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Former President Barack Obama ordered multiple military strikes and sustained air campaigns without new, specific congressional authorizations — notably interventions in Libya and expanded airstrikes ...
Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...
President Obama’s administrations oversaw millions of removals—already described in government and media analyses as “historic” totals—but his enforcement policy shifted toward prioritizing recent bor...
Counting "U.S. military strikes" under any president depends on definitions (airstrikes, counterterrorism operations, single strikes vs. campaigns) and reporters’ cutoffs; available sources document m...
Barack Obama was widely called the “deporter‑in‑chief” because his administrations’ removal totals across DHS statistics were among the highest in recent decades: several sources show more than 2 mill...
Comparing U.S. mass‑shooting trends across presidential terms is difficult because the underlying counts are small, definitions vary and year‑to‑year volatility is high; RAND and reporting note that c...
Average retail gasoline prices during Donald Trump’s presidency (2017–2021) sat in the mid-to-high $2 per gallon range annually, lower than the highs reached in 2022 but similar to or slightly below a...
Donald Trump’s approval during his second term has generally trended in the high‑30s to low‑40s across major trackers, hitting Gallup lows near 36–37% and aggregate measures near the low‑40s, while re...
Estimates of civilian deaths tied to U.S. strikes differ sharply by methodology and time period: Airwars estimated roughly 2,300–3,400 civilian deaths in the coalition fight against IS under Obama whi...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded President Barack H. Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize chiefly for his stated efforts to , his early initiatives to advocate nuclear arms reduction and a vision for...
Under President Obama, removals (formal deportations) were high relative to prior administrations and focused increasingly on two groups: noncitizens with criminal convictions and recent unauthorized ...
The CIA was a central and active operator in President Obama’s drone-strike campaign, conducting a substantial share of covert strikes—especially in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia—and expanding capabili...
The Obama administration massively expanded U.S. strike-by-drone operations compared with its predecessor and formalized a centralized legal and interagency approval process — while also taking increm...
President Barack Obama's military intervention policies shifted U.S. practice away from large-scale, marquee ground wars toward a , prioritizing cost containment and legal constraints. Analysts disagr...
The NESARA acronym and policy blueprint trace back to Harvey Francis Barnard, a teacher and systems engineer who in the 1990s drafted a sweeping package of hypothetical tax and monetary reforms he cal...
Published tallies disagree sharply about how many drone or “air” strikes occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency because researchers use different geographies, agencies and definitions; independent ...
The Obama administration used DHS and ICE definitions that distinguished as compulsory, formal departures based on an order of removal and as non‑order departures such as voluntary returns, voluntary ...
Democratic administrations generally pursue : raising top individual and corporate rates, expanding credits for lower‑ and middle‑income households, increasing IRS enforcement, and sometimes proposing...
During the Obama years, ICE paired nationally declared enforcement priorities with programmatic tools—Secure Communities fingerprint-sharing, ICE detainers and targeted operations such as gang sweeps—...
Donald J. Trump’s second-term use of the pardon power has produced an unusually large tally early in the presidency — including a roughly 1,500-person mass pardon for Jan. 6 defendants on January 20, ...