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The Access Hollywood recording is a 2005 off‑camera conversation in which Donald Trump boasted about kissing and touching women without waiting for consent and used the phrase widely reported as “grab...
Hugo Chávez’s government seized or nationalized foreign oil assets in multiple waves, most prominently in 2007 when it reasserted state control over Orinoco heavy‑oil projects operated by major intern...
Since 2015 China’s oil-for-loans relationship with Venezuela shifted from aggressive expansion and fresh credit to cautious preservation, restructuring and in-kind repayment—driven by collapsing Venez...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative percentage for “what percentage of Somalis voted for Trump.” Multiple outlets document that some Somali and Somali‑American voters supporte...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a civil immigration agency whose legal authority targets noncitizens, and the Obama administration directed ICE to prioritize immigrants with criminal reco...
At least one sitting U.S. senator is a naturalized citizen — Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is identified as the lone naturalized senator in recent counts . The House list of foreign‑born members in t...
Data and reporting show Somali-American voting in 2024 was not monolithic: in Minnesota — the country’s largest Somali community — support for the Democratic presidential ticket fell relative to 2020 ...
The available sources reproduce a verbatim transcript of the 2005 Access Hollywood conversation in which Donald Trump and Billy Bush discuss women; major outlets and archives published full or near-fu...
Available sources report that ICE carried out very large numbers of arrests and removals during the Obama years, with peaks in the late 2000s and early 2010s: Migration Policy notes peaks in removals ...
Ten House Republicans voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack; none of the House GOP voted for the first impeachment (though former Republican Justin Amash — by then an in...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act, enacted as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, relaxed a long-standing prohibition that had largely prevented U.S.-produced public diplomacy materia...
Reporting shows Scott Ritter is a frequent contributor to Russian state media (RT, Sputnik) and has been welcomed and amplified by Russian outlets and officials; U.S. authorities searched his home in ...
Muslim Americans have steadily risen in local and municipal leadership across the U.S., with documented historic milestones including Sadaf Jaffer as the first female Muslim mayor in the U.S. (Montgom...
The Smith–Mundt Act of 1948 (formally the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act) was enacted to authorize and shape U.S. government information and cultural programs overseas — to “pr...
Local reporting and post‑election surveys indicate a measurable shift of Somali‑American voters toward Republicans in 2024 compared with 2016 and 2020: polls show Somali support for the Democratic tic...
Ukraine has not enacted a blanket legal ban on speaking Russian in private or in everyday life, but since 2019 and especially after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion Kyiv has tightened laws and local ...
At the opening of the 119th Congress, 32 members of Congress were born outside the United States — 26 Representatives and six Senators — but the public record compiled by the sources provided does not...
Available reporting points to Minnesota as the single state with the clearest, best-documented high Somali‑American electoral engagement in 2024, with secondary evidence suggesting active Somali commu...
There is no single published figure in the supplied reporting that gives a nationwide turnout rate specifically for "Somali‑American eligible voters" in 2024; available sources discuss high local enga...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization provisions were folded into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013 and primarily changed the domestic dissemination limits of the 1948 U.S. Information and Edu...