News in Numbers
Cities that have banned their local governments from using facial recognition technology. They are Oakland, Calif.; San Francisco and Somerville, Mass.
Children who were removed from their home in 2017 due to parental drug use -- up from 39,130 in 2000.
Fine in Hawaii for crossing an intersection after the countdown for pedestrians has begun. The new law follows a rise in pedestrian deaths in the state.
The amount Equifax has agreed to pay to settle federal and state investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information for nearly 150 million people. The settlement would be the largest ever paid by a company over a data breach.
The number of power outages Wisconsin and Michigan experienced as a result of damaging winds that swept through nearly 500 miles in 10 hours on Friday.
The number of police officers Philadelphia plans to fire after they posted racist and violent social media comments.
The amount California will spend to pay off medical school debt as part of a program aimed at increasing the number of doctors who see Medi-Cal patients in a state experiencing a shortage of healthcare providers.
Version of Microsoft software that thousands of election systems -- even new ones -- are using. In January 2020, Microsoft will stop automatically securing it, making those systems more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Time that people in much of Manhattan went without power on Saturday. It's unclear what caused the blackout, but the utility ruled out a cyberattack.
County clerks in Arkansas who are women. There isn't a single state in the country where women make up less than half of the county clerks.
Length of the six-lane, high-speed “smart” intersection that companies and researchers are using to test driverless vehicles in Ohio. It's touted as the industry's longest.
Drop in the odds of teens using marijuana after the drug is legalized in a state for recreational purposes.
Length of the Virginia Legislature's special session on Tuesday. The Democratic governor called it to discuss gun laws in the wake of a mass shooting at a government building, but the Republican-controlled General Assembly ended it without voting on any of the 30 bills.
Cost of being court-ordered to wear an ankle monitor in Missouri, which is paid to a private company. Defendants, parolees and probationers also must pay $300 upfront, plus a $50 installation fee. The expense, which more and more states and cities are passing down, lands some people in jail simply for not being able to afford the GPS supervision.
States that started the new fiscal year, which began July 1, without a final budget. They are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
Time a driver's license can be suspended, under a new law, for refusing a police officer's request to take a sobriety test in the state of Kansas. The maximum suspension is the same for failure of a breathalyzer or blood test.
911 calls that failed to go through in 2017 due to an AT&T outage. Customers couldn't dial 911 again on Tuesday morning.
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
Anticipated reduction in non-citizens' response rate to the 2020 Census if it includes a citizenship question. That translates to an overall drop of 2.2 percentage points for all households.
People who could lose their health care -- whether it's through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program or the marketplace -- if the Trump administration goes through with its proposal to change how the federal poverty line is calculated.
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.
National Guard troops that the Texas governor said on Friday that he will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, which will double the number of Texas troops there.
Ransom that hackers demanded from Riviera Beach, Fla., which is equivalent to $600,000. The city paid it. The cyberattack forced local police and fire departments to write 911 calls on paper.
Current and former police officers whose offensive social media posts have been compiled and published by the watchdog Plain View Project. Several law enforcement agencies have since taken disciplinary action against those officers or launched their own investigations.
Amount that Google pledged to give toward alleviating the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area, where its headquarters is located.
Age of Quinton Lucas, the Kansas City Councilor who won the mayor's race on Tuesday. He will be the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
On Monday, New York joined the 12 other states that let undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses.
Long-term health care workers who are immigrants. According to a new study, the Trump administration's immigration policies could worsen workforce shortages in this industry, which already suffers from high turnover.
Hours that California utilities will start charging customers extra for weekday energy use. It will be the first to implement statewide surge pricing.
This week, Maine joined the seven other states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide -- otherwise known as "death with dignity" or "aid in dying" -- for terminally ill people.
