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The basic academy for many new ICE frontline officers was sharply shortened in 2025 to a roughly six- to eight-week program that ICE and oversight reporting describe as amounting to about 47 days of i...
The precise number of ICE agents who identify as Black is not published in a single, up‑to‑date official table, but contemporary reporting and academic estimates place Black representation in ICE in t...
The Hill is widely characterized by media-watchers as relatively centrist or minimally biased compared with major U.S. outlets: Media Bias/Fact Check lists it as "Least Biased" and "Mostly Factual" , ...
The Hill is widely described by media‑watchers and the outlet itself as centrist or nonpartisan, with multiple independent assessments rating it “least biased” or “neutral/balanced” while some tracker...
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‑...
Allegations that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied” about COVID‑19 cluster around three themes: statements on masks and herd immunity, funding/oversight of Wuhan research and “gain‑of‑function,” and claims abou...
Available reporting shows repeated accusations — from federal officials, conservative commentators and viral social posts — that protesters in Minnesota were being paid to riot, but independent fact‑c...
Steve Bannon explicitly said words to the effect that “some in this room are going to prison — myself included” during a November 7, 2025 speech to a Conservative Partnership Academy/Bellator Awards e...
A Senate-brokered deal in mid-November 2025 set the path to end the 43‑day shutdown by passing a short-term funding bill and promising a December Senate vote on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) pre...
Recent changes to ICE onboarding under the Trump administration dramatically accelerated hiring and compressed parts of training, drawing scrutiny from lawmakers, FLETC and local police leaders; defen...
The publicly available recording of the congressional hearing that featured a notable exchange between Senator John Kennedy and Representative Ilhan Omar is posted on the Library of Congress Congress....
The Department of Homeland Security accelerated the onboarding of thousands of new ICE officers in 2025 by compressing residential academy time—variously reported as cuts from roughly 13–16 weeks down...
Civil suits by Epstein survivors against Ghislaine Maxwell and related entities unfolded over many years: high-profile civil filings (including Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 suit) prompted coordinated publi...
Multiple contemporary accounts disagree on who first used the phrase and when, but the preponderance of available reporting attributes the phrase to President Donald Trump in late 2024 or early 2025. ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson placed the House on an indefinite hiatus amid the 2025 government shutdown, a move widely reported as effectively sending many House Republicans home; critics say this sidel...
The 2025–2026 ICE recruitment campaign produced a rapid, large-scale expansion — roughly 11,700–12,000 new hires that more than doubled the agency’s enforcement ranks in under a year — by running an a...
DHS and ICE report a historic, rapid expansion—12,000 hires in under a year and more than doubling ICE’s workforce—claiming accelerated deployments and maintained training standards . Independent over...
The 2025–26 ICE hiring surge more than doubled the agency’s workforce to roughly 22,000, putting thousands of newly sworn officers into field operations almost immediately . That expansion has already...
No credible reporting in the provided sources says Speaker Mike Johnson married one of his daughters; all profiles and local reporting describe him as married to Kelly (née Lary) since 1999 and the fa...
Some evangelical leaders have publicly pulled back from Donald Trump: reporting shows a visible—but limited—trend of pastors and clergy “quietly quitting” MAGA and withholding endorsements, driven by ...