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Major investigations have repeatedly rejected or found no persuasive evidence for many popular JFK conspiracy claims: the Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone , the 1982 National ...
Secret, large‑scale “chemtrails” as a covert atmospheric spraying program lack credible scientific evidence and are rejected by mainstream atmospheric scientists, while geoengineering exists as a legi...
Research shows sanctuary policies tend to reduce how often local jails honor ICE detainer requests and are associated with fewer deportations, while most empirical studies find no measurable increase ...
Across a broad set of academic and policy studies through 2025, -and-crime-rates-2025">undocumented immigrants as a group are not associated with higher crime rates than residents, and jurisdictions w...
The most prominent “multiple shooter” claims stem from (a) the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ (HSCA) 1979 acoustical analysis that it said indicated a high probability of a second gunman, a...
Donald Trump's 2020 COVID-19 response attracted sustained criticism for publicly downplaying the virus, inconsistent messaging on masks and testing, and perceived mismanagement of federal coordination...
A growing body of empirical research finds that sanctuary policies do not increase crime and in many analyses are associated with either null or modestly improved public-safety measures, while they me...
The acoustic evidence from a Dallas police Dictabelt was central to the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) finding that “scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability...
The United States has had and continues to have technologies that can modify weather at local to regional scales—most notably cloud seeding, a practice dating to the 1940s and used in the U.S. for dec...
Debate over whether higher education is dedicated to “left indoctrination” is contested: several commentators and conservative outlets assert elite universities skew strongly left and promote ideologi...
Climate change is real and extensively documented: multiple large-scale reviews and empirical studies conclude that Earth’s climate is warming and that human activities are a dominant driver, while a ...
Since election officials, federal agencies and independent experts have doubled down on technically grounded safeguards—paper ballots or voter‑verifiable paper records, pre‑ and postelection testing, ...
Empirical studies since 2015 overwhelmingly find that local “sanctuary” or limited-cooperation policies reduce the number of deportations ordered from local contacts—Hausman estimates about a one‑thir...
Evidence from academic reviews and national datasets finds little to no link between sanctuary policies and higher crime rates, and several studies show these policies can increase crime reporting by ...
Newly released JFK files from March 18, 2025 expanded public access to FBI documents, photos, audio and video but — according to mainstream reporting — did not produce definitive proof of a second sho...
Forensic analyses of the Zapruder-era evidence — photographic/film analysis, wound and ballistic interpretation, and acoustic studies of Dallas police recordings — have produced competing conclusions:...
Reducing atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels (~280 ppm) would lower greenhouse forcing and, over long timescales, move global temperatures toward pre‑industrial values, but the . Existing analyse...
Multiple peer-reviewed and policy studies converge on two empirical findings: substantially reduce deportations—particularly of nonviolent and nonconvicted immigrants—while producing no detectable inc...
The multiple‑shooter theory rests chiefly on three threads of evidence: contemporaneous eyewitness reports that many observers perceived shots from the knoll area, —most famously the 1979 (HSCA) revie...
paper published in PNAS ( 2020) finds that local implemented 2010–2015 significantly reduced overall—about one-third for people fingerprinted by local authorities—while sharply cutting deportations of...