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The available sources report that Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and carried the Electoral College with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226 (National Archives; BBC) . Multiple ...
Mar‑a‑Lago has not been seized; it remains President Trump’s private club and residence, and reporting shows it has hosted events and presidential announcements there . Federal agents did execute a se...
Four commercial airliners were hijacked on September 11, 2001: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 struck the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, a...
Yes — but with important limits: personal gifts from private individuals or domestic sources can often be retained by a president, while gifts from foreign governments are governed by the Constitution...
Available reporting shows Mar‑a‑Lago remains President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence and private club and that he continues to use it as a base of operations and high‑profile social events; ther...
Death certificates in the U.S. are completed by a certifier (physician, medical examiner or coroner) and filed with the local or state vital records office; the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death is t...
Controversies and persistent myths about Anthony Fauci’s role in early AIDS research are well-documented in recent reporting and commentary: critics and conspiracy authors have accused him of promotin...
Reporting on Donald Trump’s “full daily routine” mixes public schedules (meetings, events) with media profiles about private habits; official calendars and presidential diaries record appointments but...
Charlie Kirk has publicly said “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s,” and repeated variants of that critique in speeches and events, framing the 1964 law as having ...
Donald J. Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 312 Electoral College votes to Kamala D. Harris’s 226, a 86-vote Electoral College margin that several outlets count as a clear victory though n...
Ronald Reagan used an explicitly racist slur in a 1971 taped phone call with President Richard Nixon—calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys”—a passage restored to public release in 2019 and documente...
The first federal income tax in the United States was enacted to finance the Civil War in 1861–1862, but that tax was temporary and later repealed . The modern, permanent federal income tax system dat...
Claims that Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, orchestrated John F. Kennedy’s assassination appear repeatedly in fringe media, documentaries and social posts after recent document releases, bu...
Claims that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad assassinated John F. Kennedy appear repeatedly in fringe articles, documentaries and some investigative pieces—but mainstream archival records and major...
During his first term, President Trump and his administration resisted or ignored multiple congressional and judicial subpoenas related chiefly to financial records, tax returns, and January 6 investi...
The FBI surveillance files on Martin Luther King Jr. comprise decades of bureau paperwork — internal memos, informant reports, investigative leads, and transcript excerpts — assembled during COINTELPR...
There are no explicit FOIA releases in the supplied documents that name “William Kyle Riley” in full; the materials supplied show FOIA logs and public FOIA libraries at NARA and DOJ that contain many ...
Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the United States Congress — a bipartisan coalition of both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate — and was signed into law by Democratic Preside...
Official U.S. investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963; the Warren Commission and later federal inquiri...