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Venezuela is widely reported to hold deposits of minerals that matter to U.S. technology and defense supply chains — notably coltan (tantalum/niobium), bauxite/aluminium ores, iron ore, gold, and pros...
Geological surveys and recent reporting locate most confirmed and reported coltan and rare earth occurrences in Venezuela’s southern Guayana/Orinoco region—especially Bolívar and adjoining Amazonas—la...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...
U.S. crude oil production was higher on average during the Biden presidency than under Trump, and grew to record levels despite Biden’s climate-oriented policies; however, gasoline prices during Biden...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
Different reputable trackers and official Israeli counts give different figures for Israelis killed since the October 7, 2023 attacks: many sources place the immediate October 7 death toll at roughly ...
Barack Obama inherited two large-scale U.S. wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and during his presidency the United States was engaged militarily in at least five overseas conflicts — Afghanistan, Iraq (incl...
The United States is not currently in a civil war: leading policy analysts define civil war as a state-based armed conflict involving an organized internal opposition and a threshold of battlefield de...
The claim that “the right has committed more violent acts than the left” cannot be answered with a single blanket statement because recent analyses reach conflicting conclusions and emphasize differen...
Across multiple datasets and official definitions, political violence in the United States has been dominated by right‑wing actors for much of the last decade, with right‑wing incidents historically a...
Alberta has not formally declared independence from Canada, nor has it formally applied to join the United States; what exists in reporting is an active separatist movement, petitions for a provincial...
Public reporting about President Donald J. Trump in 2025 focuses on policy shifts — notably a new National Security Strategy, AI and intelligence reforms, and controversial military actions — rather t...
Since 2020, reporting and datasets compiled by researchers and advocacy groups show that the deadliest politically motivated violence in the United States has overwhelmingly come from right‑wing extre...
Available sources show a complex picture: surveys and academic studies find that support for political violence has fluctuated and in some periods is similar across parties, while incident-level data ...
Since 2020, U.S. authorities and analysts identify and as the most prominent domestic terrorism threats, with violent incidents concentrated around firearms and targeting government, law enforcement, ...
Available reporting presents a wide but overlapping range for Russian monthly casualties in the Ukraine war: high-end aggregation by Ukrainian authorities and independent trackers implies roughly 30,0...
Since 2020, multiple analyses converge on the conclusion that , but recent data through 2025 show signs of shifting patterns that complicate a simple tally. Government, academic, and think‑tank summar...
In late 2024 the most-noted international incidents tied to the extreme right included the mid‑June racist stabbings in Oulu, Finland, and multiple country‑level spikes documented by specialist tracke...
Federal and academic sources and major news outlets show that U.S. authorities have primarily focused counterterrorism designations and formal labels on foreign organizations or on the broad phenomeno...
Reporting in 2024 documents a mix of localized prosecutions and security assessments tied to anti-fascist (Antifa) actors: U.S. courts convicted two anti‑fascist activists of conspiracy to riot relate...