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Scholars and clinicians have produced a steady stream of psychological interpretations of Donald Trump that fall into three clusters: trait-based descriptions (narcissism, aggression, impulsivity), na...
Both major U.S. parties express high levels of hostility toward the other, and multiple surveys show , but there is no consensus that one side overwhelmingly “hates” the other more. Large, recent nati...
Federal reporting and advocacy documents say the Trump administration targeted hundreds to thousands of federally funded research awards, including cancer grants: reporting cites about $1–2.3 billion ...
Major recent studies and reviews show undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are arrested and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: a Texas-based NIJ-funded analysis found undocumented peo...
Major chains and a handful of investment firms control a growing share of U.S. newspapers: Gannett (rebranded USA Today Co.) is the largest owner with about 310 papers in 2024, and the 10 largest comp...
Chicago’s crime picture since President Trump’s 2020 federal intervention proposal is mixed but leans toward according to the compiled sources: some reports show modest citywide drops in 2024 while ot...
Research does not support a simple claim that immigrants lower U.S. test scores or raise crime. Multiple peer-reviewed and policy studies find immigrant presence often correlates with equal or higher ...
Yes — U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained and, in documented instances, deported or nearly deported by federal immigration authorities; a growing body of investigative reporting, congressional...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-linked studies converge on the finding that , with several analyses reporting roughly a 60% lower incarceration or offending rate among immigrants. This pattern a...
A review of the provided reporting finds no peer‑reviewed clinical trials of the branded supplement Neurocept itself cited in these sources, while the most concrete trial evidence mentioned relates to...
Federal and state suits over Trump University were resolved by a $25 million settlement finalized in 2018 and upheld on appeal, splitting payment to a class of former students and New York’s attorney ...
The term “white power” refers to a long-standing movement of organized white supremacist groups and networks that coalesced in the 1970s–80s and has inspired both targeted violence and plots against i...
mRNA boosters commonly produce transient local and systemic reactions — injection-site pain, fatigue, headache, muscle aches — and have been linked to rare myocarditis/pericarditis cases (for example ...
Available reporting identifies two different figures named Dave(n) Van Zandt. One is David E. Van Zandt, an academic who led The New School and has board roles including AMC Networks and the American ...
Major international and U.S. media organizations — including legacy broadcasters (BBC, Reuters), U.S. outlets (CNN, PBS, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time) and many local and international outlets — covere...
A focused ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines (or a broader gun ban) would likely reduce the lethality and incidence of some public mass shootings, but it would not eliminate mass shoot...
The 1619 Project reframed public debate by centering slavery and its legacies in the American story, winning acclaim and a Pulitzer while provoking sustained scholarly and political backlash over fact...
Multiple professional engineering teams and independent researchers investigated the World Trade Center collapses beyond ASCE/ASME-led efforts; prominent groups include university researchers (e.g., Z...
Claims and debates about “Trump’s academic credentials” do not appear in the supplied reporting; most documents focus on the Trump administration’s actions toward higher education — notably the “Compa...
The broad body of recent research shows , and many studies find they are substantially less likely to be incarcerated or arrested for felony offenses. National and long-run analyses — including a Nort...