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Dec 3, 2025
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What drugs are coming out of Venezuela?

Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...

Dec 3, 2025
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What maritime routes do Venezuelan drug traffickers use to reach the United States?

Venezuelan-linked traffickers have been implicated in maritime flows across both the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, using coastal hubs like Sucre and Margarita Island and routes toward the Eastern Car...

Dec 12, 2025
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weather predictions for december 2025 and january

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and reporting summarize the 2025–26 winter outlook as favoring above‑normal temperatures across much of the U.S. East, Southeast, Gulf Coast, Texas, Southwest and Cali...

Dec 7, 2025

How do drug traffickers move shipments from Venezuela through the Caribbean to reach US ports and coasts?

Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...

Dec 21, 2025

is baby no money retiring

bbno$ (aka Baby No Money) is almost certainly not permanently retiring from music; the viral “I’m quitting” post appears tied to a TikTok dare and to his ongoing internet‑first persona, while contempo...

Dec 16, 2025

venezuela drug trafficking

Venezuela is widely described by analysts and governments as a transit state for cocaine rather than a primary producer of fentanyl, and U.S. policy in 2025 centered on lethal maritime strikes and thr...

Nov 23, 2025

How has the global percentage of European descent population changed since 2000?

Global estimates in recent reporting place people of predominantly European descent at roughly 14–16% of the world population in 2024–2025, and some specialist counts say “about 14%” worldwide in 2024...

Dec 5, 2025

Have there been any giant skeletons found.

Reports of “giant” human skeletons have circulated for centuries, but mainstream archaeology and expert fact-checking find no verified evidence of a lost race of multi‑meter giants; many sensational 1...

Dec 9, 2025

What evidence supports the claim that Russians planned plane explosions en route to the USA from Europe?

Western and European intelligence agencies publicly tied a series of incendiary parcel incidents and arrests in 2024 to a suspected Russian sabotage campaign that tested methods for placing explosives...

Dec 4, 2025

How has Venezuela's economy influenced drug production and trafficking?

Venezuela’s economic collapse, sanctions on oil, and weakening state institutions have turned large swathes of the country into permissive terrain for illicit economies, making it a major transit hub ...

Nov 28, 2025

The US has more knife homicide rates than most countries

Available sources show that in the United States most homicides are committed with firearms, not knives: firearms account for roughly 76–80% of U.S. homicides in recent reporting, while knife or sharp...

Dec 20, 2025

Have archaeologists ever discovered human skeletons unusually large for their time?

Archaeologists have on occasion uncovered human skeletons that are unusually large relative to contemporaneous populations, but confirmed examples are rare and usually have scientific explanations suc...

Nov 3, 2025

What Frederick Trump before it was changed to Trump

Frederick Trump’s original family name appears in historical accounts as (with variants like Trumpf/Drumpft), and he was born in Germany as before immigrating to North America; multiple sources agree ...

Dec 8, 2025

Has Nestle faced legal challenges over water access being a human right?

Nestlé has repeatedly been the target of lawsuits, government orders and public campaigns over its water extraction and bottled‑water practices — including California cease‑and‑desist actions, contest...

Dec 7, 2025

How did Jordan Peterson describe the timeline of his addiction and withdrawal symptoms since 2019?

Jordan Peterson and his family say his serious problems began around 2019 when he attempted to stop taking the benzodiazepine clonazepam and experienced severe withdrawal that led to hospitalization a...

Nov 18, 2025

How does the US rank in global freedom indices compared to other countries?

The United States ranks in the upper-middle tier on broad, multi-dimensional freedom measures but performs unevenly across different indices: it is tied 17th on the Human Freedom Index (out of ~165 ju...

Dec 1, 2025

How do US knife homicide rates compare to other high-income countries by per capita measurements?

The United States records roughly 1,500 knife homicides per year, meaning knife killings are a minority of U.S. homicides while firearms dominate U.S. lethal violence — firearms account for about 79–8...

Jan 1, 2026

Which US companies have recently moved operations to Canada and why?

A small but visible set of U.S. companies and U.S.-based operations have shifted parts of their business to Canada in recent years, driven largely by talent and immigration pathways, regulatory and ta...

Nov 27, 2025

Did America's forefathers say muslims won't assimilate

There is no evidence in the provided reporting that “America’s forefathers” issued a blanket statement that Muslims “won’t assimilate.” On the contrary, multiple historians and primary-document summar...

Nov 3, 2025

What is the demographic breakdown of Candace Owens' followers on social media, and how does it relate to her conspiracy theories' impact?

Candace Owens commands a large and active social-media audience — multiple millions of followers across Instagram, X and YouTube — but of her social-media followers. The evidence shows pockets of audi...