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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 26, 2026
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Did us government pass a bill to allow remote shut down of vehicles?

did not pass a law that gives the U.S. government blanket authority to remotely shut down every car; what passed in the bipartisan infrastructure legislation requires automakers to equip new passenger...

Jan 13, 2026

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 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...

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 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...

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...

Jan 27, 2026

How many us citizens were detained by ICE during the past five years

Available, verifiable government-watchdog reporting establishes a demonstrable floor: people identified as U.S. citizens were detained by in the period analyzed by the — a conservative minimum — but o...

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...

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...

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...

Jan 24, 2026

Is it illegal to be a sanctuary city

Being a “” is not per se a federal crime—there is no single federal statute that outlaws a local government declaring sanctuary practices—but sanctuary policies occupy a contested legal and political ...

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 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 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 31, 2026

congress votes to impeach trump

Congress has again moved to : multiple House resolutions were filed in 2025 and 2026 and held floor votes that advanced or tabled impeachment measures, including a December 11, 2025 roll call where 14...

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...

Jan 26, 2026

What are ICE and Border Patrol budgets in 2025 and 2026?

Two competing streams of numbers describe for and : baseline administration budget requests and a large 2025 congressional “reconciliation” package that redirected unprecedented sums to ; the reconcil...