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Major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States
The phrase “Clinton body count” refers to a long-running list of people whose deaths have been tied by critics and some public figures to Bill and Hillary Clinton; that list has circulated for decades...
Charlie Kirk was raised in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights by parents often identified as Robert (father) and Kathryn/Kimberly (mother); reporting describes his father as an architect and poli...
Donald Trump explicitly said on a 2006 appearance on The View, “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her,” while discussing whether Ivanka would pose for Playboy; the remark ...
Reporting on the Chicago protests against ICE and “Operation Midway Blitz” does not identify any organized program that is paying “agitators” to protest, nor does it provide evidence of standard wages...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents many federal lawsuits involving ICE across 2021–2025 — including class actions over detention conditions, courthouse arrests, deportations of U.S....
Available reporting on the Broadview/Chicago-area protests against ICE shows widespread volunteer-driven activism, arrests and clashes but does not report that protesters receive stipends or are paid ...
Donald Trump attended the New York Military Academy (NYMA) from 1959 to 1964 and has repeatedly spoken about his time there, portraying it as formative in instilling discipline, athleticism and leader...
Recent reporting and official releases show multiple instances where people protesting or interfering with ICE actions have been arrested on obstruction-related charges, and agencies have publicly fra...
Public reporting and legal analysis show a complex picture: some companies have publicly adopted numerical diversity targets or "goals" that resemble quotas, and past reporting identified specific fir...
Nick Fuentes has been charged with misdemeanor battery in Cook County, Illinois, stemming from an incident on November 10, 2024, in which a 57‑year‑old activist, Marla Rose, says Fuentes pepper‑spraye...
Court filings alleging that Karoline Leavitt made provocative remarks about tennis star Coco Gauff appear only in a cluster of viral, largely unverified stories and social posts; mainstream reporting ...
A Chicago-area family says a Border Patrol/ICE vehicle released pepper spray into their car in a Sam’s Club parking lot on Nov. 9–10, 2025, striking Rafael Veraza, his 1-year-old daughter and other fa...
Multiple mainstream news outlets reported that at a November 2015 campaign rally Donald Trump imitated New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in a way many viewers interpreted as mocking Kovaleski’s ...
Leeann Tweeden publicly released a photograph she said shows Al Franken with his hands over her sleeping chest taken on a 2006 USO flight, and she described an on-stage forced kiss from the same tour;...
Claims that the Bolsheviks were responsible for roughly 60 million deaths rest on aggregating a mix of documented executions, deaths in detention and forced labor, and mass-famine and wartime excess m...
Donald Trump began publicly promoting doubts about Barack Obama’s birthplace during the 2011 episode in which he pressed for Obama’s birth certificate and said he “would not let go” of the issue, afte...
Available reporting shows Gary Rabine as a longtime donor, early investor and close supporter of Turning Point USA and its founder Charlie Kirk, described in some outlets as an advisory council member...
Historic examples most often cited as “Democratic gerrymanders” include Maryland’s post-2010 congressional maps that packed Republicans and produced nearly all-Democratic delegations (cited assessment...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive national count of “how many women have been arrested by ICE”; instead reporting and agency data show large, shifting totals of people arrested or ...
Reporting from the 1990s shows Donald Trump allegedly told two 14‑year‑old choir girls “In a couple of years I’ll be dating you,” a quote attributed to Chicago Tribune wires and repeated by The Indepe...