News in Numbers
Percent of voters who chose "none of these candidates" in Nevada's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Even though "no one" actually finished first, the runner-up, Robert Goodman, will face the state's Republican governor in the general election.
Percent of Americans who are neither “consistently liberal” nor “consistently conservative," marking a 20-year low of people who fall in the middle of the ideological spectrum.
Percent of consistently liberal Americans who have an unfavorable view of Fox News. Seventy-one percent of their conservative counterparts say the same about MSNBC.
Total amount spent by Randolph–Macon College Economics Professor David Brat by May 21 in his successful campaign to defeat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The Cantor campaign, in contrast, spent $168,000 on steakhouses alone.
Approximate cost of pushing back the start time for Montgomery County, Md., schools, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The superintendent proposed the change so students could get more sleep but recently gave up on the plan "after receiving the final cost estimates."
Ratio of seriously mentally ill people in U.S. state prisons and jails to those in state psychiatric hospitals.
Number of school shootings that have occurred in America since the 2012 tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
Debt over which Equity Residential properties, in East Palo Alto, Calif., attempted to evict a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment in order to raise the rent to market rate in the rapidly gentrifying area.
Number of cyclist fatalities in New York City since its bike-share program started in May 2013.
Miles of bike facilities that Washington, D.C., plans to have by 2040, according to MoveDC, the city’s first comprehensive transportation guide in two decades.
Portion of women in state prisons who are pregnant when they begin their sentence.
Number of West Virginians who have won Powerball tickets worth at least $1 million in 2014. The state ranks first in per capita lottery winnings.
Percent of e-cigarette nicotine poisoning cases in Oklahoma this year that have involved children under the age of six.
Gallons of water California uses annually to grow almonds, which is about 10 percent of the state's total water supply.
Number of Minnesota laws repealed this year as part of Gov. Mark Dayton's "unsession" initiative to get rid of obsolete laws.
The amount New York City spends on each of its students, which is more than any other large public school system in the country.
Amount of money necessary to fix train stations on the French railway network because engineers failed to measure the distance between the tracks and platforms, leaving 341 trains that are too big to fit in the stations.
Estimated number of bees released on Interstate 95 in Delaware, after a tractor trailer carrying 460 hives crashed last week. The bee swarms prompted police to activate the state's "honeybee swarm removal plan," which was established in 1995 and had never been used before.
Cost of a two-year-old, 18,000-seat high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, that is closed for the upcoming season after engineers determined the structure was "not safe for public assembly.” Taxpayers approved a bond issue to pay for the stadium in 2009.
The difference in annual salary between a state legislator serving in New Hampshire ($100) and California ($91,000).
Incentive package offered to the ABC drama "Nashville" from the state of Tennessee, Metro Nashville, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. and Ryman Hospitality Properties in order to keep the show filming in the state.
Number of votes by which high school senior Saira Blair defeated incumbent Larry D. Kump for the Republican nomination for the 59th District of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Estimated cost of Arlington, Virginia's streetcar -- up more than $100 million from the previous estimate.
Monthly pension collected by Irene Triplett of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, from her father's service in the U.S. Civil War. Triplett, 84, receives America’s last Civil War pension.
Number of police officers for every 10,000 residents in the District of Columbia, which is the highest rate in the country.
Percent decline in government support for America's poorest families (single-parent families with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line) between 1983 and 2004.
Percent of North Carolina's registered voters who participated in primary elections Tuesday.
