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Donald Trump received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam-era Selective Service process — four for college and a fifth for a medical diagnosis (bone spurs) — and therefore did not serve in Vi...
Year-by-year CPI inflation numbers by calendar year are reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and summarized in many outlets; available reporting shows inflation peaked near 9.1% in mid‑2022 duri...
Estimates vary depending on the measure: "encounters" at the border number in the millions (for example, roughly from Feb. 2021–Sept. 2024) while government processing produced roughly 2.5 million rel...
The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
The most consistent, recent official figure is that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employs , but that total is not a precise count of sworn deportation agents and varies by source and ...
Estimates vary because officials, analysts and media use different measures: Border Patrol “encounters” since January 2021 exceed 10 million, about 8 million at the southwest land border, but that raw...
Requests for a “top 10 positive accomplishments” of Donald Trump’s second presidential term must rely on partisan claims, executive actions, and early statutory wins rather than an authoritative, neut...
Deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in fiscal year (FY) 2025: reporting outlets and advocacy tallies put the count at roughly 20–23 deaths through late 2025, the highest annual total since the ea...
Quantifying annual deportations by U.S. president since 1990 is complicated by multiple data categories (formal “removals,” “returns,” Title 42 expulsions and voluntary departures) and by different ag...
Comparing “better” under Biden or Trump depends on which metrics you use: inflation was much higher early in Biden’s term (peaking around 9% in 2022) but came down later, while early in Trump’s second...
U.S. oil companies have repeatedly filed claims and won international arbitration awards against Venezuela for past expropriations and lost investments, but those legal victories have not translated i...
DHS and ICE statistics show large, but differently counted, numbers for people removed from the United States: ICE and DHS dashboards report roughly 330,000 “removals” (often called deportations) in f...
Available reporting and government data show the number of deportations (officially “removals”) fluctuated across the Biden years, with DHS/ICE figures placing removals and faster border “returns” in ...
A widespread belief that " opened the borders" stems from a mix of policy reversals of -era controls, visible spikes in border encounters, and a loud political narrative amplified by opponents and con...
ICE is being followed, confronted and filmed in unprecedented numbers now because the agency’s operations under the current administration are more public, more numerous, and explicitly politicized — ...
The available analyses do not support a simple answer to “Who kills more — Republicans or Democrats?” Different measures yield different patterns: state-level homicide rates have been higher in Republ...
Donald Trump’s second term so far is defined by a barrage of executive actions—218 executive orders as of early December 2025—and a small number of high-profile legislative wins such as the One Big Be...
Donald Trump moved from guest and critic to formal chairman of the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees early in his second term, a takeover that included firing the institution’s president, installing ...
Official and independent sources offer three competing pictures of 2025 deportations: Department of Homeland Security releases claim roughly half a million to more than 600,000 removals tied to the ad...
Available reporting shows there was intense public pressure in 2024–2025 to make Jeffrey Epstein–related Justice Department files public, and Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in Nove...