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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...
between and National Guard is highly unlikely to produce a clear battlefield-style “victor”; instead, any clash would most likely be a political and legal standoff shaped by jurisdiction, rules of eng...
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...
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
Yes: ’s newly released elevates homeland defense and explicitly frames a risk environment in which adversaries can directly threaten — calling out long‑range missiles, and drones as factors that compr...
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...
’s newly released elevated homeland defense and warned that foreign — notably and — are increasingly capable of threatening territory, but the documents and reporting do not amount to a narrow, immedi...
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...
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...
are being deployed to a mix of cities across the country — prominently to and other urban areas — as part of a large, multi-pronged enforcement campaign that has involved , , support and even and acti...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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...