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The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
Contemporary reviews of the evidence show credible disagreement: objective linguistic and diary analyses detect , while doctors, aides, and contemporaneous medical exams found at the time; a formal Al...
Declassified intelligence and contemporaneous reporting show U.S. officials had prior knowledge of plots against Hugo Chávez and met with Venezuelan opposition and military figures in the months befor...
The Somali presence in Minnesota largely stems from refugee resettlement beginning in the early 1990s and subsequent secondary migration and family reunification; roughly 150,000 Somalis have been res...
Available contemporary records in the provided reporting do not show a verifiable record of a single individual named “Harry Myers” serving in specific military units or deployments during the 1990s; ...
The phrase “new world order” entered modern political discourse at least as early as Woodrow Wilson’s post–World War I internationalism, and was re-popularized by U.S. President George H. W. Bush afte...
The earliest diplomatic uses of language closely matching "new world order" trace to the World War I and immediate postwar period, when President Woodrow Wilson used phrases such as "new order of the ...
Deportation totals vary by how “deportation” is counted: removals (formal orders) vs. returns/expulsions at the border. DHS and reporting cited here show Obama oversaw roughly 3 million formal removal...
George H. W. Bush explicitly used the phrase in a high‑profile address to a joint session of Congress on September 11, 1990, and again in speeches during the Gulf War era to describe a post‑Cold War v...
Two presidents are routinely identified in the historical record as having put the United States under forms of martial rule: Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War (beginning in 1861) and Franklin D. R...
Ronald Reagan used the line “Let’s make America great again” as a campaign pledge in his 1980 presidential run and it appeared on buttons and posters that year . Multiple retrospective accounts—academ...
Joe Biden’s approval ratings during and at the end of his presidency trended lower than most recent post‑World War II presidents, with multiple measures showing his averages among the lowest on record...
Available reporting identifies at least a half‑dozen U.S. presidents with documented Mayflower ancestry — most commonly cited are John Adams (and his son John Quincy Adams), Zachary Taylor, Franklin D...
Presidents have repeatedly sent U.S. forces, including Marines, into combat or combat-like operations without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; Justice Department and congressional-histor...
The Obama administration increased using expedited removal procedures in ways that differed from earlier presidencies by concentrating removals on recent border crossers and convicted criminals while ...
The President cannot freely deploy active-duty federal military forces as domestic law enforcement; the generally bars such use, but the provides statutory exceptions allowing deployment without new C...
Donald J. Trump’s use of the pardon power is numerically large in recent political headlines — he has issued well over 1,500 pardons and clemency actions across both presidencies, including a single-d...
Reporting and newly released documents show that several prominent Republicans had documented connections to Jeffrey Epstein, but the nature and depth of those ties vary widely—from minor campaign con...