Facts & Trends

U.S. spending

By 2021, the White House forecasts, the U.S. will be spending more on interest for the national debt than on the entire defense budget ...

The FBI has files on roughly 77.7 million people in the U.S.—the equivalent of one in three American adults. As many as 12,000 new names are added to its master criminal database every day, largely as the result of minor arrests ...

Medication In The U.S.

Portion of Americans who are currently taking at least one prescription drug: 1/2 Who are taking five or more: 1/10 Estimated number of U.S. children aged two or three being prescribed ADHD medication: 14,000 ...

Driving and Cell Phones

Chance that a U.S. automobile accident occurs when at least one of the drivers is texting or talking on a cell phone: 1 in 4 ...

Right place, right time

Cary Clevenger, 14, was playing with his friend Gavin Starns outside Gavin's house in Austin when he happened to look up. Perched on the ledge of a second-story window was Gavin's 2-year-old brother, Cannon. At that moment, Cannon pushed through the ...

Turnabout Is Fair Play

A Vancouver woman saw the bicycle that was stolen from her put up for sale on Craigslist. She called, met the seller, and asked for a test ride. “And then I just got on it and rode away,” said Kayla ...

Camels In Tights

A Middle Eastern company has unveiled a fetching new line of Lycra leotards for racing camels to improve their performance on the track. Camel racing is popular across the Arab world, and Abu Dhabi based firm Al-Shibla says its compression ...

How Optimistic Are the World’s Millennials?

A Telefonica - Financial Times survey asked more than 12,000 millennials if their country's "best days" lay ahead. Here's the positive vote by the region... Asia - 79% Latin America - 78% Central and Eastern Europe - 69% Middle East ...

Air Pollution

Portion of Americans who live in areas harmful levels of air pollution: 1/2 Number of the top five most polluted cities in the country that are in California: 5 ...