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Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not identify any U.S. senators as “getting money back from Venezuela.” The documents instead show U.S. senators sponsoring legislation...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration conducted U.S. airstrikes and drone strikes across at least seven countries, with the most-cited list including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia...
Russian forces control roughly 19–20% of Ukraine as of mid-December 2025, having gained several thousand square kilometers during 2024–25 and continuing modest, steady territorial advances through lat...
The “New World Order” (NWO) and “Illuminati” labels describe a long‑running set of conspiracy narratives that claim a secret elite seeks a one‑world government or global domination; these ideas trace ...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
Claims that “Bush did 9/11” are a central 9/11 conspiracy theory that accuses the George W. Bush administration of planning, allowing, or covering up the September 11, 2001 attacks; most mainstream in...
Different counts exist for how many military/drone strikes the Obama administration carried out abroad between 2009 and 2017: U.S. government tallies published by the Office of the Director of Nationa...
The Obama administration ran a large targeted‑killing campaign using drones and other strikes—analysts count roughly 540–1,878 strikes during his presidency depending on counting methods—and the admin...
Independent trackers report roughly 57 drone strikes in George W. Bush’s presidency, about 540–563 under Barack Obama, and a highly concentrated surge early in Donald Trump’s term (2,243 strikes in Tr...
Recent demographic reporting places the number of Arabs in Israel (excluding most West Bank and Gaza residents) at roughly 2.04–2.13 million people, about 21–21.5% of Israel’s population (CBS-derived ...
The claim that “Obama ordered 4,200 drone attacks on men and women” is not supported by the available reporting in the provided sources. Major counts of U.S. drone strikes under President Barack Obama...
The best-documented, repeatable figure in the provided reporting is that U.S. forces dropped at least 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone, a tally compiled from U.S. defense data and highlighted by analysts su...
Contemporary reporting and post‑election tallies show Kamala Harris received roughly 74.4–75.0 million popular votes in the 2024 U.S. presidential contest, amounting to about 48.3–48.4% of the nationa...
Available reporting shows substantial disagreement over how to count “military operations” Obama authorized and how many civilians died; narrow tallies exist for specific programs (e.g., drone strikes...
The United States has significantly expanded its military footprint across the Middle East since 2023, with roughly 40,000–50,000 troops regionally and increased naval, air and missile‑defense assets ...
Barack Obama presided over a major expansion of U.S. air campaigns: reporting by the Council on Foreign Relations and other analysts says the United States dropped at least 26,171 bombs in 2016 across...
The New World Order (NWO) conspiracy theory began as a phrase used by statesmen to describe geopolitical shifts and was transformed over two centuries into a broad claim that a hidden elite seeks an a...
Claims that “Israel” or prominent Israeli leaders said the September 11, 2001 attacks were “one of the best things to ever happen to them” have circulated for years; the best-documented origin involve...
President Barack Obama dramatically expanded U.S. use of drone and other air strikes, authorizing roughly 540–563 strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere that researchers and commentators sa...
The claim that “Obama ordered 4,200 drone attacks” and that those strikes were carried out “without Congress approval” is not supported by the reporting in the provided sources. Multiple reputable cou...