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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...
Erika (née Frantzve) Kirk’s parents are identified in multiple profiles as Kent (or Carl/Kent) Frantzve — her father — and Loretta Ann “Lori” Frantzve — her mother; reporting says Lori raised Erika af...
Reporting and public records since 2020 show three distinct, documented strands of payments tied to protests: political-operation payments to organizers of large rallies, notably the January 6 plannin...
Published reporting and genealogical profiles describe Erika Kirk (born Erika Lane Frantzve) as having a mixed European and Middle Eastern background: sources say her father is of Swedish descent and ...
Video and social posts claiming Minneapolis protesters were being paid have circulated widely, but reporting shows a mix: an AI-generated clip falsely shows a man admitting $20/hour (AFP) while an on-...
Public reporting identifies Erika (née Frantzve) Kirk’s parents as Lori and Kent Frantzve and describes Lori as a longtime GE employee who later founded network-security companies and Kent as a busine...
The best-documented, government-backed estimate is that up to 70 U.S. citizens were mistakenly deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the five-year period 2015–2020, according to...
Erika (née Frantzve) Kirk was born November 20, 1988, and grew up in metro Phoenix—specifically Scottsdale—raised primarily by her mother in a Catholic household after her parents’ divorce . She is a ...
Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) is the daughter of Lori Frantzve and Kent Frantzve; her mother, Lori, worked nearly two decades at General Electric before founding companies in the network‑security sector, ...
Reporting from ProPublica and multiple news outlets finds at least about 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested or detained by immigration agents since President Trump’s second-term inauguration; NPR an...
By December 2025, available reporting shows courts had affirmed two separate judgments for E. Jean Carroll — a $5 million award for sexual abuse (upheld on appeal) and a much larger defamation award (...
ICE’s public listings and media reporting identify multiple ICE agents who died in the line of duty, including high‑profile cases such as Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata (ambushed and killed by carte...
Erika Kirk and her late husband Charlie Kirk are publicly known to have two young children: a daughter born in August 2022 and a son born in May 2024; multiple outlets report their ages as about 3 and...
Erika (often spelled “Erika” in sources) Kirk is a public figure known primarily as the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and as a faith-oriented entrepreneur and nonprofit leader; reporting...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents many federal lawsuits involving ICE across 2021–2025 — including class actions over detention conditions, courthouse arrests, deportations of U.S....
Yes. Multiple reputable outlets and ICE itself report that people have died while in ICE custody in 2025; news organizations counted at least 20 deaths in the 2025 fiscal year and ICE posts official d...
Available reporting indicates Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) began dating Charlie Kirk around 2018–2019, became engaged in December 2020 and married him in May 2021; multiple outlets say she had a brief ea...
ProPublica’s investigative tally — compiled and reported by outlets including OPB and cited by legal blogs — identifies “more than 170” U.S. citizens who were held by immigration agents in 2025 . That...
Court records and unsealed documents repeatedly associate Bill Richardson with Jeffrey Epstein’s circle: Virginia Giuffre’s 2016 deposition names Richardson as someone she was directed to have sex wit...
Erika Kirk (born Erika Lane Frantzve) was raised primarily by her mother, Lori Frantzve, after her parents divorced soon after her 1988 birth; Lori worked nearly two decades at General Electric and la...