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ICE’s rapid hiring expansion allowed some recruits to advance before basic vetting was finished. Now some are being fired. But viral claims about 200 background-check
Major Medicaid provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill really do take effect around January 2027, after the 2026 midterms, while several highly visible tax
Robert Kraft’s Blue Square Alliance runs a large social-media monitoring operation from Gillette Stadium, identifies high-impact posts and authors for universities and government leaders, and
JD Vance reportedly tried to help Hillary Clinton stop Donald Trump in 2016. By 2022, Peter Thiel had put $15 million into a super PAC
James Brass and two petition circulators are accused of using real California voters’ identities to manufacture initiative signatures on Skid Row. Prosecutors now say Brass’s
Some of the strangest claims about 9/11 are false. Others are based on facts more troubling than many conventional explanations acknowledge. Twenty-five years later, we
ICE asked the IRS to process roughly 1.28 million requests for taxpayer address information. Most produced no IRS match, while the procedure that disclosed 47,289
President Trump says he has made “hundreds of billions” for the United States through stocks and other holdings. Federal records confirm enormous paper gains on
Tucker Carlson’s claim that the CIA prepared a criminal referral over his contacts with Iran remains unverified, and no public charge or arrest has surfaced.
Yes, intelligence agencies have used blackmail. But the documentary record is more nuanced than either “the CIA would never do that” or “blackmail is standard
