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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 ....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tyler Bowyer (sometimes spelled “Bowyer”/“Boyer” in coverage) was identified in multiple news reports as one of the Arizona “fake electors” tied to the Dec. 14, 2020 effort to certify a pro‑Trump slat...
President Joe Biden granted a historic total of individual acts of clemency — 4,245 pardons and commutations over his term — and used large-scale proclamations and mass commutations in his final weeks...
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 ...
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 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...
There is substantial reporting linking Venezuelan officials and businessmen to multi‑million and billion‑dollar bribery and money‑laundering schemes — including a U.S. case that traced more than $1 bi...
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...
Unredacted photos released by Democrats from the Jeffrey Epstein estate include an image of a young Donald Trump standing among six women wearing what appear to be Hawaiian leis; multiple outlets repo...
Multiple lawsuits and released documents have tied Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s social circle and to allegations that Epstein trafficked young women; an anonymous plaintiff has alleged Trump rape...
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 ...