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There are about 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States as of 2024, which Congress Research Service reports as “approximately 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens” and that ...
Viewing or possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated as a crime in U.S. law and by major advocacy groups: federal statutes and state laws make creation, possession, or distribution of C...
Democratic presidents have added more inflation-adjusted debt overall since 1913, though Democrats have also occupied the White House for more years in that period, and the national debt has risen ste...
The short answer: not entirely — the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Trump v. United States recognized that a president (and former president) has immunity for some “official” acts but not for “unoff...
The U.S. Constitution does not include a blanket amendment that says “the president is to protect our country”; instead, multiple provisions and statutes define presidential duties for national defens...
Congress temporarily removed the 400%‑of‑FPL cap for premium tax credit (PTC) eligibility for tax years 2021–2025, so people with incomes above 400% FPL can qualify for 2025 credits if other rules are...
Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2021) oversaw roughly 1.4–1.5 million deportations/removals and many more expulsions/returns at the border, though exact totals depend on whether you include Title 42 e...
If enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025, millions will face much higher premiums in 2026 — KFF estimates average marketplace premium payments would more than double and a 60‑year...
If Congress does nothing, the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 will expire on Dec. 31, 2025, returning subsidy rules to pre‑enhancement ...
Viewing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated seriously under U.S. law: federal and state statutes criminalize the creation, possession, and distribution of CSAM and treat it as evidence of ch...
Defenses to federal CSAM charges where the accused “only passively viewed” material hinge on the government’s burden to prove possession or knowledge and procedural limits on evidence and searches; co...
Proving possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in court typically requires showing the material is a prohibited “visual depiction” of a minor and that the defendant knowingly possessed or ac...
Several federal courts of appeals have held that private internet companies that scan user content for CSAM are not government actors subject to the Fourth Amendment when they voluntarily search their...
Federal grand juries require a quorum of 16–23 members and, under Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, at least 12 jurors must concur to return an indictment (a “true bill”) . State prac...
A search of the provided reporting turned up no verified evidence that any current U.S. senator accepted trips paid for by the Venezuelan government or state-owned companies since 2015; claims circula...
Since 2019 U.S. sanctions have reshaped the terrain for enforcing ICSID and ICC awards against Venezuela by both constraining Venezuela’s liquidity and financial channels and by creating legal and pol...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) removed the Affordable Care Act’s 400% federal poverty level (FPL) eligibility cliff for premium tax credits for the 2021 and 2022 tax/coverage years and ca...
Hamas emerged in the late 1980s as an Islamist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and quickly combined social services with an armed wing that has fought Israel and governed Gaza since 2007; it carrie...
Undocumented immigrants generally cannot access federal programs like Medicaid, Medicare, or ACA subsidies, and use less health care and incur lower per-capita health expenditures than U.S.-born resid...
Cost‑sharing reductions (CSRs) remain available for 2026 to people who buy a Silver Marketplace plan and meet income and eligibility rules: broadly, individuals and families with household incomes up ...