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The short answer: President Trump has claimed repeatedly to have “ended” six, seven or eight wars, but independent reporting and fact-checkers conclude that his count is exaggerated and imprecise — so...
China is now the dominant buyer of Venezuelan oil, taking roughly 80% of exports in recent months (about 746,000 bpd in November) and absorbing large volumes of fuel oil and methanol as well (136,000 ...
Coverage in the supplied documents shows multiple members of Congress publicly demanding resignations in 2025—primarily of Trump administration officials rather than President Trump himself—and at lea...
The temporary “enhanced” Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the ARPA/IRA-era increases that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and reduced required househo...
The United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast in early December 2025, an action Washington says targeted a vessel used to move sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian crude; Venezue...
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...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
U.S. law enforcement and multiple U.S. agencies have formally accused Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials of directing large-scale drug trafficking and narco‑terrorism, and the U.S. has offere...
At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
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...
Microsoft’s corporate headquarters is located on a large campus in Redmond, Washington commonly referenced by the address One (or 1) Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052; this is the address used by Micro...
Hugo Chávez led large, formal nationalizations across oil, banking, steel, cement, fertilizer and large tracts of agricultural and urban land—culminating in state operational control of the Orinoco oi...
A highly publicized allegation that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. watched and encouraged the rape of a woman in a Washington hotel room originates from notes and summaries in FBI files and was publicized...
Minnesota hosts by far the largest Somali community in the United States—estimates in recent reporting put the state’s Somali population between roughly 64,000 and 107,000, with multiple outlets citin...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
Three days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howie (Howard) Liebengood died by suicide, and subsequent reporting and official rulings have linked additi...
Recent 2025 estimates consistently place at the top for numbers of undocumented immigrants, with a commonly cited ranking listing California first (about ), followed by Texas and Florida, then New Jer...
The core legal disputes between the United States and Venezuela over oil and other resources center on historical nationalizations and investor arbitration, U.S. sanctions and maritime interdictions o...
The central claim — that — is unsupported by available reporting and appears demonstrably false based on contemporaneous coverage and expert commentary. Multiple contemporaneous pieces instead report ...
Washington has changed long-standing practice: the state repealed the sales-tax exemption for precious metal bullion and monetized bullion in 2025, and beginning Jan. 1, 2026 those private sales will ...