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NPR

American nonprofit media organization

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Jan 25, 2026
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How many people has ice shot and killed

Contemporary reporting and compiled trackers show a involving federal immigration agents since January 2025, with multiple fatal incidents that have driven national protests and political debate; pres...

Nov 20, 2025
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how many us citizens have been detained or picked up by ice

Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...

Jan 26, 2026
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How many crimes are committed by illegal immigrants

The best available, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses indicate that undocumented (illegal) immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native‑born citizens, with multiple studies finding s...

Dec 4, 2025

How many pardons and clemencies did Biden give

President Joe Biden granted a historic total of individual acts of clemency — 4,245 pardons and commutations over his term — and used large-scale proclamations and mass commutations in his final weeks...

Nov 26, 2025

how many us citizens have been arrested by ice

Reporting and investigations in 2025 have documented at least "more than 170" U.S. citizens arrested or detained by immigration agents since President Trump’s second term began; ProPublica’s tally is ...

Dec 13, 2025

How many people died in ICE detention each year since 2015 and how do totals compare annually?

Deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in fiscal year (FY) 2025: reporting outlets and advocacy tallies put the count at roughly 20–23 deaths through late 2025, the highest annual total since the ea...

Jan 12, 2026

What specific mentions of 'William Riley' appear in the DOJ Epstein files and where are they sourced from?

The name "William Riley" (sometimes shortened to "Riley" or "Bill Riley") appears in the public aggregator of DOJ/EFTA materials identified by Epstein researchers and hobbyist databases, with specific...

Dec 21, 2025

Which drug dealers did Donald Trump pardon or commute and what were their offenses?

Donald Trump has used his clemency power to pardon or commute multiple people tied to large-scale drug trafficking, drug marketplaces and related criminal enterprises — most prominently Ross Ulbricht ...

Jan 14, 2026

Which major news outlets consistently rank as 'least biased' across multiple rating systems in 2025–2026?

Major outlets that repeatedly appear near the “least biased” or “center” zones across respected third‑party rating systems in 2025–2026 include Reuters, the Associated Press (AP), BBC and NPR for thei...

Nov 29, 2025

Are there legal disputes or custody issues involving Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirk's family?

Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, has been the subject of court action and public scrutiny since her husband was fatally shot on Sept. 10, 2025: a Utah judge issued a pretrial protective order barrin...

Nov 30, 2025

How many Somali immigrants have been deported from the US since 2020?

Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative total for how many Somali nationals were deported from the United States since 2020; different sources report related figures — for example...

Nov 28, 2025

Has ICE abducted or deported legal US citizens?

Available reporting and government reviews show that ICE has in multiple past instances detained and—according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding—deported U.S. citizens (GAO coun...

Dec 5, 2025

How much illegal fentanyl in the US originates from China versus Mexico?

Law enforcement and analysts say the U.S. illicit-fentanyl supply chain is a two-country system: Chinese chemical manufacturers and brokers supply most precursor chemicals, while Mexican cartels have ...

Dec 4, 2025

How many unarmed Black people have been killed by police in the U.S. each year since 2015?

Available reporting and databases disagree on counting methods, but multiple reputable sources using crowd‑tracked datasets show a measurable number of unarmed Black people killed by police since 2015...

Dec 9, 2025

What religion did Charlie Kirk grow up in and how did it influence his politics?

Charlie Kirk was raised in an evangelical Protestant environment and publicly identified as an evangelical Christian; he attended Christian schools and said he “gave his life to Jesus” at a young age,...

Jan 23, 2026

Is Obama in the Epstein files

The name “” does appear in records connected to and in media reporting about the massive , but those appearances are peripheral — administrative or biographical references, mentions of former Obama of...

Jan 25, 2026

Trump legal team resigns before chutkan 10 Jan 2026

There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that “’s legal team resigned before on Jan. 10, 2026”; the record instead shows contentious courtroom exchanges with Chutkan and separate personn...

Jan 24, 2026

How are Ice protestors getting funding?

Public reporting does not provide a clear ledger of dollars handed to street-level demonstrators opposing ; instead the coverage documents a political and organizational ecosystem — congressional appr...

Jan 14, 2026

How many felonies had Trump been convicted of?

Donald J. Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts—each count is a New York state charge for falsifying business records stemming from the so‑called "hush‑money" case—a verdict recorded by the Man...

Nov 14, 2025

Who is paying the agitators protesting ICE in Chicago? How much do these protestors get paid?

Reporting on the Chicago protests against ICE and “Operation Midway Blitz” does not identify any organized program that is paying “agitators” to protest, nor does it provide evidence of standard wages...