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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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Researchers and trackers disagree on whether gang-related "gang bang" shootings are counted as mass shootings: some major datasets exclude gang- or felony-motivated incidents while others include them...
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 ...
Reporting and investigations over many years link multiple Russian billionaires to business dealings or payments that benefited Donald Trump or the Trump Organization—most prominently Dmitry Rybolovle...
Trump Model Management (originally T Models) was a New York City–based modeling agency founded in 1999 and long associated with Donald Trump; multiple outlets reported it closed or was being wound dow...
Charlie Kirk has publicly denied systemic racism, criticized the Civil Rights Act and “white privilege,” and has been accused by multiple organizations and outlets of normalizing or tolerating white n...