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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...
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...
Yes: organized protests and high-profile public pushback against and occurred repeatedly during ’s terms, ranging from rallies and fasts to disruptive actions at political events; however, the availab...
Available reporting does not document a clear, verified case of a protester being killed while participating in demonstrations specifically opposing ‑era immigration arrests; the record instead shows ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
A definitive roster of current House members who are naturalized U.S. citizens is published by the ; that document lists every foreign‑born Representative and their places of birth . Public analyses b...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
The Smith-Mundt Act’s original ban on domestic dissemination of U.S. government foreign propaganda sought to prevent the government from targeting Americans with state-produced information; its partia...
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...
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...
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...
Yes — have charged individuals described in indictments as members of “” cells in at least one high‑profile ‑led investigation: the /Alvarado detention‑center attack case in produced terrorism‑related...