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The $4 million in book advances received by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were for two books to be published by a company owned by his associate, Tony Lyons.

Cheryl Hines, wife of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accepted $210,000 in consulting fees from MAHA Action, a nonprofit advocacy group led by Tony Lyons.

According to his financial disclosure form finalized in September 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in book advances and over $270,000 in gifts in the preceding year.

Sheriff Chad Bianco said he began his investigation into the 2025 special election after activists claimed that vote tallies did not match the ballots received.

In California's 2025 special election, Proposition 50, a plan to redraw congressional districts, passed with 64 percent of the statewide vote.

The article states that the supposed discrepancy in the 2025 special election vote count would not have affected the outcome.

A ProPublica report published on September 22, 2026, stated that the FBI's anti-corruption group was investigating Senator Susan Collins for a pay-to-play scheme involving illegal donations from defense contractor Navatek to her 2020 campaign, after which Navatek received multimillion-dollar government contracts.

Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the media companies, told CNN that the September 2026 court ruling blocking the White House press ban was a "strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law."

The trend of Americans warming to China in 2026 is reportedly bipartisan and particularly pronounced among young people.

The September 2026 Pew Research Center poll on views of China was conducted from Sept. 1-15 among 3,576 adults and had a margin of error of +/- 2.1 percentage points.

A July 2026 Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll found that 62% of Americans believe China is more powerful economically than the United States.

The July 2026 Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll on views of China was conducted from July 7-26 among 2,108 adults and had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points.

In a 2020 Pew Research Center poll, 59% of Americans named the United States as the world’s leading economic power.

A September 2026 Pew Research Center poll found that 61% of Americans aged 18-29 had a "warm" or "neutral" view of China, compared to 36% of those 65 and older.

A September 2026 Pew Research Center poll found that 42% of Americans see China as the world's leading economic power, while 40% name the United States.

Bruce Stokes is an expert on foreign policy polling at the German Marshall Fund.

Dina Smeltz, who oversees polling for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, is a former State Department official.

The New York Times/Siena polls (Sept. 2026) give more weight to respondents from underrepresented demographic groups, such as people without a college degree.

For the Sept. 2026 New York Times/Siena polls, the margin of sampling error among likely voters is ±2.8 percentage points for the three states combined and about ±5 percentage points for each individual state.

For the New York Times/Siena polls in Maine, Michigan, and New Hampshire (Sept. 15-22, 2026), interviewers placed over 235,000 calls to more than 85,000 voters.