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Kristi Noem told reporters that Americans should be prepared to prove their citizenship during Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, a comment that has prompted immediate legal and political...
As of 2025, the two U.S. Senators representing Illinois are and ; multiple state and national rosters list both as incumbent senators . Durbin has publicly announced he will not seek re-election in 20...
An open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois after Sen. Dick Durbin’s April 2025 retirement has produced a crowded, well‑funded primary field; leading Democratic contenders include Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton a...
Yes — a substantial number of House Republicans voted to compel the Justice Department to release Jeffrey Epstein files: the House passed the bill 427–1 with nearly the entire Republican conference vo...
Multiple provided analyses show disagreement and partial information about who “voted to block” the release of Jeffrey Epstein files on November 12, 2025. The clearest specific claim in the dataset is...
The available reporting shows that the Department of Homeland Security removed prior upper age caps for new ICE agent recruits in early August 2025, allowing applicants as young as with ; previously p...
As of the latest compiled reporting, at least seven U.S. senators have publicly announced they will not seek re-election in 2026: Democrats Tina Smith (MN), Gary Peters (MI), Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and D...
The evidence assembled from the provided analyses shows ; instead, reporting and congressional debate have focused on transparency and the potential contents of unredacted records. Multiple analyses n...
Eight incumbent U.S. senators announced they will not seek re-election in 2026, splitting evenly between the parties with ; these departures create multiple open seats that will shape the 2026 competi...
A clear, consistent fact emerges across the materials: the U.S. Senate seats — the senators whose six-year terms began with the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021 — expire on , and those seats are the ...
The Born in the USA Act was introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen and a slate of Senate Democrats to block implementation of President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order targeting birthright citizen...
The claim asks which U.S. senators are up for re-election in 2026 whose terms end January 3, 2027 — in other words, which members of are on the 2026 ballot. Multiple analyses referenced here confirm t...
The term “Born in America” has been used in two separate contexts in 2025 reporting: a Democratic-sponsored Born in the USA Act (Senate S.646 / House H.R.3368 and related House cosponsor materials) th...
Ending the Senate filibuster in 2025 would remove the 60-vote threshold for most legislation and give the majority party the power to enact its agenda by simple majority, a change that could dramatica...
Most available evidence shows Americans place more blame on Republicans — particularly President Trump and GOP lawmakers — for the 2025 federal government shutdown, though a substantial share also bla...
The claim traces to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s public statements that more than 10,000 “illegal migrants” have been arrested in the Minneapolis area and that thousands amo...
Congressional actors have sharpened scrutiny of ICE recruitment and vetting since a string of high-profile incidents, pressing DHS for documents, publicizing alleged screening failures, and using reso...
Public reporting links Elon Musk primarily to funding and leadership of Neuralink — a private neurotech company Musk co‑founded that has raised at least $158 million overall, about $100 million of whi...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted multiple reviews of their Epstein holdings and the custodial circumstances of Jeffrey Epstein’s August 2019 deat...
There is that Donald Trump was interviewed by the FBI in connection with Jeffrey Epstein in 2016 or earlier. Multiple recent reporting efforts that examined Epstein-related emails, internal FBI handli...