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Washington, D.C.

Capital city of the United States of America

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Dec 8, 2025
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What claims did Deutsche Bank and other lenders have across Trump Organization bankruptcies and settlements?

Deutsche Bank was the Trump Organization’s largest lender for years, holding roughly $340 million in outstanding loans at the time it moved to cut ties, and at different points carried or refinanced l...

Dec 2, 2025
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how many homes does bernie sanders own

Bernie Sanders and his wife own three properties: a primary home in Burlington, Vermont; a Washington, D.C. rowhouse; and a lakefront seasonal home in North Hero, Vermont purchased in 2023 for about $...

Nov 19, 2025
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What is 400% of the 2025 poverty level

400% of the 2025 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) depends on household size and state; for the 48 contiguous states and D.C., the 2025 guideline lists the 100% FPL for a one‑person household as $15,650, so...

Dec 9, 2025

How did Ilhan Omar accumulate her personal wealth?

Congressional financial disclosures filed in May 2025 show Rep. Ilhan Omar and her husband Tim Mynett reported household assets that place their combined net worth somewhere between $6 million and $30...

Dec 14, 2025

Do ICE agents have high rate of criminal records?

ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...

Dec 8, 2025

What is Ihan Omar’s net worth?

Ilhan Omar’s reported household net worth appears in public filings as a broad range: between $6 million and $30 million at the end of 2024, with news coverage in 2025 highlighting the upper-end figur...

Jan 15, 2026

Which US states and localities have the highest numbers of ICE arrests and removals recently?

Federal dashboards and independent trackers show that the largest absolute volumes of ICE interior arrests in recent months have clustered in the nation’s biggest population and immigration hubs — not...

Dec 14, 2025

Do ice agents have more criminal records against them than the immigrants they arrest

Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...

Oct 6, 2025

how many federal officers were in the crowd on January 6th

The publicly documented counts do not produce a single definitive total for Available official and reporting records establish that hundreds of local D.C. officers were engaged at the Capitol, the FBI...

Dec 11, 2025

What is the political leaning of thehill compared with other major US outlets?

The Hill is widely characterized by media-watchers as relatively centrist or minimally biased compared with major U.S. outlets: Media Bias/Fact Check lists it as "Least Biased" and "Mostly Factual" , ...

Jan 14, 2026

Trump’s criminal record

Donald J. Trump has been the subject of multiple criminal prosecutions beginning in 2023 and was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York in May 2024 for falsifying business records related to allege...

Jan 11, 2026

How do US states differ in their laws regarding pornography production and distribution?

States differ sharply in how they regulate pornography because federal law draws clear lines around child pornography and interstate distribution of “obscenity,” while most day-to-day content regulati...

Nov 22, 2025

Has crime in the US gone down since Trump

Available reporting shows violent crime and homicides that rose around 2020–2021 have fallen in 2023–2025, with several city- and national-level data series recording substantial declines (examples: m...

Dec 8, 2025

Is "The Hill" a left or right Publication

The Hill is widely described by media‑watchers and the outlet itself as centrist or nonpartisan, with multiple independent assessments rating it “least biased” or “neutral/balanced” while some tracker...

Oct 14, 2025

How does the 2025 murder rate in Washington D.C. compare to the national average?

The available 2025 data indicate , with multiple local reports citing declines of roughly 19–25% and absolute homicide counts near the mid‑double digits, while national measures also show . Comparing ...

Dec 5, 2025

What supeonas did trump ignore during his first term

President Trump’s first term featured widespread refusal to comply with congressional information requests; reporting and legal summaries say his administration resisted or ignored subpoenas in “over ...

Jan 18, 2026

Have any Minneapolis police officers resigned in last week

No reputable reporting in the assembled sources confirms that Minneapolis Police Department officers resigned "in the last week"; the verifiable wave of departures cited across outlets refers to feder...

Jan 12, 2026

How many died inside the capital Jan 6

The headline answer is this: official contemporaneous counts reported four people dead on January 6, 2021, with several additional law-enforcement officers dying in the days, weeks and months afterwar...

Nov 14, 2025

did Turning point fund J6 resurectionists?

Available reporting establishes that Turning Point Action (the political arm of Turning Point USA) was listed as a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021 “Stop the Steal”/“March to Save America” rally and he...

Nov 24, 2025

is trump considered a dictator and why

Debate over whether Donald Trump is “a dictator” is active in U.S. and international media: critics point to a large number of executive orders, Project 2025 planning and moves they call “power grabs,...