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Federal employees should look to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as the primary official source for 2026 pay tables and effective dates; OPM posts GS, locality, special rate and related pay m...
Coverage by fact-checkers and contemporaneous reporting shows that the decision to call the National Guard on January 6, 2021, was made by the Capitol Police Board and Pentagon officials, not unilater...
The United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast in early December 2025, an action Washington says targeted a vessel used to move sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian crude; Venezue...
The Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...
The United States has committed roughly $174–175 billion in direct financial and security-related assistance to Ukraine through early 2025, of which about $66–69.7 billion is documented as U.S. milita...
Available reporting names multiple men called “Harry Myers” with documented military service, but none in the provided sources match the user’s specifics — a 1990s service member who went into hiding ...
Pete Hegseth’s basic service in the Army National Guard and his status as a commissioned infantry officer are corroborated by an official Department of Defense biography and by reference works such as...
Available reporting shows two different snapshots of U.S. troop levels in Europe: government and think‑tank tallies put the force at roughly 65,000–85,000 service members in early–mid 2025, while news...
Since 2017, reporting produced competing totals for how much of the Trump-era southern border barrier exists: contemporary counts cluster around of barriers described as “built” or “completed,” while ...
Lori Frantzve, identified as Erika Kirk’s mother, is publicly reported to have a professional background in after a long career at General Electric; several profiles say she founded multiple companies...
Donald Trump did not serve in the U.S. military; contemporary reporting and fact-checks note he attended a military-style academy as a youth and was medically deferred from Vietnam-era service for a f...
Chuck Schumer did vote in favor of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act package in 1986 that included the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement provisions; the MDLEA was enacted as part of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard after graduating Princeton in 2003 and served in multiple deployments; reporting and official biographies indicate he ro...
President Biden’s vacations have generated multiple, differing cost estimates ranging from a documented minimum of up through multi‑million projections of for Delaware trips and broader tallies reachi...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 until 2007, and a record of deployment to Iraq for roughly six months in 2005; his service is most commonly described as a rather than as an...
Two recurring claims appear in the record: a high-profile public figure asserted Donald Trump “absolutely” uses cocaine based on observed sniffles, and a Department of Defense inspector general report...
The specific claim that "5,000 U.S. soldiers quit in a mass protest" is not supported by the reporting available in the provided sources; instead the documented resignations and workforce reductions c...
Contemporary reporting and institutional biographies consistently identify Pete Hegseth as having reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard (Britannica; UANI; The Atlantic) . Official Defen...
U.S. forces remain widely dispersed worldwide: publicly available tallies put more than 160,000 active-duty personnel stationed outside the United States as of mid‑2025, and the Pentagon continues to ...
Video and documentary footage shows Nancy Pelosi expressing frustration and saying she “takes responsibility” for Capitol security failures on January 6, 2021, but the material does not establish lega...