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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...
Two active civil matters are driving the real-world threat of freezing or seizing Donald J. Trump’s assets: New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump an...
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...
Data and peer-reviewed research consistently show that immigrants — including those without authorization — are not more likely to commit serious crimes than U.S.-born residents; multiple national and...
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...
The “payment” from Qatar to Donald Trump was not cash but a customized Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet — widely reported and publicly described as a gift valued at roughly $400 million — that Qatar offered to ...
The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment says only that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” which on its face limits election, not all service; legal scholars and off...
Known datasets and reporting show the U.S. dominates published tallies of serial killers: Radford/related compilations list thousands of U.S. cases (over 3,200–4,700 depending on the dataset) and Worl...
Comparing U.S. mass‑shooting trends across presidential terms is difficult because the underlying counts are small, definitions vary and year‑to‑year volatility is high; RAND and reporting note that c...
Multiple news outlets and datasets say 2025 saw fewer mass shootings than recent years, but counts vary by definition and tracker; several state-level summaries identify Texas, Illinois and California...
Multiple outlets report that graphic eyewitness and surveillance videos of the September 10, 2025 shooting that killed Charlie Kirk were published online within hours, seen by millions, and circulated...
The Constitution divides war powers: Congress has the power to “declare War,” while the President is Commander in Chief and exercises inherent Article II authority to direct the armed forces . Statuto...
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...
Nationally, multiple databases and news outlets report that mass shootings in 2025 fell by roughly a quarter compared with 2024, but available reporting does not provide a consistent, source-verified ...
Different organizations use sharply different thresholds and criteria: the Gun Violence Archive (and media that use it) counts incidents with four or more people shot, excluding the shooter (e.g., GVA...
Multiple reputable post‑election analyses show that the 2024 popular‑vote outcome was driven less by mass party switching than by shifts in who showed up: younger voters, men (especially younger men a...
The United States saw a sharp drop in recorded mass killings and mass shootings in 2025 compared with the spike that began in 2020: multiple databases and news analyses show 2025 tracking as the lowes...
Exit polls and post‑election analyses show Donald Trump improved his standing with lower‑ and middle‑income voters in 2024 while performing better with higher‑income voters than in some prior cycles; ...
2025 saw a surprising decline in the number of U.S. mass killings compared with recent years: databases tracking incidents that meet the FBI/AP definition (four or more deaths in a 24‑hour period, exc...
Democrats’ net seat gains in 2025 were modest and mixed: in state legislative contests Republicans overall flipped “just over 50 seats” from Democrats in 2025 legislative elections (Wikipedia) while D...