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The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) of 1986 gives the United States broad law‑enforcement jurisdiction to board, seize, and prosecute drug trafficking on vessels on the high seas and to trea...
Candace Owens has repeatedly promoted high-profile conspiracy narratives in 2025, most prominently casting doubt on the official account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and advancing a multi-part theo...
Candace Owens publicly accused people inside Charlie Kirk’s circle — later naming Kirk’s security provider and alleging U.S. military involvement — in a series of posts and broadcast segments that pro...
U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
Candace Owens has repeatedly made direct, specific claims about Charlie Kirk’s death — including that he sent a last-night warning (“They are going to kill me”), that people inside Turning Point USA k...
Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...
Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...
Donald Trump did not serve in the U.S. military; contemporary reporting and fact-checks note he attended a military-style academy as a youth and was medically deferred from Vietnam-era service for a f...
The available reporting presents tying the Venezuelan-crewed boats to drug trafficking: local interviews in Venezuela describe the deceased as low-level boat crews paid small sums to run drugs, while ...
Candace Owens has spent months promoting multiple, evolving conspiracy theories about the September assassination of Charlie Kirk, alleging everything from foreign involvement to a U.S. military role,...
Bill Clinton did not serve in the U.S. military; during the Vietnam era he used legally available educational deferments, drew a high lottery number that made induction unlikely, was reclassified and ...
The speedboat struck by a recent U.S. military action was carrying a large quantity of cocaine, with Dominican authorities reporting recovery of — roughly — supporting the claim it was a drug-smugglin...
M855 is a 62‑grain 5.56×45mm NATO ball cartridge widely used since the early 1980s; published technical sources list muzzle velocities around 2,970–3,150 ft/s for related variants and a G7 ballistic c...
Judy Byington’s “Restored Republic” updates, published on American Media Group (AMG) and republished widely, repeatedly claim mass arrests, military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), lists of high‑...
There is no allegation in the available reporting that the U.S. military has definitively carried out an illegal order under the Trump administration; reporters and legal experts instead focus on a re...
The aircraft widely described in reporting was , and was accepted into U.S. government custody in 2025 for use as a temporary Air Force One; conflicting reporting places acceptance in with later notic...
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for to persons serving in or with U.S. Armed Forces on or after December 7, 1941; it may carry a “V” device for valor and is authorized for U.S. service members, certa...
Claims tying Sen. Mark Kelly directly to a George Soros “plot” or to organizations “fomenting sedition” are circulating in partisan outlets and social posts; mainstream outlets show a broader campaign...
Available reporting about allegations against Otto A. Busher III is sparse and comes mainly from activist and social-media posts and a republished complaint; those materials claim a 2019 criminal comp...
U.S. military law requires service members to obey lawful orders and to refuse unlawful ones; the primary statutory baseline is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 892), an...