did venezuela steal oil from us
The United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast in early December 2025, an action Washington says targeted a vessel used to move sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian crude; Venezue...
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The United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast in early December 2025, an action Washington says targeted a vessel used to move sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian crude; Venezue...
Venezuelan oil is simultaneously "good" and "problematic": the country sits on some of the world's largest crude reserves, but most of that resource is extra‑heavy, technically demanding to produce an...
The reporting on Nick Fuentes’ parents converges on two consistent points: several independent pieces identify his parents as , and available accounts do not supply firm, long‑term professional titles...
Socialism has shown measurable successes in varied forms and moments — primarily as social democracy and municipal socialism that blended markets with strong public welfare — but its record is mixed w...
The claim that Venezuela “emptied their prisons and mental hospitals of violent criminals” and sent them to the United States is and relies on anecdote, speculation, or single-source reporting rather ...
Available reporting tallies at least four migrants who died in U.S. immigration custody in the first ten days of 2026 and at least four people killed in shootings by federal immigration agents during ...
As of 2025, five states continue to operate under that their governments describe with communist or socialist terminology: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Other countries contain constitu...
There is no authoritative record that Venezuela "stole" property belonging to the United States as a sovereign act; instead the clearest, documented confrontations over property involve Venezuela’s 20...
Claims that “President Joe Biden shipped in immigrants” refer to a mix of official parole programs that allowed people to fly directly to U.S. airports under eligibility rules and partisan accusations...
Claims that foreign governments “emptied out” prisons and shipped inmates into the United States are not supported by independent reporting or public evidence as a broad, systematic practice; fact‑che...
Current lists of “socialist” or “communist” countries mix constitutional language, ruling-party ideology, and economic practice, producing inconsistent inventories. The primary claims in provided anal...
Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...
Federal rules bar undocumented immigrants from receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, but , and changes in 2025 affected which immigrant categories qualify. Multiple anal...
Official U.S. investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963; the Warren Commission and later federal inquiri...
A small but persistent minority of members of Congress were born outside the present-day United States; counts vary by methodology but recent authoritative tallies show a handful of naturalized lawmak...
The Congressional Research Service counted 27 Representatives and 5 Senators — a total of 32 members of the 118th Congress — who were born outside the United States, representing 5.9% of the chamber’s...
Caribbean routes remain active but heterogeneous: recent UNODC and reporting show Haiti, the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos corridor, the Lesser Antilles (including Dominica and the French Antilles), and Br...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
Pete Hegseth served in the Army National Guard and deployed three times after 9/11: to Guantánamo Bay (Cuba), to Iraq (including Baghdad and Samarra with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne), and to Afgha...
Operation Northwoods was a 1962 menu of proposed false‑flag actions drafted within the Department of Defense/Joint Chiefs of Staff that recommended staging or fabricating attacks and incidents to crea...