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Year-by-year CPI inflation numbers by calendar year are reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and summarized in many outlets; available reporting shows inflation peaked near 9.1% in mid‑2022 duri...
Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
ICE is being followed, confronted and filmed in unprecedented numbers now because the agency’s operations under the current administration are more public, more numerous, and explicitly politicized — ...
The available analyses indicate conflicting tallies: recent Trump-administration statements claim over people left the U.S. (including 1.6 million “self-deported”) and more than formal removals since ...
Public reporting shows no verified, public SAT scores for Donald Trump; multiple outlets note that his grades and test results were never released and that his former lawyer Michael Cohen testified th...
Across multiple government and research tallies, the Trump administration oversaw roughly 1.4–1.6 million “deportation” events (a sweep of removals, returns and expulsions) over its first four years i...
The modern “lizard people” or “reptilian” accusation has been applied to a wide range of public figures—from British royalty and U.S. presidents to celebrities and tech CEOs—and was popularized by Dav...
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...
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...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...
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...
The term "Podesta Plan" circulates in online conspiracy communities as a supposed multi-stage Democratic strategy to delegitimize or remove Donald Trump; most of the items returned by the supplied sea...
Trump’s immigration agenda differs from Obama’s primarily in its emphasis on enforcement, restriction of legal immigration pathways, and high-profile rule changes such as travel bans and border infras...
Public frustration over why the Department of Justice did not unseal a comprehensive trove of “Epstein files” during Joe Biden’s presidency reflects legal constraints, competing political narratives, ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included provisions that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and others scored as reducing Medicare spending by about $716 billion over its initial 10‑year window (late...
Media commentators and partisan outlets point to a tonal shift in CNN’s coverage of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between 2016 and the Trump years, with resurfaced 2016 ride‑along seg...
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...
Donald Trump’s claim that “his first term we had the best economy ever” is not supported by the economic measures most analysts use; , and his policies produced mixed outcomes on deficits, growth and ...
ABC removed Roseanne Barr from the 2018 revival after she posted a tweet that likened Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, to an ape; the network called the remark “abhorrent, repugnant and incons...
Available public sources do not provide an annual, year‑by‑year count of Somali immigrants and refugees moving to Minnesota since 2005; federal and state reports give multi‑year aggregates and populat...