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Multiple independent fact-checks and news outlets find no official evidence that Erika (Erika/Erica) Kirk was ever legally banned or prosecuted by Romanian authorities over her past charity work; repo...
SNAP-related fraud and improper payments have been reported to rise sharply in 2024–2025, with USDA’s FY2024 national payment error rate at 10.93% and several private and government-linked studies and...
Measured one way, improper SNAP payments totaled roughly 10–12% of benefits in recent years — about $10–11 billion in FY2023 and a 10.93% rate in FY2024 — but that figure mixes honest errors, agency m...
The most common ways SNAP benefits are abused cluster into three patterns: (card skimming/cloning and unauthorized access), (exchanging benefits for cash, drugs, or non-food goods via retailers or int...
ICE has significantly expanded efforts to use social media and open-source data for immigration enforcement, moving from ad hoc collection toward a sustained, contractor-driven surveillance capability...
ICE uses a mix of paperwork checks, identity databases, law-enforcement partnerships, biometric tools and field tactics to distinguish U.S. citizens from noncitizens; the agency deploys the 287(g) pro...
Government data and contemporary reporting show SNAP improper payments and theft have been significant and rising concerns in 2023–2024. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated 11.7% of SNAP outl...
Common types of SNAP fraud include trafficking (selling benefits for cash or ineligible items), application/eligibility fraud (lying about income, identity, household composition), retailer fraud (rin...
The central allegations circulating claimed that Erika Kirk’s charity activities in Romania were involved in and that she had been ; multiple fact-checks and contemporaneous news reporting found to su...
A search of the supplied reporting returns no clear, corroborated profile for a person named "Ternell A Phillips"; the sources contain multiple Phillips with similar given names (Terrence, Terry, Tere...
Federal trial and appellate dockets that can be searched by party name exist, but there is no single, central federal “party‑indexed list of convictions of public officials” published as a distinct da...
ICE’s use of commercial data services such as LexisNexis’s Accurint centralizes billions of personal records into a searchable toolkit that the agency has used millions of times, expanding its ability...
The reporting provided in the search results contains extensive coverage of the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner and the arrest of their son, but it contains no reportage or attribution about any sexu...
Erika Kirk is not banned from Romania; multiple independent fact-checks and news reports found no evidence of a government ban, criminal charges, or credible ties between her charity work and child tr...
Federal data and watchdog reports show two distinct categories in 2023–24 SNAP problems: payment errors (eligibility and administrative mistakes) and fraud (trafficking, identity fraud and theft). USD...
Available reporting shows no direct interview in which Ivanka Trump speaks at length about parenting her half-brother Barron; most coverage says Barron has been kept largely out of the public eye and ...
Assessing online identity-match reliability requires understanding match rates, data quality, and trade-offs between false positives and false negatives: tests of biometric proofing showed only 5% of ...
DHS’s statutory and regulatory tools plus state-to-state systems give the department multiple paths to DMV and REAL ID data: the REAL ID Act required states to make motor-vehicle database information ...
Several established tools and databases journalists and researchers use to cross-check names in the newly released Epstein documents include PACER for federal court records and commercial aggregators ...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s recent, well-documented reporting on Alzheimer’s centers on a multi-part CNN documentary “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Last Alzheimer’s Patient” (released/aired in 2024 and availab...