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No — a U.S. president cannot unilaterally cancel the midterm elections; federal law and the states’ control over election administration leave no legal mechanism for a president to suspend or postpone...
Ilhan Omar’s reported jump from roughly $65,000 to as much as $30 million in recent filings is driven less by a single salary windfall and more by the way federal financial disclosures value privately...
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...
Comparing “better” under Biden or Trump depends on which metrics you use: inflation was much higher early in Biden’s term (peaking around 9% in 2022) but came down later, while early in Trump’s second...
No — the claim that "" is incorrect as stated; the roll call records and contemporary reporting show ten voted to impeach Trump during the second impeachment in January 2021, while the number 47 appea...
Federal prosecutors have charged about 78 people in Minnesota’s pandemic-era welfare/COVID-relief fraud investigations; reporting across outlets says roughly 56 people have pleaded guilty and about 59...
The national debt rose substantially during President Biden’s term: headline Treasury-style totals commonly cited put gross federal debt from about $27.8 trillion at inauguration (Jan 20, 2021) to rou...
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (introduced as H.R.22 in the 119th Congress) passed the in April 2025 but, based on available reporting, had not become law because it still require...
President Obama used a mix of executive actions, enforcement priorities, and expanded prosecutorial discretion to reshape immigration enforcement—most notably DACA in 2012 and broad 2014 executive act...
Yes. Multiple official and news sources show Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to serve as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District and is active in the 119th Congress (2025–2026) — ...
The short answer is no: the claim that President Biden "let 20 million illegal immigrants into the country" is not supported by available government data and independent analyses; official records sho...
House Democrats and some Republicans recently released batches of emails and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein; those releases and a discharge petition to force a vote were framed by Democrats as r...
Ghislaine Maxwell was first publicly tied to Jeffrey Epstein investigations in the 1990s and formally charged in 2020; she was convicted in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years (240 months) in June 2022 . H...
Claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar is currently "arrested and getting deported" are not supported by the available reporting provided here. The record shows a single public arrest for civil disobedience in J...
Allegations that rioters and protesters are being paid have surfaced repeatedly around recent demonstrations in the United States and abroad, but available reporting shows a mixed evidentiary picture:...
The House voted to table Rep. Al Green’s December effort to impeach President Donald J. Trump; official tallies show the motion to table passed by wide margins (e.g., 344–79 on the Clerk roll) and alt...
By the most commonly used official measure — the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index year‑over‑year rate for the last month of the Biden presidency — inflation stood at roughly 3.0% in Ja...
Republican-led congressional and state witnesses allege Governor Tim Walz and his administration were aware of widespread social‑services fraud in Minnesota and retaliated against employees who raised...
Biden’s “COVID-era” expansion of ACA premium tax credits — the enhanced subsidies created in 2021 and extended through 2025 — increased federal spending on marketplace subsidies to an estimated $138 b...
Rob Reiner’s most-covered comments about Donald Trump in 2024 and 2025 were his repeated public warnings that a Trump return threatened U.S. democracy — notably that another Trump presidency could pro...