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Claims that Ukrainian intelligence deliberately fed “distorted” or false information to U.S. partners as a test — and that those distortions then reached Russian forces — have circulated in foreign me...
Coverage by fact-checkers and contemporaneous reporting shows that the decision to call the National Guard on January 6, 2021, was made by the Capitol Police Board and Pentagon officials, not unilater...
Since 2020 Candace Owens has repeatedly been at the center of high‑profile controversies: her departures and moves between conservative outlets (PragerU to The Daily Wire) and public disputes with Tur...
Congress did not explicitly approve $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks in the One Big Beautiful Bill; the White House announced the payments as financed by tariffs and by money it says flowed through th...
Multiple news reports—many tracing to a Daily Mail story—say Donald Trump instructed senior special-operations commanders to prepare “contingency” or invasion plans for Greenland, but there is no defi...
The United States has committed roughly $174–175 billion in direct financial and security-related assistance to Ukraine through early 2025, of which about $66–69.7 billion is documented as U.S. milita...
Four commercial airliners were hijacked on September 11, 2001: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 struck the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, a...
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...
The available reporting documents a contested legal and political dispute: critics argue that President Trump’s maritime strikes tied to Venezuela risked violating the War Powers Resolution by using m...
U.S. forces remain widely dispersed worldwide: publicly available tallies put more than 160,000 active-duty personnel stationed outside the United States as of mid‑2025, and the Pentagon continues to ...
The $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” payments were announced by President Trump as funded by higher-than-expected tariff revenue, but reporting from congressional and defense sources shows the checks are bei...
Counting "U.S. military strikes" under any president depends on definitions (airstrikes, counterterrorism operations, single strikes vs. campaigns) and reporters’ cutoffs; available sources document m...
The reporting presents several consistent claims: U.S. authorities have broadened their tools to detect and track suspected drug-smuggling vessels—using satellites, signals intelligence, uncrewed airc...
Admiral Alvin Holsey announced he will retire from the U.S. Navy effective December 12, 2025, stepping down as commander of U.S. Southern Command after roughly one year in the post . Media reporting t...
Available reporting does not list a catalog of specific “unlawful orders” that President Trump has given; instead recent coverage centers on Democrats warning troops to refuse unspecified illegal orde...
The District of Columbia National Guard is legally distinct from state guards: it normally reports to the President rather than a mayor or governor, which has allowed recent presidential-directed depl...
Available reporting documents multiple incidents in which U.S. service members were killed during President Joe Biden’s time in office, including 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Afghanistan...
No national government has officially confirmed that extraterrestrial beings are present on or in contact with Earth; multiple fact-checks and news reports state governments have not issued such confi...
The short answer: not routinely, but it is legally and politically possible under narrow circumstances — and courts, governors and the Pentagon have already been fighting over where that line sits. Go...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...