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- Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing: Directed Energy Incidents on U.S. Soil (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Intelligence Committee hearing record, 2022: Senator Shaheen raised reports of suspected directed-energy incidents on U.S. soil, including one near the White House Ellipse in late…
- Senate Intelligence Committee: Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (2004)
Government Record · 2004
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Intelligence Committee, July 2004: most key judgments in the 2002 intelligence estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were overstated or not supported by the…
- Senate Judiciary Committee: Oversight of the FBI (September 16, 2025)
Government Record · 2025
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
FBI Director Kash Patel's September 2025 Senate testimony: he said the files held no credible information that Epstein trafficked victims to other people.
- Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Repatriating Offshore Funds (2011)
Government Record · 2011
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Majority Staff
Senate investigators, 2011: the 15 companies that brought home the most money under the 2004 tax holiday, over $150 billion, then cut 20,931 U.S. jobs, and…
- Senate PSI Minority Staff Memorandum: Elon Musk Conflicts (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Minority Staff
Senate investigators' 2025 memo on Elon Musk's conflicts, including a reported USDA Inspector General investigation into Neuralink's treatment of research animals.
- Senator Grassley: Letter to Secretary Blinken on GDI Funding (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Senator Charles E. Grassley
Sen. Chuck Grassley, April 2023: asked the State Department for records on funding to the Global Disinformation Index through NED and the GEC. Its suppression claims…
- Senator Wiener’s Historic Bill to Provide Refuge for Trans Kids and Their Families Signed into Law (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Office of California Senator Scott Wiener
The sponsor’s official statement describes SB 107’s limits on enforcing out-of-state removal laws, subpoenas, arrests, and extradition connected to lawful California gender-affirming care. The refuge law…
- Settlement Agreement with Members of the Sackler Family
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Department of Justice and named Sackler family members
The civil settlement required $225 million and expressly preserved criminal liability. It was not an admission of liability.
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections: A Retrospective Observational Study (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Gazit S, Shlezinger R, Perez G, et al.
Israeli Maccabi retrospective cohort during the Delta period: previously infected, unvaccinated people had substantially lower reinfection risk than twice-vaccinated, never-infected people; symptomatic disease and hospitalization were…
- Sex reassignment at birth. Long-term review and clinical implications (1997)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 1997
Milton Diamond and H. Keith Sigmundson
The 1997 article reports that the individual later rejected the assigned sex of rearing and lived as a male from puberty onward. It is a long-term…
- SGT Report: Rumble Channel (2026)
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SGT Report / Rumble
SGT Report on Rumble: the show's own channel page, active on Rumble after leaving YouTube. The page does not show a verified join date.
- Shared Spaces: San Francisco Small Business Commission Webinar (Reopening Timeline)
Government Record · 2021
City and County of San Francisco
The City timeline places outdoor personal-services authorization on September 7, 2020, after Pelosi’s August 31 visit. It also identifies August 31 as the start of California’s…
- Shortages of Machinists: An Evaluation of the Information
Government Record · 1982
Neal H. Rosenthal
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1982: there were 567,000 machinists in 1980. The survey methods differ from today's, so the numbers do not line up exactly.
- SIFMA: Robert Khuzami Speaker Biography
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SIFMA (Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association)
SIFMA, the securities industry's trade group: lists Khuzami's career as SEC enforcement director (2009 to 2013), Kirkland & Ellis partner (2013 to 2018), Deputy U.S. Attorney…
- SIGTARP Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020
Government Record · 2020
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
SIGTARP's semiannual report restates its 2015 finding that lenders denied 70 to 80 percent of HAMP applicants, about four million people, and documents housing-program spending. It…
- Silberman-Robb Commission: Report on Iraq WMD Intelligence (2005)
Government Record · 2005
Silberman-Robb Commission
Presidential WMD Commission, March 2005: U.S. intelligence was "dead wrong" on almost all its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons, a major failure. On the same page,…
- Sixteen Thirty Fund IRS Form 990, Tax Year 2020
Corporate Filing · 2021
Sixteen Thirty Fund (filed with the Internal Revenue Service)
IRS Form 990 for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) managed by Arabella Advisors, showing total revenue of $389,684,866 for 2020.
- Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358
Court Filing · 2010
Supreme Court of the United States
Skilling preserved §1346 by confining it to bribery and kickbacks. It did not legalize those crimes.
- SMCCF Investment Management Agreement (BlackRock)
Government Record · 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory
The 2020 agreement naming BlackRock investment manager for the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility. BlackRock may not charge fees on the facility's ETF holdings, including its…
- SMCCF Transaction-specific Disclosures, January 11, 2021
Government Record · 2021
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve's year-end disclosure for the corporate bond facility. ETF holdings were worth about $8.78 billion, and eight iShares funds (HYG, IGIB, IGSB, LQD, SHYG,…
- SMCCF Transaction-specific Disclosures, May 29, 2020
Government Record · 2020
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve's first trade-by-trade disclosure for the corporate bond facility: 158 ETF trades from May 12 to 18, 2020, totaling about $1.58 billion. BlackRock-sponsored ETFs…
- Smith-Hughes Act (1917)
Government Record · 1917
64th U.S. Congress
The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, the first federal funding for vocational education in farming, trades and industry.
- Smithsonian: BEAR Neutral Particle Beam Accelerator
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: its BEAR particle-beam accelerator. "No deployed weapon has ever employed this technology."
- Snyder v. United States, 603 U.S. 1 (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court held that 18 U.S.C. §666 criminalizes bribes but not gratuities for past acts. It reversed the Seventh Circuit’s 2023 affirmance of the bribery conviction…