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The headline claim compresses several different truths into a misleading soundbite: the United States does provide roughly $3.8 billion a year in baseline military financing to Israel — about $10.4 mi...
Estimates of deaths tied to the Afghanistan wars since 2001 vary widely by category and source: Brown University’s Costs of War project counts more than 940,000 direct deaths across five post‑9/11 the...
Yes — a small rare‑earths startup called Vulcan Elements secured a conditional $620 million loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital as part of a larger $1.4 billion package; Vulcan had ta...
Available reporting in the provided documents links the name Otto (A.) Busher III to two very different contexts: a 2025 application listing for a Cheshire County Shooting Sports Education Foundation ...
U.S. forces in Europe are funded through a mix of regular Department of Defense appropriations and targeted programs such as the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), which had a FY2025 request of $2....
Available reporting and public records in the supplied sources show Mexico has not directly paid the U.S. government for border-wall construction since 2017; U.S. federal agencies and departments — in...
A Gold Star Mother is commonly defined as a woman whose child died while serving in the U.S. armed forces; official uses tie the term to deaths “in action” or “in the line of duty” and the Gold Star l...
States generally let residents refuse a REAL ID — your standard state license continues to work for driving, voting and many everyday uses — but after May 7, 2025 federal checkpoints (airports, some f...
Counting U.S. military deaths across “major American wars” requires choices about which conflicts to include and whether to count battle deaths only or all service-related deaths; available compiled t...
Claims that “Biden gave Ukraine $350 billion” have circulated repeatedly in recent reports quoting former President Trump and pro‑Russian outlets; multiple pieces in the Pravda network repeat the figu...
Recent coverage shows officials and lawmakers have urged U.S. service members that they may refuse “illegal” or “unlawful” orders, but the public materials cited by news organizations do not list a fo...
Yes — individuals can decline a REAL ID and keep a non‑REAL ID state license, but after May 7, 2025 that non‑REAL ID credential will not be acceptable for many federal purposes (including boarding dom...
Multiple news outlets report that men identified by the Pentagon as U.S. Department of Defense contractors — not active-duty troops — landed by boat at Playa Bagdad in northeast Mexico on Nov. 17 and ...
NBC News and multiple outlets report that changing the U.S. Department of Defense’s name to the “Department of War” could cost roughly up to $2 billion, with some estimates framing lower-end figures “...
Available official and research sources report different totals and methods for counting U.S. aid to Ukraine since 2021: the State Department tallies roughly $66.9 billion in U.S. military assistance ...
Social media users have long tied “steak and lobster” (surf-and-turf) meals to an imminent deployment or “last meal” ritual; recent viral videos show U.S. soldiers eating such meals but available repo...
Court‑martials of sitting U.S. senators are essentially unheard of in modern reporting; recent threats to recall retired Sen. Mark Kelly for possible court‑martial are newsworthy but not precedent set...
There is no direct documentation in the provided reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has, in the past decade, contracted foreign military or foreign police trainers to provide training ...
The phrase "Gold Star Mom" traces to World War I service-flag traditions and today generally denotes a mother who lost a child while that child served in the U.S. armed forces; the most formal definit...
U.S. domestic law authorizes a range of drug-interdiction activities, including interdiction on the high seas, in U.S. territorial waters, and at ports of entry by federal agencies; the Department of ...