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United States Congress

Bicameral legislature of the United States

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Oct 25, 2025
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Did Obama's notification to Congress about the Osama bin Laden raid comply with the War Powers Resolution of 1973?

President Barack Obama did not notify Congress before the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the administration framed the strike as lawful under the 2001 AUMF and principles of self‑defen...

Dec 3, 2025
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How many members of the current U.S. Congress hold dual citizenship and with which countries?

Available reporting in the provided sources does not list a comprehensive count of current U.S. members of Congress who hold dual citizenship nor a definitive country-by-country breakdown; multiple it...

Jan 13, 2026
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What public records exist of Sascha Riley’s testimony to official bodies (police, FBI, or Congressional oversight)?

The only verifiable public materials identified in the supplied reporting are raw audio recordings of Sascha Riley that have been circulated online and a PDF timeline derived from those recordings; mu...

Dec 3, 2025

Sen Kennedy read report on Ilan Omar

Sen. John Kennedy is widely reported in partisan outlets to have publicly presented damaging documents about Rep. Ilhan Omar in November 2025, including claims of diverted funds and problematic person...

Dec 17, 2025

USA gives Israel $10M daily; Israel has free healthcare and college while USA doesn’t

The headline claim compresses several different truths into a misleading soundbite: the United States does provide roughly $3.8 billion a year in baseline military financing to Israel — about $10.4 mi...

Oct 21, 2025

Did Obama's use of military force in Libya in 2011 require congressional approval?

President Obama’s 2011 use of military force in Libya prompted a heated constitutional debate over whether the operation required Congressional approval under the War Powers Resolution; Congress expli...

Dec 12, 2025

Did Chuck Schumer sponsor or co-sponsor any maritime drug enforcement bills in the 1980s?

Available sources show the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 included a subtitle called the "Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986," part of bills H.R.5484/S.2878 in the 99th Co...

Dec 3, 2025

Which U.S. members of Congress hold dual citizenship and from which countries?

Public reporting shows Republican lawmakers have recently pushed bills to ban or disclose dual citizenship and that several members of Congress are foreign‑born or known to have—or be eligible for—for...

Oct 26, 2025

How many Christians have been killed in Nigeria in 2025?

The best available, recent compilations indicate , with specific counts reported as 7,087 and roughly 7,000–7,800 in overlapping reports, and longer-term work claiming much larger cumulative tolls thr...

Dec 3, 2025

How many members of the 119th U.S. Congress hold dual citizenship as of 2025?

Available reporting and public records in the supplied sources do not state a definitive count of how many members of the 119th U.S. Congress hold dual citizenship as of 2025; none of the provided mat...

Dec 1, 2025

Have any current or former U.S. senators or representatives held dual citizenship?

Current reporting and public records show that several past and recent members of Congress have held or been reported to have held dual citizenship — for example, Senator Ted Cruz (U.S.-Canada) and Re...

Dec 3, 2025

How common is dual citizenship among current U.S. members of Congress?

Available reporting lists multiple legislative efforts in 2025 seeking to restrict or force disclosure of dual citizenship among U.S. officials, but those sources do not provide a definitive count of ...

Dec 4, 2025

Did Obama. Kill americans

President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...

Jan 14, 2026

who takes over the government if trump and his entire administrations gets removed from office

If a sitting president and the entire executive branch were simultaneously removed or incapacitated, the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act lay out a specific order: the vice president i...

Dec 2, 2025

What statutes or executive orders authorize use of force at sea against non-state actors involved in drug trafficking?

U.S. statutory authority for using force at sea against non‑state drug traffickers centers on the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) and related statutes that let the Coast Guard and other agen...

Dec 2, 2025

Which current U.S. members of Congress hold dual citizenship as of 2025?

Available reporting in the provided collection does not list or confirm which current U.S. members of Congress hold dual citizenship as of 2025; instead the sources focus on new Republican bills targe...

Oct 21, 2025

What are the historical precedents for White House renovations without Congressional approval?

Historical records show that presidents have long undertaken White House alterations without prior Congressional approval for planning or minor changes, but major reconstructions have typically requir...

Oct 14, 2025

how much money has the us given ukraine

The United States Congress approved and President Biden signed a roughly foreign aid package in April 2024 that allocated about for Ukraine, with the administration moving to ship military equipment a...

Nov 25, 2025

Did biden release the epstein files

Available reporting shows that the Biden Justice Department did hand over large amounts of Epstein-related material to Congress and released documents in phases, but it did not — according to multiple...

Nov 25, 2025

Number of Muslims currently holding public office in the US

Available reporting shows a recent surge in Muslim Americans elected to public office, with multiple outlets reporting "42 Muslim Americans" won races in the 2025 off‑year elections; CAIR has said it ...