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LexisNexis

Corporation providing computer-assisted legal research, as well as business research and risk management services

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Nov 23, 2025
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Is Ericka Kirk banned from Romania

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...

Nov 22, 2025
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How has SNAP fraud trended in the last decade and what reforms have been proposed?

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...

Dec 20, 2025
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How much SNAP fraud exists

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...

Oct 26, 2025

What are the most common ways to abuse SNAP benefits?

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...

Oct 4, 2025

What surveillance powers does ICE have over social media platforms?

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...

Dec 6, 2025

What methods does ICE use to identify and distinguish U.S. citizens from noncitizens during arrests?

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...

Nov 16, 2025

How common is SNAP fraud in the United States in 2023 or 2024?

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...

Jan 26, 2026

How have sanctuary laws affected access to public services and data‑sharing that ICE uses to plan operations?

have meaningfully reduced routine local cooperation with —limiting detainer honors, jail access, and the sharing of immigration status—thereby making it harder for ICE to rely on traditional local gov...

Jan 24, 2026

How do local law enforcement and ICE coordinate to discover people for deportation?

Local police discover people for deportation through a patchwork of formal deputizations, data and information-sharing systems, jail-based screening, and revived task‑force street operations—tools say...

Nov 16, 2025

What are common types of SNAP fraud?

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...

Oct 8, 2025

What allegations have been made against Erika Kirk's charity in Romania?

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...

Jan 30, 2026

What public databases index federal civil dockets and how complete are their records (e.g., CourtListener vs. PACER)?

are indexed primarily in and in several public and commercial aggregators; PACER is the authoritative, court-maintained source but charges per-page fees and is distributed across individual court syst...

Jan 28, 2026

How do media outlets verify and transcribe live political remarks when official press pages are inaccessible?

When official press pages are inaccessible, newsrooms fall back on a mix of , raw audio/video capture, social platforms, and —practices rooted in established that prioritize primary sources and contex...

Jan 16, 2026

who is Ternell A Phillips

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...

Jan 9, 2026

What federal court records and databases provide a searchable, party‑indexed list of convictions of public officials?

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...

Jan 6, 2026

What are the implications of ICE's use of private databases, such as LexisNexis, for citizenship verification?

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...

Jan 3, 2026

Which journalists first broke the Rob Reiner sexual-misconduct story?

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...

Jan 2, 2026

Erika kirk orphanage banned from Romania

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...

Dec 16, 2025

How do types of SNAP fraud (trafficking, eligibility errors, identity fraud) break down in 2023–2024 data?

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...

Dec 2, 2025

Are there any interviews where Ivanka Trump discusses parenting her son Baron?

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 ...