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Donald J. Trump was the subject of multiple news stories after a late-night Truth Social posting spree in which outlets counted “more than 150” to “over 160” posts made in a span of hours on Dec. 1–2,...
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...
Brown University’s recent news coverage centers on a December 2025 mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine, prompting debate about campus politics and safety . Reporting also shows par...
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...
The United States currently provides Israel roughly $3.8 billion in predictable annual security assistance under a 10‑year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that runs through 2028 — composed of $3.3 b...
In the past 24 hours, President Donald Trump published multiple posts on Truth Social that included commentary on a Brown University shooting and a question about campus security cameras, a mocking po...
Available reporting shows multiple, distinct money flows involving or concerning Donald Trump in 2025: media and university settlements with amounts reported (e.g., Columbia — about $200 million) and ...
Counting U.S. military deaths across “major American wars” requires choices about which conflicts to include and whether to count battle deaths only or all service-related deaths; available compiled t...
Yes — U.S. taxpayer money does fund Israel’s military and related programs: multiple public analyses and government reports show billions in Foreign Military Financing, arms sales notifications and ot...
President Biden authorized or directed U.S. airstrikes in at least Syria (Feb. 25, 2021 and subsequent strikes), Iraq (retaliatory strikes against Iran‑backed groups, Dec. 2023), and operations that i...
The available analyses conclude there is no clear evidence that National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., materially reduced crime in specific neighborhoods in 2025; academic and journalistic ass...
Official U.S. reporting and independent trackers diverge sharply: Obama-era policies and new reporting requirements coincided with a drop in officially reported civilian deaths after 2011, while indep...
President Biden has authorized U.S. military operations since taking office in 2021, including an early 2021 airstrike in Syria/Iraq and multiple counterterrorism and other strikes reported through 20...
Multiple measurable signals point to in the : widening affective gaps between partisans, clearer ideological distance on policy dimensions, that amplify antagonism, and institutional strains in electi...
President Biden can be credibly credited with ending one major, long-running U.S. combat engagement: the American combat mission in Afghanistan, concluded with the August 2021 withdrawal from that cou...
No suspect has been publicly charged in the Brown University shooting; a man detained as a “person of interest” was arrested at a Coventry hotel and then released after investigators said the “evidenc...
Recent, peer-reviewed and federally funded research increasingly finds cannabis can reduce short-term alcohol consumption or cravings in some users, including a multi‑institution NIH‑funded trial that...
A clear set of charities and institutions publish explicit Qualified Charitable Distribution () acceptance instructions and sample acknowledgment letters: provides agency acknowledgement timing and wo...
Brown University locked down overnight after a shooter opened fire in the Barus and Holley building, killing two students and wounding nine; the campus shelter‑in‑place order was lifted the following ...
Authorities say a shooter opened fire Saturday, Dec. 13, inside Brown University’s Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, killing two students and wounding between eight and nine others; a p...