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Nov 22, 2025
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How many legal cases has the Trump administration lost

Available trackers and reporting show hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration in 2025 — estimates range from roughly 186 adjudicated-or-pending suits in some snapshots to...

Jan 19, 2026
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What companies produce lab-grown meat sold in US stores?

The short answer is: none — no company is currently selling lab-grown (cultivated) meat in U.S. grocery stores; two California firms, Upside Foods and GOOD Meat, are the only companies that have recei...

Nov 25, 2025
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is donald trump racist

Public reporting and advocacy groups document a long record of complaints, incidents and statements that critics describe as racist, including a 1970s federal housing suit, high-profile comments about...

Jan 31, 2026

Which birth certificate details confirm Michelle Obama's birthplace and birth name?

The official long-form and short-form birth-certificate images released by record ’s birth name as "Michelle LaVaughn Robinson" and her place of birth as , which align with biographies and archival de...

Nov 30, 2025

why cant i get unbiased news from ap news

You can’t get “purely unbiased” reporting from AP News because independent bias auditors disagree about AP’s political tilt — ratings range from “Center/neutral” (Ad Fontes) to “Lean Left/Left” (AllSi...

Nov 26, 2025

What major policies did Barack Obama implement that directly targeted racial disparities?

Barack Obama enacted a mix of race-neutral and race-conscious measures that his supporters say reduced specific disparities (for example, the Fair Sentencing Act’s reduction of the crack/powder cocain...

Nov 6, 2025

How many lawsuits have been filed against Trump during his presidency?

Donald Trump’s presidency produced hundreds of legal challenges to federal actions and far more than a single, simple tally can capture; authoritative trackers count and dozens more multistate or stat...

Dec 16, 2025

Are there upcoming film, music, or philanthropic plans for barbra streisand in 2026 following any 2025 announcements?

Barbra Streisand announced a new duets album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two, to be released June 27, 2025, with high‑profile collaborators including Hozier, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Arian...

Nov 21, 2025

Which well-known military figures disobeyed orders yet were later honored or pardoned?

Well-documented cases show military figures who disobeyed orders have sometimes been later honored, pardoned, or celebrated — for example, President Trump pardoned U.S. military officers convicted or ...

Oct 28, 2025

What are the specific details of sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump?

Donald Trump has faced public allegations of sexual misconduct from at least two dozen women spanning the 1980s through 2024, with claims ranging from unwanted kissing and groping to an allegation of ...

Nov 27, 2025

How did Clinton respond to findings in the Mueller report and congressional probes about election hacking?

Hillary Clinton publicly responded to the Mueller report and related congressional probes by saying the documents confirmed Russian meddling in 2016 and showed evidence of obstruction of justice, and ...

Nov 22, 2025

Did Melania Trump naturalize through marriage or a different process?

Melania Trump became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006 after previously receiving a U.S. green card reportedly through the EB‑1 “extraordinary ability” category in 2001, not directly via marriage to ...

Nov 10, 2025

how much did the united states spend on subsidies for gay and lesbian dance interpretation in Uganda?

The claim that the United States spent money on “subsidies for gay and lesbian dance interpretation in Uganda” is unsupported by the records and reporting available in the provided material. Multiple ...

Nov 10, 2025

When is Donald Trump's sentencing date after the felony conviction?

Donald Trump’s sentencing after his New York felony conviction occurred on , when Judge Juan Merchan imposed an —a sentence that leaves the conviction on the record but carries . Earlier contemporaneo...

Feb 7, 2026

Is apnews a credible source?

(AP / AP News) is a large, long-established cooperative with extensive global reach and institutional safeguards that make it broadly credible for factual reporting, though independent consistently fl...

Feb 7, 2026

Is apnews a credible source of news?

is widely used, institutionally established and routinely rated as highly factual by multiple evaluators, but its coverage is also described by several media-watchers as leaning left — a tension that ...

Feb 6, 2026

How many laws have bben broken by and during Trump's second administration?

There is no credible, evidence-based single count of “how many laws have been broken” by in his second administration; instead, reporting and legal trackers record hundreds of lawsuits and dozens of e...

Feb 4, 2026

What specific social posts or images first propagated the 'teenage babysitter' claim and how were they debunked?

A viral claim that had been a “” for ’s children first resurfaced on social platforms via posts that paired an old photograph of the couple with inflammatory captions; fact‑checkers traced the core el...

Jan 8, 2026

Which individuals with documented Groyper ties have been charged or convicted for crimes related to January 6, and what were their sentences?

Reporting identifies a small number of individuals with documented ties to the “Groyper” or America First milieu who were charged or convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach; amon...

Jan 6, 2026

Which celebrity interviews include verifiable first‑person statements about anatomy and where are the original transcripts?

A focused search of the provided reporting finds one clear, verifiable celebrity first‑person statement about anatomy: Trevor Noah’s remark about “hoping my sperm doesn’t do anything” appears in the R...