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The Weeknd

Canadian singer and songwriter

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Dec 14, 2025
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Do ice agents have more criminal records against them than the immigrants they arrest

Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...

Nov 24, 2025
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Has Robert De Niro publicly announced major donations to hunger relief organizations?

Public reporting shows Robert De Niro has publicly supported and promoted fundraising drives that directed donations to hunger-relief groups — notably endorsing the All In Challenge that routed funds ...

Nov 15, 2025
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safest country in full scale nuclear war 2025

No single country is universally "safe" in a full‑scale nuclear exchange; several recent pieces of reporting and analyses name Argentina, Australia, Iceland and remote parts of countries (and parts of...

Dec 7, 2025

Is there evidence linking Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to vision loss or blindness?

Recent peer‑reviewed and media reports describe a small Turkish study that found short‑term corneal changes after two doses of the Pfizer‑BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine (BNT162b2), including slight corneal...

Dec 9, 2025

Who is Richard Godfrey and what is his background in aviation or oceanography?

Richard Godfrey is a British researcher best known for independent work trying to locate Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370; he presents himself as a retired aerospace/systems engineer with a background i...

Dec 13, 2025

Donald Trump issues World War III warning

President Donald Trump warned that the continuation of the Russia–Ukraine war could "end up in a third world war" and said "everybody keeps playing games" — remarks reported after Oval Office comments...

Nov 27, 2025

Why did Donald Trump leave Fordham and transfer to Penn—was it academic, personal, or family reasons?

Donald Trump attended Fordham University from 1964–1966 and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, graduating in 1968; reporting and biographical sources attribute the mo...

Dec 3, 2025

Which countries have the most geographically remote and survivable locations in a full-scale nuclear war late 2025?

Multiple recent analyses and news pieces identify southern-hemisphere, remote island and agriculturally self-sufficient countries — notably Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and parts of South America —...

Jan 16, 2026

odds of www3

Consensus among public trackers and some expert-roundup reporting places the near‑term odds of a global, alliance‑triggering "World War III" in the non‑negligible but not imminent range — commonly cit...

Dec 13, 2025

Which countries have set the age of consent for pornographic content above 18 and what ages do they use?

A number of countries set either their unrestricted age of consent or the minimum age for participating in pornography at 18 or higher; sources identify specific countries with ages above 18 or unusua...

Nov 25, 2025

Has Owens' podcast, book sales, or speaking fees been impacted by controversy or boycotts?

Reporting shows Candace Owens has faced concrete commercial and access impacts tied to controversy: YouTube suspended her channel in September 2023 and she later returned to promote her podcast (ADL) ...

Nov 24, 2025

What evidence supports or contradicts Candace Owens' statements about Tyler Robinson?

Candace Owens has repeatedly questioned the official account that Tyler Robinson was the lone shooter in the September 2025 killing of Charlie Kirk, arguing Robinson’s timeline, forensic role, and dig...

Nov 24, 2025

Swallowing a gum stays on your stomach

The long-running claim that swallowed chewing gum “stays in your stomach for seven years” is false: medical experts and science writers say gum is not digested but is moved through the gut and usually...

Nov 18, 2025

Who is Traoré and what specific claims did he make about the Israeli spy ring?

The name "Traoré" does not appear in the available reporting about the Houthi announcement of an alleged Saudi‑American‑Israeli spy ring in Yemen; available sources focus on Houthi statements naming t...

Nov 18, 2025

safest country in nuclear war 2025

Experts and media in 2024–2025 repeatedly point to remote, agriculturally capable Southern Hemisphere countries (notably Australia and New Zealand) and isolated island nations (Iceland, New Zealand, P...

Jan 17, 2026

trilogy breakdowns in music

Trilogies in music are three-album runs that critics, fans or artists frame as a coherent unit—sometimes by design, sometimes by retrospective labeling—and they matter because they can mark stylistic ...

Jan 4, 2026

Which media outlets first published Jarl Alé de Basseville’s claims about the 1995 shoot, and how did they report the subsequent dispute?

The first public airing of Jarl Alé de Basseville’s account that the nude “lesbian-themed” photos of Melania Trump were taken in New York in 1995 appeared as part of a late‑July/early‑August 2016 tabl...

Dec 7, 2025

Which ideology in the u.s. comics the most political violence

There is no single U.S. comics “ideology” that clearly “uses the most political violence”; contemporary print and online comics and political cartoons span the political spectrum and frequently depict...

Nov 14, 2025

Did Paolo Zampolli appear on flight logs, guest lists, or event rosters alongside Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump?

Available reporting shows multiple contemporary articles and profiles that say Paolo Zampolli introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump and that Zampolli moved in the same social circles as Jeffrey Eps...

Oct 1, 2025

Did Trump say he would fire generals if he didn't like them

President Trump publicly told senior military leaders he would remove them if he found them unsuitable, including statements that he could fire them “on the spot” and that officers who disagreed could...