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The question as phrased appears to ask how much federal debt has been added during President Trump’s second term; reporting provides partial but clear markers: the United States’ gross national debt s...
The Trump administration told Congress, allies and the public it “has every authorization needed” and invoked the president’s Article II commander‑in‑chief powers and an armed‑conflict framing—labelin...
Federal debt measured as the gross national debt climbed through 2025 as the Trump administration enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and related policies; reporting shows the headline nati...
The administration’s legal arguments for striking suspected “drug boats” rest chiefly on an executive-branch reading that treats the campaign as part of U.S. counternarcotics and collective self‑defen...
Multiple investigations, sanctions and reporting link the UAE to financial, logistical and commercial ties that benefited Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), including U.S. sanctions on RSF-linked bus...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) publicly claimed large, headline-grabbing savings—figures that ranged from tens to hundreds of billions on its online “wall of receipts”—but multiple ind...
President Trump’s policies and 2025 legislation coincide with a surge in federal borrowing: federal debt rose from about $36.22 trillion on Jan. 20, 2025, to roughly $38 trillion by Oct. 23, 2025—an i...
The historical “Illuminati” was a short‑lived Bavarian society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 that promoted Enlightenment ideas and was suppressed by Bavarian authorities in the 1780s (membership e...
Americans are divided about President Trump, but contemporary polling shows more people disapprove than approve of his performance overall and worry about his approach—especially on the economy, execu...
International law prohibits deliberate attacks on civilian ships unless they have become lawful military targets; key legal regimes cited by experts include International Humanitarian Law (distinction...
Public and expert assessments of Donald Trump’s presidency are sharply divided: polls show a plurality or majority of Americans disapprove of his job performance in 2025 (e.g., 58% unfavorable in AP‑N...
No — available reporting does not support the claim that Vladimir Putin literally "runs" or commands Donald Trump; U.S. intelligence and multiple investigations show Russia mounted influence operation...
Debate over a “new world order” in 2025 centers on whether U.S. primacy is being replaced by a China-led alternative, a bipolar U.S.–China axis, or a more complex “multiplex” in which Asia and the Glo...
The United States launched a large-scale military operation against Venezuela on 3 January 2026, including airstrikes across Caracas and other northern states, and U.S. officials—most notably Presiden...
Reform UK has not published a single, detailed manifesto-level foreign policy on Russia; public and expert sources describe its position as ambiguous and shaped by prominent individuals’ statements — ...
Donald Trump’s economic agenda in his second term combines expanded tariffs, extensions of tax cuts, deregulation and immigration restrictions — policies that experts say raise deficits, tend to conce...
Only narrow, specific legal authorities allow use of force against ships at sea; most experts and international bodies say missile strikes on suspected drug vessels in international waters lack lawful...
Venezuelans are not monolithic in feeling toward the United States; reactions range from fury and fear among supporters of the Maduro government to relief or cautious approval among some opposition se...
Consensus among public trackers and some expert-roundup reporting places the near‑term odds of a global, alliance‑triggering "World War III" in the non‑negligible but not imminent range — commonly cit...
The primary UN treaty that directly regulates interdiction of ships for drug trafficking is the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (th...