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Former President Barack Obama ordered multiple military strikes and sustained air campaigns without new, specific congressional authorizations — notably interventions in Libya and expanded airstrikes ...
Published reporting and genealogical profiles describe Erika Kirk (born Erika Lane Frantzve) as having a mixed European and Middle Eastern background: sources say her father is of Swedish descent and ...
No credible reporting in the supplied sources shows the UK or the EU have imposed sanctions on the United States; available sources instead document coordinated Western sanctions primarily targeting R...
Edgar Cayce (often styled “The Sleeping Prophet”) made many broadly framed predictions about geophysical change, world power shifts, and spiritual evolution; advocates and institutions preserving his ...
The Trump administration repeatedly asserted it had “ended eight wars,” a claim widely reported and repeatedly fact-checked as exaggerated; press outlets document that he cited a mix of ceasefires, di...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration conducted U.S. airstrikes and drone strikes across at least seven countries, with the most-cited list including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia...
Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
President Obama did not routinely seek new, specific congressional authorizations for the wide-ranging drone and airstrike campaigns of his presidency; his administration primarily relied on the post‑...
Barack Obama authorized large numbers of air and drone strikes overseas without seeking a new, specific Act of Congress; his administration relied on earlier congressional authorizations—most prominen...
Available reporting describes Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) as born November 20, 1988, raised in a Catholic family in Arizona by her mother after her parents’ divorce, and of mixed European and Middle Eas...
Claims that “Russia has invaded 19 countries in the last 100 years” are not directly confirmed by the available sources; reporting and scholarly lists document many Soviet and Russian interventions an...
Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
Estimates of deaths tied to the Afghanistan wars since 2001 vary widely by category and source: Brown University’s Costs of War project counts more than 940,000 direct deaths across five post‑9/11 the...
In 47 BC Julius Caesar was the dominant Roman leader, campaigning in Egypt and Asia and consolidating power at Rome; he relieved the Siege of Alexandria, fought the Battle of the Nile with Cleopatra’s...
Barack Obama inherited two large-scale U.S. wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and during his presidency the United States was engaged militarily in at least five overseas conflicts — Afghanistan, Iraq (incl...
A broad set of commentators and outlets in 2024–2025 describe elevated global tensions that create plausible pathways to a large interstate war, but authoritative analysts and some reporting stress th...
Genetic studies consistently show that modern Palestinians cluster genetically with other Levantine populations (Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians) and share substantial ancestry with Bronze‑ and Iron‑Age...
Multiple Biden-era strikes were carried out without a new, specific congressional authorization: the administration notified Congress of some strikes but did not seek pre‑authorization for actions suc...
Available reporting and studies in the provided sources do not give a single, definitive death‑rate comparison of "religious violence" between Muslims and Christians; instead they offer disparate metr...
Counting "U.S. military strikes" under any president depends on definitions (airstrikes, counterterrorism operations, single strikes vs. campaigns) and reporters’ cutoffs; available sources document m...