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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 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...
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...
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" , ...
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...
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‑...
There is no reporting among the provided sources that met with other s specifically to gather support to block “Trump’s bid for more IVE funding”; the documents show McConnell both meeting with Republ...
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...
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 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....
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 recruitment campaign produced an unprecedented surge in staffing—ICE and reports put new hires in the neighborhood of 11,700–12,000 officers, agents, investigators, attorneys and mission‑support s...
Since 2017 reporting and internal documents show ’s basic training for deportation/enforcement officers has been compressed from multi-month courses that included dedicated language instruction to muc...
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...
After a string of high-profile deadly encounters and a hiring surge that more than doubled ’s workforce in 2025, the agency and pointed to existing and expanded training pathways — notably an amended ...
Current reporting indicates the typical time between hiring and completion of ’s core academy training has been compressed from roughly five months under earlier standards to about (with 47 days frequ...
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...
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...
The DHS Office of Inspector General has opened oversight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rapid 2025 hiring and training push but has not released a public report that reaches final conclusion...