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Federal and local reporting show that a claim circulated by — that an /HSI agent’s finger was “bit off” during unrest in — exists and was amplified by several outlets, but major independent reporting ...
There is clear, repeated reporting that multiple federal prosecutors and senior Justice Department civil‑rights officials resigned in protest over how the DOJ handled the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ....
Multiple news outlets reported that Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents during a 2024 sting that probed whether he would steer government contracts in a second ...
The Epstein investigative files remained largely unreleased during President Joe Biden’s term primarily because they were part of active criminal investigations, subject to grand-jury secrecy, and ent...
President Trump publicly accused Venezuela of having “stolen” U.S. oil, land and other assets and ordered a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers; U.S. authorities have seized at lea...
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not identify any U.S. senators as “getting money back from Venezuela.” The documents instead show U.S. senators sponsoring legislation...
Newly released documents from the file productions include anonymous complaints was present at gatherings where children were “auctioned” and that he measured girls’ genitals with his fingers and “rat...
’s proposed ballroom has not been judicially halted as of the latest reporting; the has filed suit seeking a preliminary injunction, a federal judge has signaled skepticism of the administration’s leg...
U.S. law‑enforcement agencies have publicly accused Nicolás Maduro of long‑running involvement with large‑scale cocaine trafficking and narco‑terrorism, including indictments and a U.S. reward offer n...
Available reporting collected here does not document any or federal immigration agents that occurred during ’s presidency; the sources instead focus on a spate of fatal and non‑fatal shootings by fede...
Yes — Venezuela has a documented history of seizing foreign oil assets that included U.S. companies, most notably during the Chávez-era nationalizations and subsequent expropriations in the 2000s, tho...
Illegally entering the United States is treated as both a civil and a criminal matter under U.S. law: unauthorized presence and overstaying are principally civil immigration violations that can trigge...
Three types of places now host the court records that were unsealed in connection with Jeffrey Epstein: official court systems and government releases (PACER and, in later actions, DOJ/legislative rel...
As a general rule, modern policing doctrine and federal guidance advise officers not to stand in front of or shoot into moving vehicles and to move out of the vehicle’s path when feasible; shooting at...
A large, multi-year investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social-services programs has resulted in scores of charges concentrated in the Somali diaspora and prompted an aggressive federal enforcemen...
The available reporting indicates that no U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were killed in 2025; coverage from investigative outlets and advocacy groups documents multiple civilian...
The short answer: there is no publicly verified count of how many January 6 rioters are currently ICE agents; reporting shows at least isolated hires tied to the post‑January 6 environment but no conf...
Allegations that Donald Trump had sex with a 13‑year‑old have appeared in civil lawsuits and reporting tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s network, but available sources show those claims have been the subject ...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that presidents receive broad immunity for certain official acts — absolute immunity for core presidential functions and at least presumptive immunity ...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...