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The U.S. government set the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 at 7,500 and allocated a majority of those spots for Afrikaners from South Africa who were described by the administration as fleeing government-sponsored race-based discrimination.

Israel and the United States have been pressuring Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.

As of 2025-11-21, 13 U.S. states enforce bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and four additional states bar abortion at or around six weeks of gestation.

As of 2025, Republicans had won five of the ten most recent New Jersey gubernatorial elections.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that about 90% of the cocaine that reaches the United States originates in Colombia.

United States sanctions regimes can include secondary sanctions that threaten penalties against third parties who engage in prohibited transactions with targeted entities.

Fentanyl has largely replaced heroin and prescription opioids such as oxycodone as a leading cause of drug overdose deaths in the United States.

Leland is a town in Washington County in the Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi.

At the time reported, North Dakota was among 13 U.S. states enforcing bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and an additional four states barred abortion at or around six weeks gestational age.

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade enabled states to enact and enforce their own abortion bans.

Virginia and New Jersey are the only U.S. states that hold gubernatorial elections in the calendar year immediately following a U.S. presidential election.