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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...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard after graduating Princeton in 2003 and served in multiple deployments; reporting and official biographies indicate he ro...
Contemporary reporting and institutional biographies consistently identify Pete Hegseth as having reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard (Britannica; UANI; The Atlantic) . Official Defen...
Available reporting and analyses indicate that most sources identify right-wing or far-right actors as responsible for the bulk of politically motivated, extremist violence in and around 2024; multipl...
Multiple reputable fact‑checking outlets have investigated and debunked the viral claim that Michelle Obama is actually a man named “Michael Robinson”; Full Fact explicitly labels the story false and ...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer via Princeton’s ROTC in 2003 and served in the Army National Guard with active-duty deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan; he rose to...
There are at least two prominent figures named Dave (or David) Van Zandt in current reporting: David E. Van Zandt, an attorney, legal scholar and long‑time academic leader who served as dean of Northw...
Both parties engage in mid‑decade and decennial mapmaking to gain advantage: Republicans have driven a larger share of the maps this decade and, according to the Brennan Center, gerrymandering likely ...
Scholarly and advocacy analyses conclude that Republicans have held the bigger gerrymandering advantage in recent congressional cycles, driven by aggressive mapmaking in Southern and Midwestern GOP st...
Pete Hegseth’s public biography and interviews present him as an Army National Guard infantry officer who served in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, rose to the rank of major, and received combat...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard, deployed to Guantánamo Bay (2004–05), to Baghdad with the 3rd Brigade/101st Airborne (2005–06) as an infantry platoon leader...
The NCAA’s current policy (effective Feb. 6, 2025) opens men’s sports to “all eligible student‑athletes” regardless of sex assigned at birth while restricting competition in women’s sports to those as...
Reporting and released documents show Jeffrey Epstein and his foundation funded science and university programs at several major institutions; Harvard accepted about $9 million from Epstein between 19...
The assembled analyses identify a recurring set of individual names——as among the largest U.S. donors to pro‑Israel organizations, but the claims vary sharply by source, methodology and timing, produc...
Political violence in the United States has risen markedly since 2016 and experts say 2024–25 represent the sharpest surge in decades, with some datasets showing roughly 300 cases between the January ...
Available reporting shows no credible legal records or documents linking Michelle Obama to the name “Michael Robinson”; multiple fact‑checks and news analyses trace the claim to satirical or doctored ...
Pete Hegseth reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard and was placed in the Individual Ready Reserve after that promotion; multiple profiles say he was promoted to major around 2014–2015 (...
Jerome “Jay” Powell moved from law into investment banking and then into the Treasury, where a personal-professional tie to Nicholas Brady — his former Dillon, Read chairman who became Treasury secret...
Reporting based on the available sources shows several Charlie Kirk tweets and social-media moments from 2022 that drew sharp criticism — most prominently his March 2022 tweet about Rachel Levine that...
Louis Pasteur’s original laboratory notebooks and personal papers were largely kept in private hands until Pasteur’s grandson, Pasteur Vallery-Radot, donated them to France’s national library in 1964,...