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Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
The Department of Education (ED) proposed a tighter definition of “professional degrees” for 2025–26 that would shrink programs treated as professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and limit e...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and draft regulatory text would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing roughly 2,000 program entries to fewer tha...
Different counts exist for how many military/drone strikes the Obama administration carried out abroad between 2009 and 2017: U.S. government tallies published by the Office of the Director of Nationa...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...
The Department of Education’s new, narrower definition of “professional degree” would shrink the set of graduate programs eligible for higher federal loan caps and thus reduce borrowing capacity for m...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 10–11 traditional fields (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, ...
The Department of Education’s 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...
Public sources show the Biden administration sharply reduced reported drone and other declared strikes in 2021 compared with prior years — Airwars found declared U.S. strikes fell 54% globally in 2021...
Civilian deaths reported in U.S. drone campaigns fell after the Obama administration tightened targeting and adopted a “near certainty” standard, rose again after the Trump administration revoked Obam...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee has drafted a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties the category to specific fields, program length and licensure pathways — a ch...
Available reporting and official acknowledgments show at least four U.S. citizens have been killed in U.S. drone or airstrike operations since 2001: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that fou...
The Obama administration carried out the vast majority of its acknowledged drone and airstrike campaign in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, with reporting groups counting roughly 540–570 strikes in those ...
Estimates of how many drone strikes occurred under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) vary widely across trackers and news reports; published counts in the provided sources include figures such as 2,2...
Precise year-by-year civilian casualty counts from U.S. drone strikes for 2009–2025 are not published in a single authoritative dataset in the sources provided; independent trackers (the Bureau of Inv...
Available reporting shows specific acknowledged civilian deaths from US strikes under President Biden include a widely reported Kabul strike that killed 10 civilians (including seven children) and bro...
Under Obama the U.S. dramatically expanded covert drone strikes—“ten times more” airstrikes than under Bush—while instituting stricter “near certainty” standards intended to reduce civilian harm . Tru...
Published tallies disagree sharply about how many drone or “air” strikes occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency because researchers use different geographies, agencies and definitions; independent ...
The Obama administration centralized and tightened approval rules for strikes outside declared war zones, requiring high‑level sign‑off and a “near certainty” that strikes would not kill civilians; th...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE) process landed on recognizing “11 primary programs” as professional degree categories eligible for the higher loan cap under the One Big Beau...