Number of U.S. senators, all Republicans, who announced beforehand that they would challenge the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, though they offered no evidence of fraud: 14

Amount Northrop Grumman’s political action committees contributed to federal campaigns and committees from 2000 to date, according to OpenSecrets.org: almost $24 million

Under this Jim Crow system, number of African Americans who’ve won statewide office in Mississippi, the state with the highest concentration of black residents: 0

Of the 10 U.S. states at greatest risk from hurricanes and other tropical storms, which are becoming more extreme due to human-caused…

Tracing the digital “footprint” of more than 770 climate scientists and climate science deniers across 100,000 English-language media reports, it found that about half of the mainstream media visibility on the topic of climate change goes to science deniers

Some see what’s happening to migrant children at the U.S. border as a human rights catastrophe. Some see it as a chance to turn a profit

Number of abortion-restricting bills that have been introduced in state legislatures this year, with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group,…

“We deserve the right to choose for ourselves which power type and which power company is right for ourselves”

Total amount the electric utility industry as a whole has contributed to individual candidates at the state and federal levels so far this election cycle: almost $26 million

Percent of registered voters purged from the rolls in North Carolina between September 2016 and May 2018: 11.7