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Reporting and government documents show that U.S. immigration agents have detained dozens — and that some U.S. citizens have been deported or wrongfully removed — but the exact tally is unclear becaus...
ICE reported 277,686 arrests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, an average of about 310 arrests per day according to ICE-published figures cited by Newsweek . Independent trackers and news analyses show a mar...
ICE’s official historical enforcement numbers are available but dispersed across ICE releases, DHS datasets and third‑party projects: DHS’s OHSS Persist tables and ICE statistics provide removals and ...
Public trackers and news analyses show Nancy Pelosi’s household — with trades executed by her husband Paul Pelosi — traded heavily in large-cap tech, AI and cybersecurity names across 2024–2025, inclu...
U.S. statutory authority for using force at sea against non‑state drug traffickers centers on the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) and related statutes that let the Coast Guard and other agen...
The claim that ICE does not take U.S. citizens or people engaged in legal immigration processes is contradicted by multiple investigations, government reports, and news analyses documenting repeated i...
Walmart is consistently identified as one of the largest private-sector employers whose workforce includes substantial numbers of , but there is no single, up-to-date national tally of how many Walmar...
Estimates of the fiscal cost of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers in 2024 vary widely depending on method and source: some advocacy and congressional reports cite figures around $150–151 billion a...
Available reporting indicates President Donald Trump was publicly documented playing golf over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend — with video and press coverage dated Nov. 29–30, 2025 — and outlets cite t...
A member of Congress must serve at least five years to be eligible for any retirement annuity, and different rules apply depending on whether they’re in CSRS or FERS and on when they were first covere...
Since 2020, reporting and datasets compiled by researchers and advocacy groups show that the deadliest politically motivated violence in the United States has overwhelmingly come from right‑wing extre...
Since 2020, U.S. authorities and analysts identify and as the most prominent domestic terrorism threats, with violent incidents concentrated around firearms and targeting government, law enforcement, ...
The reporting and analyses provided show that taxpayers spent on presidential travel and security tied to Donald Trump’s Mar‑a‑Lago visits, but estimates vary widely by method and time period. Indepen...
Venezuela’s economic collapse, sanctions on oil, and weakening state institutions have turned large swathes of the country into permissive terrain for illicit economies, making it a major transit hub ...
Members of Congress’ pensions are calculated using the same basic “salary base × accrual rate × years of service” formula used for federal employees, with the high‑3 average salary as the salary base ...
Recent reporting and government-commissioned analyses show for how many military families rely on SNAP: published estimates range from receiving SNAP, while broader tallies note and even in SNAP-parti...
The scale of U.S. support to Ukraine depends on which categories you count: Congress has approved roughly $174–175 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations since 2022 (much of it for military,...
President Trump’s administration proposed and enacted measures in 2025 that cut or redirected specific program funding and pushed large tax cuts, but independent analysts and budget offices say those ...
NPR itself received minimal direct federal appropriations in the 2010s — about $6.4 million in CPB grants across FY2006–FY2010 — and most reporting and watchdog analyses say NPR’s core operations are ...
NCMEC triages CyberTipline reports by classifying incoming reports as “referrals” (sufficient for law enforcement) or “informational,” by labeling media with content type and estimated victim age, and...