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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
Kazakhstan formally announced it would accede to the Abraham Accords on November 6–7, 2025; prior to that the original 2020 signatories were the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (September 15, 2020), ...
Poland and the United Kingdom use different legal definitions, recording practices and policing cultures that make per‑100,000 comparisons misleading: the UK’s consent‑based statutory definition and i...
Multiple reputable fact-checkers and Catholic outlets investigated and debunked viral claims in mid-2025 that Pope Leo XIV had replaced private confession with communal penance or “decriminalised sin,...
Real wages rose at various points under Biden, with outlets noting inflation peaked at about 9% in 2022 and later fell to roughly 2.9% by the end of his term . Inflation fell from its Biden-era peak i...
Ahmed al‑Sharaa, leader of the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al‑Assad in December 2024, was appointed Syria’s transitional (interim) president on 29 January 2025 and has led the interim governme...
Available reporting does not provide a single, verifiable total weight of narcotics seized from the boats the U.S. struck; coverage focuses on the strikes themselves, casualty counts and U.S. claims t...
Since 2024 fact‑checkers have repeatedly identified AI‑generated and wholly synthetic videos circulating around protests—ranging from Iran to Los Angeles and Venezuela—using a mix of forensic clues, p...