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Credibility summary
Of the 590 claims in Politics with evidence either way, 85% held up.
Showing 841-860 of 6464 claims
Republicans are saddled with a candidate who cannot make a clear argument or finish a sentence
Trump and Witkoff are prolonging the war
Trump has no strategy
Ceasefire in Gaza began four months ago
Israeli military killed more than 500 Gazans in that time
Trump administration expanded travel ban and announced intention to reexamine cases of resettled Afghans
Removal of temporary protected status has put Afghans in precarious legal standing
Numbers include U.S. allies who received letters of protection from the U.S. government
No One Left Behind will support evacuation and resettlement to third countries
The main impediment to SIV processing is a halt on all Afghan immigrant visa processing after an Afghan national shot two West Virginia National Guardsmen and killed one on November 26
A bipartisan Congressional letter calling for the authorization of 20000 additional Afghan SIVs received 106 signatures in 2025
The International Refugee Assistance Project forced the U.S. government to adhere to the nine-month SIV adjudication timeline via a class-action lawsuit
IRAP filed a motion to enforce this class action lawsuit in December
A judge ruled with IRAP that the State Department must recommence issuing COM approvals to qualified applicants in their class action suit last week
The April 2025 quarterly report shows 10216 remaining SIVs for 115258 Afghans with pending application for Chief of Mission approval
The number of remaining visas available is a serious concern
In 2015 Department of Justice subpoenaed Reason for identities of six commenters who posted angry comments under an article about Ross Ulbricht
4chan gave FBI the IP addresses of the two posters in response to the subpoena
File includes results of subpoena to AT&T for phone records on a man from Swain New York and a subpoena to CitiBank for bank records on Roberto Grijalva
Department of Justice released subpoenas for personal information on two anonymous commenters about Jeffrey Epstein's death
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