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Most reporting and official U.S. assessments identify Mexico and Colombia as the primary countries through which the largest volumes of illegal drugs—especially fentanyl and cocaine—reach the United S...
News reports allege the Trump administration sent "tens of millions" of dollars — often cited as $45 million — in cash to Afghanistan that critics say reached the Taliban through Afghanistan’s banking...
Former President Barack Obama ordered multiple military strikes and sustained air campaigns without new, specific congressional authorizations — notably interventions in Libya and expanded airstrikes ...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Pete Hegseth received two Bronze Star medals: one for his 2005–2006 Iraq deployment and a second for his 2012 Afghanistan tour . Multiple contemporary reports and document archives indicate his medals...
Pete Hegseth served as a commissioned infantry officer in the Army National Guard and deployed to Afghanistan; military evaluations and reporting characterize him as a junior infantry officer with “ba...
Available reporting in the provided set shows disagreement about who “bombed more countries” and focuses on different metrics—number of bombs dropped, countries struck, and transparency. Some outlets ...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration conducted U.S. airstrikes and drone strikes across at least seven countries, with the most-cited list including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia...
Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
Pete Hegseth’s basic service in the Army National Guard and his status as a commissioned infantry officer are corroborated by an official Department of Defense biography and by reference works such as...
President Obama did not routinely seek new, specific congressional authorizations for the wide-ranging drone and airstrike campaigns of his presidency; his administration primarily relied on the post‑...
Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...
Claims that “Russia has invaded 19 countries in the last 100 years” are not directly confirmed by the available sources; reporting and scholarly lists document many Soviet and Russian interventions an...
Estimates of deaths tied to the Afghanistan wars since 2001 vary widely by category and source: Brown University’s Costs of War project counts more than 940,000 direct deaths across five post‑9/11 the...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard after graduating Princeton in 2003 and served in multiple deployments; reporting and official biographies indicate he ro...
Barack Obama inherited two large-scale U.S. wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and during his presidency the United States was engaged militarily in at least five overseas conflicts — Afghanistan, Iraq (incl...
President Trump delivered an “affordability” rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, where he repeatedly downplayed complaints about the cost of living — calling affordability a “hoax” or “con job” pushe...
President Trump has publicly attacked Somalis and announced enforcement actions targeting Somali migrants, saying “I don’t want them in our country” and calling Somalis and Rep. Ilhan Omar derogatory ...
Illicit drugs reaching U.S. consumers come largely from Latin America, with cocaine originating primarily in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and synthetic opioids—most notably fentanyl—linked to production...