News in Numbers
Candidates running for mayor of Seattle. Mayor Ed Murray was expected by many to win re-election until allegations of sexual abuse led him to drop out of the race.
The new minimum wage in St. Louis, as of Aug. 28, which will be down from $10. The city increased it to $10 in 2015, but a new state law makes it illegal for municipalities in Missouri to set their own minimum wage.
States that have passed legislation to require paid family leave. Washington state this week joined California, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
States that have refused to provide some or all of the voter information requested by the Trump administration's Commission on Election Integrity.
Amount that Vermont promised to put in a college savings account for every child born in the state. Since the law passed two years ago, though, the state has only raised enough private funding to give each kid $2.77.
Limit on opioid prescriptions for acute pain in Kentucky, which now has the toughest restrictions of this kind in the nation.
Times that one man has rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument outside of a state capitol. He did it in Oklahoma in 2014, and again in Arkansas this week.
Unpaid bills the state of Illinois owes. In 2015, when Gov. Bruce Rauner took office, it was around $5 billion. Since then, the GOP governor and the Democratic legislature have been in a deadlock over the budget.
Settlement paid by the government to the mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist fatally shot by police in Minnesota while his girlfriend and her 4-year-old sat next to him. The deal comes weeks after the officer was acquitted of all charges related to the shooting.
Year that the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that women cannot revoke consent after sexual intercourse begins. The law, which isn't found anywhere else in the nation, makes it difficult to prosecute rape cases.
States that California state employees and officials are banned from traveling to using taxpayer dollars. Each of them has laws that California considers discriminatory toward the LGBT community.
States where revenues for fiscal 2017 turned out to be less than forecasted, which represents the most since the recession. As a result, 23 states have cut spending and more could follow.
Average amount a state spends on each person's health care. Utah spent the least ($5,982), and Alaska spent the most ($11,064) in 2014.
High temperature that was forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday, which prompted American Airlines to cancel some flights out of the city.
Age that someone must be in Texas, under a new law set to take effect in September, to get married. In 2016, Virginia was the first state to raise the minimum marriage age to 18.
Canine attacks on postal workers in the U.S. in 2016, up from 5,581 in 2013. Among major cities, Los Angeles had the largest number of attacks: 80.
The number of children in Maine that lack health insurance. That's 6 percent of all children in the state, a 50 percent increase from 2010, when only 4 percent of kids were uninsured. Even as the rates of uninsured children across the nation have dropped, those in Maine continue to climb.
The percentage of Georgia voters that said they were closely following the House special election between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff in a poll by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Sixty-four percent said they were following the race "very closely," and 52 percent said they thought the race was more important than past elections.
The percentage of Puerto Rican voters that cast a ballot in favor of U.S. statehood in a non-binding referendum on Sunday. But there's a catch: turnout was only at 23 percent, significantly lower than P.R.'s usual high turnout rates. Critics say only statehood supporters turned out to vote.
The number of cities since 2006 where lawsuits played an important role in eventual bankruptcy filings. Municipal bankruptcies are generally rare, but legal decisions have contributed majorly to 30 percent of them over the last decade.
The number of fatal police shootings that have taken place in Maine so far this year. That's twice as many people as were killed by Maine police in all of 2015 and 2016 combined.
States where the opioid crisis has been declared a public health emergency. They are: Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Commute to work for a growing share of Americans. From 2010 to 2015, more people became so-called super commuters in 40 states.
Estimated bed bugs in a cup that a citizen slammed on the counter in a municipal office in Augusta, Maine, after being told he didn't qualify for assistance. His reaction released the bugs and closed the city offices for extermination.
Confirmed cases of measles in Minnesota, which exceeds the number of cases in the United States last year. Most of the victims are unvaccinated preschool children.
Terminally ill people in California who have sought a prescription for life-ending drugs since June 2016, which is when the state's physician-assisted death law took effect. The practice is legal in five other states plus the District of Columbia.
One-year increase in single-family home prices in the Seattle metro area, which represents the largest in the country and more than double the national average of 5.8 percent.
States with "Blue Lives Matter" laws, which increase the penalties for violent and nonviolent crimes against police officers and extend protection to off-duty cops and their relatives. Last year, Louisiana was the first state to pass such a bill.
Time that Chicago's population has been in decline. In 2016, it was the only major U.S. city to lose population.
