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Sovereign state in Central America
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s actions and Adolf Hitler’s rise before World War II surface repeatedly in recent commentary and scholarship, with analysts pointing to overlapping tactics—nationalis...
Different compilations of 2024-era data point to very different “highest” and “lowest” rape‑per‑capita rankings because national legal definitions, reporting practices and recent law changes make dire...
Presidents have repeatedly deployed U.S. forces abroad without a specific new congressional authorization since the War Powers Resolution (WPR) of 1973, relying on , and then notifying Congress under ...
Presidents have repeatedly sent U.S. forces, including Marines, into combat or combat-like operations without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; Justice Department and congressional-histor...
Canada ranks highly on many global measures — for example it tied for #1 in the Country RepTrak/“Most Loved Country” sentiment survey and sits near the top of reputation and freedom rankings — yet it ...
ICE and related agencies did carry out removals in 2025 that included people who had sought asylum or held refugee-related claims, but precise counts of remain contested because public datasets are in...
A growing number of countries now collect fingerprints from arriving foreign travelers, most prominently the 29 Schengen/European countries implementing the Entry/Exit System (EES), plus a patchwork o...
Most presidents since the War Powers Resolution’s passage in 1973 have resisted or tested it; Congress passed the law over President Richard Nixon’s veto in 1973 . Major modern presidents — including ...
Most reporting and government analyses say cocaine from South America reaches the United States through a handful of maritime corridors: the eastern Pacific corridor up the Pacific coast through Centr...
Most recent reporting and studies repeatedly list a small, overlapping set of countries — Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and several South American nations (notably Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Parag...
Drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea concentrates along maritime corridors connecting South American production zones and Central American transits to consumer markets in North America and Europe, with...
publicly states it adheres to a strict but also says it will comply with delivered under applicable laws and jurisdictions, because the company operates under law . That position means NordVPN claims ...
Courts and government agencies can compel ISPs and VPN providers to disclose user data through subpoenas, search warrants and other orders — sometimes sealed or accompanied by gag orders — and through...
A sitting foreign head of state ordinarily enjoys (immunity ratione personae) from criminal arrest and prosecution by other states under customary international law, a principle reaffirmed by the in t...
Several national laws and regulatory moves have forced into difficult choices: comply with retention and registration regimes (notably and ) or withdraw and redesign services; major VPN firms have res...
The United States has long alleged that Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials led a transnational criminal enterprise responsible for large-scale drug trafficking, narco‑terrorism, money‑launder...
Major VPN providers vary widely in what they publish, how often, and how granularly: some (, , , , , and others) publish regular that enumerate legal requests and explain outcomes, while others publis...
The in the United States is a multi‑agency operation that spans federal law enforcement, , diplomatic channels, detention contractors, and non‑governmental actors who provide legal aid or track remova...
n and governments still grant formal diplomatic recognition; the remaining defenders include , , , and several Caribbean microstates, while the overwhelming majority of the region now recognizes the (...
The Madrid Charter is a 2020 manifesto produced by the Disenso Foundation linked to Spain’s Vox party that frames a transatlantic struggle against what it calls a resurgent “communist” threat in Ibero...