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Miami Herald

American daily newspaper

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Dec 12, 2025
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How many people have gone missing in ice custody

Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...

Jan 4, 2026
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hugo carvajal realsed list of senators

The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...

Oct 23, 2025
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What is the most common route for Venezuelan drug smugglers?

The preponderance of reporting across the supplied sources indicates that the . Recent investigative reporting and official accounts also document a parallel into Central America (notably Belize), and...

Dec 10, 2025

Have any US citizens been wrongfully deported since January 2025 and where were cases reported?

Reporting and public records show multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. government removal operations produced cases that courts and advocates have called “wrongful deportations,” including at least f...

Nov 18, 2025

Were any Epstein federal case records sealed, and what is the process to unseal them?

Federal court records tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s prosecutions have been both sealed and unsealed at different times: many civil-case materials were sealed during litigation and later unsealed in stages...

Nov 5, 2025

how many people went missing at Alligator Alcatraz

Reports from September 2025 indicate that a large share of men held at the Florida detention site nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" could not be located in federal tracking systems, with journalism and a...

Nov 17, 2025

Who kept Epstein files sealed

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...

Nov 7, 2025

How many women came forward with allegations against Jeffrey Epstein?

Federal records and reporting show , with a July 2025 Justice Department and FBI memo reporting over two decades, mostly minors, while survivors’ lawyers and reporting describe hundreds more who have ...

Dec 16, 2025

What maritime routes do Venezuelan drug traffickers use through the Caribbean to reach the US?

Venezuelan-linked traffickers use maritime corridors from Venezuela’s Caribbean coast — including Sucre, Falcón and Margarita Island — to send cocaine to the Eastern Caribbean (islands such as Martini...

Dec 11, 2025

What crimes did Jeffrey Epstein admit to in the 2008 Florida plea deal?

Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 Florida plea deal resulted in guilty pleas to two state prostitution-related charges: solicitation/procurement of a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution, with...

Nov 18, 2025

What were the key dates in Jeffrey Epstein's arrests, charges, and death and how did they intersect with the Maxwell case?

Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal sex‑trafficking charges in early July 2019 and was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019; the Southern District of New York announced the 201...

Nov 15, 2025

1200 missing detainees from Alligator Alcatraz

Reporting from multiple outlets finds that hundreds — by some counts about two‑thirds of roughly 1,800 men held in July — who passed through the Florida site nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” could not b...

Dec 12, 2025

did trump kick epstein out because of someones daughter

Donald Trump did expel Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in the 2000s after an incident involving “a member’s teenage daughter,” according to reporting by the Miami Herald and confirmed in timeline summ...

Dec 12, 2025

Were there flight logs or guest lists showing Trump visited Little St. James?

Flight manifests released from Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft show Donald Trump listed as a passenger on multiple domestic trips in the 1990s (seven appearances between 1993–1997 are cited) but none of th...

Dec 8, 2025

Biden legally couldn’t release Epstein/Maxwell files until after Maxwell’s trial

President Biden did not have a blanket legal bar preventing release of Epstein/Maxwell materials during his administration; reporting and legal filings show the files were subject to ongoing investiga...

Jan 14, 2026

Alligator Alcatraz detainees unaccounted for

The reporting indicates a significant, verifiable breakdown in public tracking of people processed through the Florida facility nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”: investigators found that roughly 1,800 m...

Dec 12, 2025

When did Epstein first get charged?

Jeffrey Epstein was first charged in federal court in July 2019: prosecutors in Manhattan announced an indictment charging him with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy t...

Jan 16, 2026

Is Donald Trump a rapist, based on all information we have available now, including his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein?

The record released so far documents multiple allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted or raped women, including tips to the FBI, a 2016 anonymous civil complaint that named Trump alongside Je...

Dec 10, 2025

How did media coverage and public reaction shape the 2024 unsealing of Epstein documents?

The 2024 unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents produced immediate, intense media coverage that focused on names, shocking details and political angles; initial batches included roughly 950 pa...

Nov 12, 2025

How many people have been reported missing at Alligator Alcatraz and in which years?

The reporting establishes that of people detained at Florida’s so‑called “Alligator Alcatraz” were reported missing or unaccounted for in 2025, with a concentrated spike tied to the mass intake in Jul...