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The Center Square

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Nov 18, 2025
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Which individuals serve on Turning Point USA’s board of directors and affiliated boards in 2025?

Turning Point USA’s own governance page lists a five-member Board of Directors in 2025 — Charlie Kirk, David Engelhardt, Doug DeGroote, Mike Miller and Tom Sodeika — and an Honorary Board that include...

Nov 25, 2025
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Did Somalian commit fraud in Minnesota?

Federal prosecutors and investigative outlets have uncovered and reported large, multi-program fraud schemes in Minnesota that involve dozens of defendants and millions — by some accounts hundreds of ...

Oct 21, 2025
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How are protests and civil unrest typically organized and funded in the United States?

Protests and civil unrest in the United States are rarely the product of a single funder or organizer; they typically involve a mix of national networks, local groups, grassroots participants, paid st...

Dec 7, 2025

How many registered Republicans are in Ohio as of 2025?

Ohio’s statewide voter registration database listed about 8.1 million registered voters in mid‑2024 and—according to reporting that cites the Secretary of State’s data—1.5 million registered Republica...

Oct 26, 2025

What are the most significant criticisms of the Open Society Foundations' funding priorities?

The most prominent recent criticisms allege that the Open Society Foundations (OSF) funneled to organizations the critics say are tied to extremist or terrorist activity, sparking investigations and b...

Oct 16, 2025

southern border biden administration

The competing claims about the Biden administration and the southern border center on two measurable assertions: the scale of encounters at the border since 2021 and whether border conditions indicate...

Oct 28, 2025

What percentage of the border wall was built in areas where no barrier previously existed?

The available reporting does answer because official DHS/CBP releases and multiple news reports list added miles and contracts but do not provide a clear breakdown of how much construction occurred in...

Dec 1, 2025

Did US tax dollars pay for homosexual men dance classes in Haiti

A Republican lawmaker recently claimed U.S. aid included “$3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti,” a line reported and repeated in at least one ne...

Jan 24, 2026

What are the costs and budget projections for California's undocumented immigrant health coverage in 2024–2026?

’s 2024 expansion to cover low‑income adults regardless of immigration status created new near‑term spending obligations estimated by state analysts and advocacy groups in the low billions, while the ...

Jan 18, 2026

What evidence links the Dallas Express to Metric Media or other conservative media networks?

Reporting from D Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review/Tow Center and others found multiple signals tying the resurrected Dallas Express to the Metric Media “pink slime” network — including contemp...

Dec 2, 2025

Which private donors have been publicly associated with antifa and what are their motivations?

Reporting does not identify a roster of named wealthy private donors publicly tied to “antifa” as a single organization; instead, available sources describe decentralized crowdfunding, small-donor “de...

Oct 11, 2025

Which media outlets have reported being censored or restricted under Biden's administration?

The claims center on two threads: that senior Biden administration officials pressured tech platforms—especially Google/YouTube—to remove or restrict COVID-19-related content, and that the Pentagon (o...

Jan 28, 2026

Which Virginia lawmakers support and oppose HB863, and what are their stated reasons?

is a high-profile 2026 proposal to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for a list of offenses; it has been championed by as judicial discretion reform and criticized by , law-enforcement groups and ...

Jan 5, 2026

How many gender affirming surgeries have happened to trans youth?

Across multiple peer‑reviewed studies and investigative reports, gender‑affirming surgeries for minors in the United States are consistently described as rare; exact counts vary by dataset and definit...

Jan 4, 2026

Which US news sources have been accused of having a liberal or conservative bias by media watchdog groups?

Media watchdog groups of different political persuasions have repeatedly accused specific U.S. news organizations of ideological slants: progressive groups like Media Matters and FAIR often single out...

Dec 13, 2025

Have any state supreme courts invalidated their own state's red flag law and what was the reasoning?

A handful of state trial‑level judges have declared parts of their state “red flag” or extreme‑risk protection order (ERPO) regimes unconstitutional, most notably in New York where state Supreme Court...

Nov 15, 2025

chicago murder rate ranked by city

Claims that “Chicago has the highest murder rate among U.S. cities” are contested in recent reporting and depend entirely on which dataset, city sample and population cutoffs are used: some analyses o...

Nov 13, 2025

Which U.S. senators or members of Congress appear in Jeffrey Epstein flight logs and on what dates (year included)?

The materials provided do not produce a verified, itemized list of U.S. senators or members of Congress who appear in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs with corresponding dates. Public summaries and repor...

Nov 8, 2025

How would Republican spending cuts or policy riders affect domestic programs and military funding in a 2025 shutdown?

A 2025 shutdown driven by Republican demands for spending cuts or policy riders would sharply reallocate immediate priorities, preserving some while curtailing discretionary domestic programs and crea...

Oct 20, 2025

Are there any credible sources confirming or denying George Soros' involvement with the No Kings protests?

A review of the available reporting shows that George Soros personally organized or directly coordinated the "No Kings" protests; claims of Soros funding point mainly to grant relationships between ph...