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Donald Trump has not publicly identified himself as Jewish and available reporting describes him as raised Presbyterian and of German/Scottish family background; multiple fact-check and history pieces...
Available public reporting based on the 2021 census and 2025 summaries puts the UK Muslim share at roughly 6% of the overall population (Britain-wide), with England specifically around 6.7% and Scotla...
Donald Trump’s closest ancestors immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (often spelled Friedrich Trump) arrived from Germany in 1...
traces to y); , — commonly dated to October 7, 1885 — as a 16‑year‑old immigrant . The family also includes on the maternal side: , was born in Scotland and became an American citizen in 1942 . The wi...
Executive summary President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips have been repeatedly described as costing taxpayers , with local security bills alone reaching about $240,000 per day and some single trips topping...
Available reporting does not provide a single, clear national figure for “how many people in hospital with the flu had the flu vaccine” in the UK; instead, early UKHSA and media analyses report vaccin...
Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod (also spelled Macleod), was an immigrant from Scotland; multiple historical profiles describe her arrival and naturalization and do not support a clear finding...
J.K. Rowling’s public statements about transgender people span at least from December 2019 through 2025 and include tweets, a long blog post on her own site, repeated social‑media posts on X (formerly...
Primary sources and modern reporting show Mary Anne MacLeod immigrated from Scotland in 1929–1930, declared intent to naturalize, and did not become a U.S. citizen until March 10, 1942 — nearly four y...
Donald Trump’s golf-related taxpayer costs are reported in a wide range across sources, with recent estimates for individual trips from about $3 million to nearly $16 million and cumulative tallies va...
Junior (resident) doctors in the UK are paid on structured NHS scales that vary by training grade, location and extra “enhancements” for nights, weekends and on‑call; basic pay for junior doctors rang...
Mary Anne MacLeod immigrated from Scotland to New York in 1930 and became a U.S. citizen in March 1942; contemporary reporting and document-based accounts find no evidence she lived in the United Stat...
Scotland’s HMNB Clyde (Faslane) is the Royal Navy’s principal base for nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines and hosts the facilities that support the UK’s Trident deterrent, including the near...
The UK’s Muslim population rose from about 1.6 million in 2001 to roughly 4.0 million in 2021, making Muslims about 6% of the overall UK population according to the Muslim Council of Britain’s census ...
is an American national by birth: he was born in , on June 14, 1946, and official White House and historical biographies state his birthplace and parentage . His family background is of and Scottish d...
The proportion of the UK population that is depends on the dataset and geography referenced: the 2021 Census figures imply roughly with UK-wide estimates varying by nation, while some analyses and pro...
The available analyses agree that , with Birmingham, parts of Greater London (notably Tower Hamlets and Newham), Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, Luton and Blackburn with Darwen among the places repea...
The available reporting shows scant concrete evidence that Donald Trump has Jewish ancestry: mainstream genealogical accounts trace his paternal line to Lutheran Germans from Kallstadt and his mother ...
President Trump has repeatedly said he banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar‑a‑Lago for poaching spa employees — a claim he restated publicly in July 2025 while speaking to reporters in Scotland (see Trump’...
The best available 2021-census–based estimates put the Muslim population in England and Wales at roughly 4.0 million people, which various analysts translate into depending on the geographic denominat...