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Mother Jones

American progressive magazine

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Dec 10, 2025
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How many mass shootings have there been in America in 2025

Different trackers use different definitions, but major count-based trackers put U.S. mass-shooting totals for 2025 in the high hundreds while a separate “mass killings” database—using a stricter fata...

Jan 13, 2026
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How many ICE agents have been killed in 2025

The available reporting indicates that no U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were killed in 2025; coverage from investigative outlets and advocacy groups documents multiple civilian...

Dec 4, 2025
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How many unarmed Black people have been killed by police in the U.S. each year since 2015?

Available reporting and databases disagree on counting methods, but multiple reputable sources using crowd‑tracked datasets show a measurable number of unarmed Black people killed by police since 2015...

Dec 4, 2025

how many unarmed black people are killled by police annually

Estimates from comprehensive databases show police kill roughly 1,000 people a year in recent years, and unarmed victims are a smaller but persistent subset — for example, The New York Times and Mappi...

Dec 16, 2025

How many mass shootings occurred in the U.S. each month of 2025 and how does that compare to 2024?

Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and multiple news organizations report roughly 350–400 U.S. mass shootings in 2025 to date, while 2024 had substantially more incidents under broad trackers (about 586 event...

Jan 17, 2026

Groups proven to have funded Anti ICE protestors or civil liberties NGO's

Reporting assembled here finds numerous civil‑rights and activist organizations organizing and publicizing the wave of “ICE Out For Good” protests — including the American Civil Liberties Union, Indiv...

Dec 14, 2025

Which ICE agents (full names) died in the line of duty and what were their causes of death?

ICE’s public listings and media reporting identify multiple ICE agents who died in the line of duty, including high‑profile cases such as Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata (ambushed and killed by carte...

Nov 13, 2025

What are the most popular left-leaning news sources in the US?

The most consistently identified and are mainstream broadcast and national papers—CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, PBS and the major broadcast networks—alongside established progressive digital an...

Jan 12, 2026

Are Med Beds real?

Med Beds—as described in online conspiracies that promise instantaneous cures, limb regrowth and reversal of aging—are not a real, validated medical technology available to the public or hidden elite;...

Dec 3, 2025

ways that RUSSIA financially helped Trump in the last 40 years

Reporting and investigations show multiple, recurring channels through which Russian-linked money or actors flowed into Trump businesses and projects since the late 1990s: Reuters documented at least ...

Dec 11, 2025

Is there verifiable evidence or footage of Donald Trump defecating his pants?

There is no authoritative, verified footage showing former President Donald Trump intentionally defecating his pants; available public clips include audio that some have described as “audibly sharting...

Dec 9, 2025

What are the origins of the claim that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had a sexual relationship?

The viral claim that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had a sexual relationship stems largely from newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents — in particular a jocular 2018 email thread in which Mark Epste...

Dec 16, 2025

What do US mass shooting statistics look like when gang violence is excluded? How many mass shootings annually are actually targeting innocents?

When researchers exclude gang- and crime‑motivated shootings, most major U.S. mass‑shooting databases count far fewer incidents and focus on “indiscriminate” public attacks — for example, Mother Jones...

Dec 15, 2025

How do white mass shooters compare to other racial groups in terms of frequency and severity of attacks?

Available datasets and recent reviews show White people account for a plurality or majority of documented public mass shooters in multiple compilations: Mother Jones/Statista reports 82 of 151 mass sh...

Nov 23, 2025

How many people have been killed by ICE agents in the line of duty?

Available reporting and official ICE records compiled in recent coverage indicate very few ICE agents have been killed in the line of duty during the agency’s history; notable named line-of-duty death...

Jan 24, 2026

Did ICE arrest legal citizens under Obama

— documented cases show that immigration agents detained citizens during the years, but the evidence indicates these were not the stated policy objective and ; scholars and news organizations have com...

Jan 24, 2026

Is Donald Trump a domestic terrorist?

The question whether is a divides legal definitions from political judgments: there is no settled legal determination that he is a domestic terrorist, and law provides a narrow statutory definition an...

Nov 25, 2025

Has Pete Hegseth been involved in any public scandals or controversies?

Pete Hegseth has been the subject of multiple public controversies since his rise from Fox commentator to Pentagon official, including a high-profile “Signalgate” leak of private chat messages, allega...

Jan 16, 2026

Have ice agents been assaulted

Yes — multiple official statements and media reports confirm that ICE and DHS have recorded more incidents described as assaults against ICE agents in 2025 than in comparable periods in 2024, though t...

Dec 11, 2025

What are the most widely reported antisemitic or racist comments attributed to Charlie Kirk and their sources?

Charlie Kirk was widely reported to have made multiple remarks critics labeled racist — including statements about Black people, Black women and affirmative action — and several comments that outlets ...