Your fact-checks will appear here
Country in Southeast Europe
There is a straightforward but nuanced answer: yes—paid protesters exist in specific, documented cases and commercial services sometimes organize compensated participants—but sweeping claims that most...
European governments and the UK have continued to impose and renew sanctions on Russia through 2025 even as the Trump administration has shifted U.S. policy and at times failed to join or actively coo...
Available reporting shows two different snapshots of U.S. troop levels in Europe: government and think‑tank tallies put the force at roughly 65,000–85,000 service members in early–mid 2025, while news...
Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
Most clinical and consumer sources say penile growth follows puberty and is essentially finished by the late teens to early twenties: commonly cited ranges are “by 18–19” (Healthline) and “by the late...
Official and investigative reporting indicates that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in roughly two decades, with mainstream outlets and...
A small number of democratic legal systems have judicially recognized pornography as a form of protected expression under constitutional or fundamental‑rights law, but those protections are routinely ...
Melania Trump built a transatlantic modeling résumé before her 2005 marriage, beginning work at 16, reaching the Look of the Year finals in 1992, and working through Paris and Milan agencies before mo...
Countries with the for transgender rights in recent coverage are primarily in the European Union, where a September 2025 Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) opinion pushed member states towa...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) will collect from non‑EU nationals in the majority of Schengen and EU countries when it starts operations on 12 October 2025, with progressive roll‑out completing by April ...
European headline figures from a 2024 EU gender‑based violence survey show of women in the EU‑27 reporting lifetime experiences of physical violence or threats and/or sexual violence, with (57.1% in F...
resigned chiefly as a political calculation amid a prolonged domestic crisis: and the collapse of the governing coalition created an opening for him to enter parliamentary politics, likely by forming ...
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 after a cascade of mass protests, negotiated transfers of power, and political openings that began in Poland and spread across the region; key pro...
The data sets attached present conflicting claims about which European countries had the , with the EU survey listing Finland and Bulgaria at opposite ends while other analyses single out the UK, Swed...
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) is reported in the available analyses as a multi-national communion with , and its official site offers an active “Find a Church” directory rather...
and broader are concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe, with countries such as and several middle‑income post‑communist states recording the highest age‑standardised death rates; authoritative rev...
Post‑communist Eastern Europe experienced in the decades after 1989, with documented scandals and systemic flows of children for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and related abuses across countries ...
Bulgaria’s political scene in October 2025 is characterized by a contested governing coalition and public accusations of institutional paralysis by President Rumen Radev, while key political actors pu...
A recurrent theme across centuries is the , exile or coerced assimilation of Muslim populations amid conquests, nation‑building and religious intolerance; prominent episodes include the medieval and t...
A small but growing body of human epidemiology, tissue‑level gene‑expression work, and mechanistic reviews test the "prostate stagnation" idea—that ejaculations might flush xenobiotics or carcinogenic...