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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
’s presidency the federal immigration enforcement posture shifted away from the spectacle of large, helicopter‑style workplace raids toward targeted operations, employer prosecutions and administrativ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
faces sustained, well-documented accusations from scholars, NGOs and commentators that policies he ran—most notably expanded , alleged “double-tap” attacks, and support for partners in and elsewhere—m...
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...
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 ...
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...
Democratic administrations generally pursue : raising top individual and corporate rates, expanding credits for lower‑ and middle‑income households, increasing IRS enforcement, and sometimes proposing...
ICE enforcement has shifted in emphasis and methods since the Obama era: the Obama administration combined high aggregate removals with a clearer prioritization on criminals and recent border crossers...
Across multiple datasets and reporting windows, presided over higher aggregate departures (driven largely by voluntary “returns” at the border) than ’s first term and, depending on the metric and time...
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...