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Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Multiple included sources report Joe Biden alive through late 2025 and describe his public appearances and health updates; a November 2025 death hoax circulated online but was refuted in reporting cit...
Democrats held both chambers of Congress (House and Senate) together during the 21st century in the 110th Congress (2007–2009) after the 2006 elections and again during the 117th Congress (2021–2023) ...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used, but not in the way some headlines imply: its provisions have been invoked multiple times to fill vacancies and to temporarily transfer power when presidents w...
Multiple provided sources confirm , but the documentation in the supplied materials covers deaths only through May 21, 2025 and does not produce a comprehensive year-end count. The verifiable minimum ...
is a senior American career diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador after more than three decades in the Foreign Service, serving in a string of high‑level posts including U.S. Ambassador t...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been formally invoked in several distinct ways since its ratification in 1967: its temporary-transfer clause (Section 3) has been used three times, its vacancy-filling c...
Multiple major news organizations and reference works report that former Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney died on November 3, 2025, at age 84; family statements and outlets cite complications o...
The U.S. Flag Code governs many formal flag practices — for example, it says the flag “should never touch anything beneath it” and specifies half‑staff rules for officials such as presidents and vice ...
The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment’s Section 3 — the president’s voluntary, written transfer of powers to the vice president — has been used a handful of times for planned medical procedures, most notably by ...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump did not attend—and was not invited to—former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Nov. 20, 2025, funeral at the Washington National Cathedral, and Trump public...
Available reporting shows President Trump attacked Dick Cheney on Truth Social in the past — calling him an “irrelevant RINO” after Cheney criticized Trump — and Trump did not post a public condolence...
After 2016, public clashes between Donald Trump and Dick Cheney were frequent and largely personal as well as policy-driven: Cheney called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward,” appeared in ...
Republican Senate reactions to former President Donald Trump’s November 4, 2025 statements are , and the available pieces instead document related fractures between the White House and Senate Republic...
The available reporting asserts that the East Wing of the White House has been used by multiple administrations for a mix of , with notable mentions including Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton a...
of the 25th Amendment — the president’s power to declare a temporary inability and hand authority to the vice president — has been used in modern practice for planned by three presidents: in 1985, (tw...
Multiple well‑known public figures from the 1960s–70s era obtained more than one Selective Service deferment, most commonly student and medical postponements, but the public record and contemporary re...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam-era: four student (college) deferments and a final medical deferment for heel spurs; he was later entered in the 1968 lottery and drew a ...
The White House flag is commonly lowered to half‑staff to mark national mourning for major officeholders, memorial days, or as the President directs; federal law and long‑standing custom guide duratio...
The White House flies the U.S. flag on its rooftop at all times and has flown the POW/MIA flag there since 2019; new lawn flagpoles were reportedly added in 2025 (Wikipedia) . Federal practice and pro...
received five student draft deferments during the and, after graduating law school, was given a of 1‑Y (limited deferment/disqualification) because of a history of asthma; the widely circulated claim ...