| After Hurricane Helene hit multiple states in September, president Joe Biden announced the federal government would shoulder 100 per cent of recovery costs in the first 180 days. Earlier this month North Carolina governments also received $US1.65 billion ($2.63 billion) in federal block grant money to address the historic damage. |
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| As of Monday local time, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said all available resources have been deployed to defend high-risk areas. Authorities have also been blanketing the city and surrounding hillsides in fire retardant to stop the spread of flames. |
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| The would-be assassin who fired at Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in July last year was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service snipers, was a registered Republican and nursing aide whose motives have remained a mystery. |
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| This is correct. Donald Trump won all seven swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The popular vote is the total number of votes cast by voters, rather than the electoral college votes. It is not used to decide the president. In 2024, Mr Trump won the popular vote by a margin of 2,284,316. |
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| Tariffs imposed by the US government are not paid by foreign countries. They are paid by US importers and often result in higher prices. |
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| The DOGE is a proposed panel to be headed by billionaire Elon Musk. A lawsuit claiming it violates federal transparency laws was filed just minutes after the inauguration, according to the Washington Post. |
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| Donald Trump has threatened to investigate, prosecute or imprison political rivals more than 100 times since 2022, according to an NPR investigation. |
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| An executive order now seeks to remove "non-binary" or "other" options from government IDs, remove protections for trans people in institutions and potentially cutting off gender-affirming medical care for about 276,000 trans adults. |
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| About 8,000 troops were removed from service between August 2021 and January 2023 for refusing the vaccine. |
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| The US accounted for 37 per cent of the $US1.6 trillion ($2.55 trillion) total world military spending in 2023, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. |
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| Both the Biden and incoming Trump administrations were involved in the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, and the agreement mirrored ceasefire framework proposed by Mr Biden months ago. |
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| The US and Panama had joint control of the canal from 1977, and Panama took complete control from 1999. |
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| According to historical records, an estimated 5,600 US workers died during construction of the Panama Canal, compared with 22,000 from France. |
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| Panama has sovereignty over the Panama Canal, and it is managed by the Panama Canal Authority. Panama's president, Jose Raul Mulino, says the canal is not under "any direct or indirect control" by China, Europe or anywhere else. |
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| Combating an "epidemic" of chronic disease is part of Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr's "Make America Healthy Again" campaign. Mr Kennedy, who is Mr Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, believes Americans have been poisoned by "big pharma and big food". |
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| Colonisation of Mars is an explicit goal of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Mr Musk was seated front row at the inauguration, along with Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, whose own space company wants to sent satellites to Mars. |
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| New Zealand physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford is credited with splitting the atom in 1917, at the Victoria University of Manchester in England. |
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