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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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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) — ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
President Biden told a Voto Latino Zoom call that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” a line that...
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...
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...
The House on June 24, 2025 voted 344–79 to table (kill) an impeachment resolution against President Trump introduced as H.Res.537, meaning the chamber avoided an immediate up-or-down impeachment vote;...
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...
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:...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has a mixed record of votes and public statements on Israel and Palestine: she voted “yea” on H. Res. 771 supporting Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks (reported in profiles a...
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...
Multiple actors have controlled access to portions of the “Epstein files” at different times: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and the Department of Justice withheld and later produced large batches of docume...