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Analyses published in mid–late 2025 estimate that the Trump family has taken in billions while in the presidency — the New Yorker’s tally (reported elsewhere) and follow-ups put the figure around $3.4...
Estimates of how much the Trump family has made “directly tied to his presidency” range from tens of millions to several billion dollars depending on which ventures and timeframes are counted: a New Y...
Multiple news outlets report that men identified by the Pentagon as U.S. Department of Defense contractors — not active-duty troops — landed by boat at Playa Bagdad in northeast Mexico on Nov. 17 and ...
The simple claim that “America was once owned by England and Spain” is misleading: of what is now the Americas were claimed, colonized, and governed at various times by Spain and by England (later Gre...
Multiple investigations, sanctions and reporting link the UAE to financial, logistical and commercial ties that benefited Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), including U.S. sanctions on RSF-linked bus...
Available reporting shows multiple strands of concern about Jared Kushner’s past contacts and business ties with Russian-linked figures and entities, but no single source in the provided set says he h...
Conservative defenses of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship stress hard security returns—military cooperation, intelligence-sharing, and regional deterrence—alongside shared political values and d...
The $1.7 billion cash transfer in January–February 2016 was formally a settlement of a decades‑old Iran‑U.S. claims tribunal case and was timed alongside the release of detained Americans, a linkage t...
Yes — long before Nicolás Maduro’s rule, U.S. oil companies were heavily invested in Venezuela: American majors dominated early 20th‑century development, suffered large‑scale expropriations at nationa...
The Abraham Accords were a set of U.S.-brokered normalization agreements by which Israel established formal diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and (to varying degrees) Sud...
Documented contacts between Obama administration officials and individuals or members linked to the Muslim Brotherhood occurred at multiple points between 2009–2016, described in academic, policy and ...
Claims that a handful of families “control” global politics and finance rest on two observable facts: a small set of dynastic families hold vast measurable wealth—Bloomberg lists Waltons at $432.4 bil...
Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) providers Tabby and Tamara dominate Gulf e‑commerce growth, with Tabby offering 4 interest‑free instalments and large merchant partnerships, and Tamara expanding aggressively ...
Scammers regularly impersonate UAE royals to run both romance cons and financial frauds: social-media “giveaway” and fake-investment posts using images of Dubai’s ruling family have been documented, a...
Big companies have been moving parts of their operations—manufacturing, headquarters, and new facilities—back to the United States or to North America in recent years, driven by supply‑chain risk mana...
Counting "allies" for Israel depends on definition: as of January 2026, 166 of the 192 other UN member states formally recognize Israel as a sovereign state—about 86% of UN members—which is a useful b...
Estimates vary because “Arab” and “Middle East” are defined differently by different institutions; the available reporting places the population of the Arab world in the mid‑hundreds of millions (roug...
The Abraham Accords reshaped regional diplomacy but did not restrain Israeli settlement expansion or settler violence between 2020 and 2024; if anything, normalization coincided with continued and in ...
Christian leaders in the Middle East are divided: a visible current of evangelical Christian Zionist alignment welcomes Trump’s pro‑Israel, transactional diplomacy and nominations of allied figures, w...
Illicit networks in southern Venezuela have turned coltan and other rare earth-bearing ores into a transnational commodity by combining armed-group control of extraction sites, riverine smuggling corr...