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Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975 and as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Born in Germany, Kissinger emigrated to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution.
SourceWillard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025 and as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 2012 presidential election. The youngest child of former Michigan governor and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George W. Romney, Romney served as a missionary in France for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
SourceRafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the third Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008. He has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee since 2025.
SourceTransgender rights in the United States vary considerably by jurisdiction. In recent decades, there was an expansion of federal, state, and local laws and rulings to protect transgender Americans. Most states allow change of sex on birth certificates and driver's licenses, although some require proof of gender-affirming surgery or prohibit updating these fields altogether.
SourceHuman trafficking is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as the recruiting, transportation, transfer and harboring of individuals, by means of threatening or use of force or also other forms of coercion, of abduction, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability. Those trafficked include everyone from young children, teenagers, men, and women; victims can be domestic citizens or foreign nationals. Two primary forms of human trafficking recognized by the United States is forced labor and sex trafficking, as stated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
SourceThis is a list of characters in the American science fiction crime drama television series Person of Interest.
SourceThe following is a list of events of the year 2025 in the United States. Following his election victory in November 2024, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and began his second, nonconsecutive term on January 20. The beginning of his term saw him extensively use executive orders and give increased authority to Elon Musk through the Department of Government Efficiency, leading to mass layoffs of the federal workforce and attempts to eliminate agencies such as USAID. These policies have drawn dozens of lawsuits that have challenged their legality.
SourceDuring Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, his administration has pursued a deportation policy generally described as "hardline", "maximalist", and as a "mass deportation" campaign, involving the detention, confinement, and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their family members. The Trump administration has claimed that around 140,000 people had been deported as of April 2025, though some estimates put the number at roughly half that. On August 28, 2025, CNN reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alone had deported nearly 200,000 people in seven months since Trump returned to office.
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