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A patchwork of peer-reviewed studies, think‑tank tallies and journalism tie policies enacted or pursued by the Trump administration to death toll estimates that range from dozens for direct custody de...
Since 2015, public reporting does not show states (subnational governments) signing formal bilateral public‑health MOUs with foreign national governments; instead, the recent wave of public, state‑to‑...
Raw counts of U.S. visa overstays are dominated by large-source countries in Latin America — especially Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia — while the highest overstay percentages are concentrated among s...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration’s biggest announced health-aid commitments were concentrated in a set of new bilateral “compacts” with African governments—an initial tranche of agre...
There is no single, verified tally in the reporting that counts how many people “” strictly as a result of shutting down ; available work offers modelled estimates of excess deaths from reduced aid an...
No single, independently verified count exists of how many people “starved to death” specifically because of the USAID shutdown; peer-reviewed studies and expert trackers place excess deaths from the ...
Nina Munk spent six years reporting on Jeffrey Sachs’s Millennium Villages Project and distilled her reporting into the book The Idealist, which chronicles early optimism, on-the-ground implementation...
The public record in the provided reporting does not contain a single, consolidated dollar total for all foreign‑assistance commitments made by the Biden administration since January 2021; the officia...
Ronald Reagan is credited with hosting the most U.S. state dinners since 1950, a tally commonly reported as 59 across his two terms . Counts for other post‑1950 presidents vary by source, with Richard...
The available reporting and research point to large, rapid cuts to USAID programs in 2025 that have hit a wide set of countries and sectors; independent estimates suggest hundreds of country-level awa...
Research and reporting link changes in US–China trade to measurable shifts in Chinese student flows: economists estimate that the 2018 tariff shock and later trade tensions could cost US universities ...
The available materials do not provide a definitive figure for the ; instead, they offer fragmentary indicators—most notably older think‑tank analyses showing conservative‑leaning institutions lag on ...