's how much the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East spent investigating whether an employee improperly accessed emails and hiring a private investigator to sweep its offices for listening devices ...
That's the estimated cost of President Donald Trump's "Trump Dividend" proposal, a promise to send every American adult a $5,000 check if Republicans win the November midterms ...
That's the share of North Dakota's goods exports that go to Canada — the highest of any U.S. state — making it uniquely exposed to Canadian retaliatory tariffs that took effect Tuesday after the Trump administration imposed new levies on Canadian imports ...
That's how much Florida has committed to vendors who built the state's detention facilities and carried out its immigration crackdown, with nearly $630 million already paid out and about $812 million in outstanding balances ...
That's how many homeless people could be forced to move when security officials impose expansive perimeters around Olympic venues ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ...
That's the Dolly Parton anthem — and the date, September 25 — that New York state Sens. Erik Bottcher and Jeremy Cooney are working to designate as an official state holiday honoring the country music icon, who died last week at 80 ...
That's how much the Maryland Transportation Authority failed to collect in tolls and penalties, an amount nearly equal to the agency's entire annual operating budget of $885 million ...
That's the number of states that now offer a mobile driver's license accepted by TSA at airport security, with Colorado joining the list Monday after Gov. Jared Polis announced the myColorado app's mDL will be accepted at all Colorado airports and more than 250 airports nationwide ...
The amount of Maine goods that will be hit by Canadian retaliatory tariffs, according to Sen. Susan Collins ...
That's how much of Oregon's total land area — 2.4 million acres of mostly rangeland — has burned this fire season, most of it within a single month ...
That's the estimated prison value of a contraband package dropped by drone at Sussex I State Prison in Virginia, intercepted by corrections staff before inmates could retrieve it ...
That's how many people have died from measles in the United States this year — both unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County, Pa. — the country's first measles-associated deaths of 2026 and Pennsylvania's first measles fatalities in 35 years ...
That's how much out-of-state enrollment increased at the University of Alaska Southeast this year — from 60 to more than 80 new students — after the university piloted "Alaska Unlocked," a policy offering in-state tuition rates to all undergraduates regardless of residency ...
That's the projected annual revenue hole Tennessee created for itself by banning THCA — a hemp-derived cannabinoid that converts to THC when smoked ...
That's how much federal funding the Southern Nevada Water Authority will receive for leaving 50,000 acre-feet of its Colorado River allocation in Lake Mead this year, roughly one-sixth of Nevada's total annual allotment ...
That's how many states have reported cyberattacks on their water and wastewater systems since July 26 ...
That's how many votes separate two Democratic candidates for a Washington state Senate seat after Monday's ballot count ...
That's how many federal election monitors the Justice Department plans to deploy to polling locations during November's midterm elections, a figure Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon called "probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration" ...
That's the probability that a "super" El Niño will develop this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with a roughly 7 in 10 chance it will be the strongest such climate pattern since 1950 ...
That's the statewide average temperature in degrees Fahrenheit that Colorado recorded on July 27, breaking the previous daily record, set in 2005, by more than 1.5 degrees. The four-day stretch from July 25 to 28 included the first- and third-hottest days in Colorado's recorded history. State climatologists called it the worst heat wave in 75 years of records. The Eastern Plains town of Burlington hit 113 degrees, just two degrees shy of the state's all-time high. It was Colorado's second-hottest July in 132 years of record-keeping, with the Denver metro area and northwest Colorado recording their hottest July ever. Nationally, it was the contiguous United States' single hottest July on record.
