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City and county seat of Cook County, and largest city in State of Illinois, United States of America
Multiple reputable fact‑checks and primary biographies reject the claim that Michelle Obama is a man named Michael Robinson: Full Fact and AFP say the “Michael/Michelle” story is false and based on al...
Since 2024, ICE activity under the Trump administration has shown a clear geographic and tactical split: in Republican-led states and jurisdictions federal enforcement has leaned on arrests inside det...
Deutsche Bank was the Trump Organization’s largest lender for years, holding roughly $340 million in outstanding loans at the time it moved to cut ties, and at different points carried or refinanced l...
A family says an ICE/CBP vehicle sprayed a 1-year-old and her parents during a Nov. 2025 operation in the Chicago area after federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement; the Department of H...
Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
Reporting in 2025 shows multiple outlets and research groups saying ICE was given numerical arrest targets that led to a big increase in interior arrests — examples include reports of instructions for...
Charlie Kirk was raised in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights by parents often identified as Robert (father) and Kathryn/Kimberly (mother); reporting describes his father as an architect and poli...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
Available reporting in the provided dataset does not identify a single location where a *majority* of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are currently situated; instead, the materia...
Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...
Reporting on the Chicago protests against ICE and “Operation Midway Blitz” does not identify any organized program that is paying “agitators” to protest, nor does it provide evidence of standard wages...
Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
Available reporting shows violent crime and homicides that rose around 2020–2021 have fallen in 2023–2025, with several city- and national-level data series recording substantial declines (examples: m...
Viral claims that Barack Obama calls Michelle “Michael” or that Michelle Obama was born “Michael” are false; multiple fact-checks show clips were cropped or miscontextualized and no credible evidence ...
Erika (also spelled Erica) Kirk is a public figure tied to conservative activism and multiple charitable mentions; fact-checking shows she was linked to a Romanian sponsorship project for an orphanage...
The available documentation shows a : federal judges have found and limited unlawful ICE arrests in multiple cases, while ICE’s published policies assert formal detention and oversight procedures. Hig...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been directly or indirectly associated with multiple deaths in 2025: at least and several incidents involving lethal force tied to ICE operations or ...
The core claims are that ICE received well over 140,000 applications after a 2025 recruitment push, extended roughly 18,000 tentative offers, and is using financial incentives and marketing to expand ...