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Deutsche Welle

International German public radio and television channel

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Dec 12, 2025
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how much has trump made off presidency

Multiple reporting and analyses estimate that Donald Trump and his family have seen multibillion‑dollar gains tied to his return to the White House: Forbes and related outlets report a roughly $3 bill...

Nov 22, 2025
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was trump really shot in the ear

Multiple contemporaneous news reports, official descriptions from the Trump campaign and later investigations all state that a bullet grazed or nicked Donald Trump’s right/upper right ear during a Jul...

Nov 16, 2025
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How many police resignations were reported after Mandani took office and what are the verified sources?

Reporting on resignations tied to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory is mixed and often unverified: multiple outlets cite an October spike of roughly 245 NYPD departures (a 35% month‑over‑month rise) bu...

Jan 16, 2026

Does Donald Trump regularly shit his pants?

There is no credible, verifiable evidence that former president Donald Trump "regularly" soils himself; high-profile social-media posts claiming incontinence have been debunked as fabrications or sati...

Nov 19, 2025

WHICH HAS MORE CRIME REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRADICY RUN CITIES

Academic reviews of hundreds of U.S. cities find little evidence that a mayor’s party—Democrat or Republican—consistently causes higher crime; a study of 400 cities over nearly 30 years concluded mayo...

Dec 17, 2025

uk rape rate per 100.000 vs poland rape rate per 100.000

Latest international datasets show a large numerical gap between reported rape rates for the United Kingdom and Poland, but that gap largely reflects differences in definitions, recording practices an...

Nov 30, 2025

Which European countries saw the largest increases or decreases in rape reports since 2023 and what factors explain them?

Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...

Nov 23, 2025

whos economy was better Obamas or trumps in his first term

Evaluating whose economy was “better” in a president’s first term depends on the metric: growth, jobs, unemployment, inflation, or deficits. By many standard measures, the late-Obama recovery (2015–20...

Jan 24, 2026

Are there credible reports or photos showing Trump's ear injury or lack thereof?

Multiple reputable news agencies documented that former President to his right ear in the and published photos showing him with a bandage and bloodied ear soon afterward, while claiming recent photos ...

Jan 18, 2026

Does Jake Lang identify as racist

Jake Lang has publicly both made racist, anti‑Muslim and antisemitic statements and — according to multiple accounts of his speeches — explicitly said “I am a racist,” meaning that, based on available...

Nov 19, 2025

Was Hitler a socialist

The weight of recent scholarship and mainstream reference works finds that Hitler and the Nazi Party were not socialists in the sense of Marxist or democratic socialism: Nazism was an ultranationalist...

Nov 16, 2025

Are there any photos or videos of Donald Trump's ear injury?

Photographs and videos showing Donald Trump with a bloodied or bandaged right ear were published immediately after the July 13, 2024 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania; his campaign later rel...

Dec 16, 2025

What is the status of MAGA

Support for MAGA inside the Republican Party shows measurable erosion: NBC polling finds the share of Republicans who self-identify with MAGA fell seven percentage points since April 2025 and “strong”...

Jan 27, 2026

did elon hack the election

There is no credible, publicly documented evidence that “hacked” the or directly manipulated vote totals; multiple fact-checking outlets and reporting have treated claims that or Musk rigged the vote ...

Jan 24, 2026

Did ICE arrest 104 clergy men just for praying

No — the arrests of roughly 100 clergy at were carried out by airport and local police during an demonstration, not by ICE, and officials say the clergy were detained for trespassing or failing to com...

Nov 20, 2025

What were the total reported rape cases in the UK for 2020 and 2024?

Police-recorded rape offences in England and Wales were about 55,685 in the 2020/21 reporting year according to GOV.UK commentary on victim‑based offences (note this is presented as 2020/21 not strict...

Jan 22, 2026

can you fact-check trump's entire speech from Davos?

A complete, line-by-line independent fact-check of ’s Davos speech is possible in principle but requires time, primary data and document-by-document sourcing; existing reputable fact-checkers already ...

Nov 15, 2025

Are Maddow global reports concerning Russia-Ukraine war factual?

Rachel Maddow’s reporting on the Russia‑Ukraine war mixes live commentary and sourcing that sits amid a large ecosystem of verified reporting and persistent misinformation; independent fact‑checking o...

Jan 25, 2026

How many total arrests did ICE and partner agencies report in the Minneapolis operations, day by day?

Homeland Security and spokespeople have reported large aggregate arrest totals for —most prominently counts of roughly 1,500, 2,400 and 3,000 arrests at different moments—but the public record assembl...

Jan 25, 2026

As per trumps speech on Davos, is china faking the production and use of windmills?

claimed at that “ makes almost all of the windmills” yet “I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China,” implying China builds turbines for export while not using them at home; multiple fact‑ch...