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Anna Rascouët-Paz

Anna Rascouët-Paz is based in Brooklyn, NYC, and has worked at Bloomberg News, Annual Reviews, and WNYC (Radiolab), making complex subjects accessible to diverse audiences. She has expanded the digital presence of both Annual Reviews and Radiolab, creating deeply researched, engaging content. She has a strong background in economics, business and science, and speaks English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently.Got tips? Reach out to her on Signal at rascouetsnopes.41 or via email at anna@snopes.com.

A photograph of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool at dusk, facing the obelisk of the Washington Monument, shows the pool drained and multiple cars driving on it.

Did Trump's motorcade drive through newly painted reflecting pool?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 23, 2026

A White House official posted a video of the motorcade crossing the landmark on May 7, 2026.

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Jeff Bezos, a bald white man, holds his right index finger up in the air as he speaks. The background is bright red.

Did Jeff Bezos say human water consumption is limiting AI's potential?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 22, 2026

The Amazon founder supposedly made the comment during a panel interview at VivaTech, a tech conf ...

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The photo of a shallow pool shows green water and darker tear at the bottom.

Is reflecting pool's blue paint peeling off?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 19, 2026

The paint began peeling off the bottom of the reflecting pool just days after renovations. Hydro ...

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A red brick building, a synagogue, stands in the winter sun.

How KKK leader's unlikely friendship with family he harassed led him to Judaism

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 19, 2026

Larry Trapp, who was the grand dragon of the Nebraska KKK, died months after his conversion in 1992.

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On the left, a white man in a black suit stands before a red brick background. On the right, Trump wears a dark blue suit, a red tie and leans away from a microphone behind a podium.

Investigating claim Trump wants to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 18, 2026 (Updated: June 19, 2026)

A 2026 New Yorker article revived a claim from 2020.

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The New York Knicks, a basketball team, hold up a large golden trophy as they stand on a stage.

Did Knicks decline White House invitation after winning NBA championship?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 17, 2026

The Knicks couldn't decline a White House invitation that hadn't been extended when the rumor be ...

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A couple dressed in black stand smiling against a white background. The woman is blond and has her hand on the man's shoulder, who is wearing a baseball cap backwards. They both have tattoos, she on her shoulder and hand, he on his face.

How we confirmed Jelly Roll filed for divorce from Bunnie Xo

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 16, 2026

TMZ first reported the split, citing divorce records from Tennessee.

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A U.S. Air Force pilot, who is Black, poses before a war plane from the 1950s. On the side of metal body of the plane, a large red mouth with teeth is painted.

Pentagon reportedly removed portrait of 1st Black 4-star US general: What to know

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 12, 2026

The claim came from a story in The Atlantic, which attributed the removal to the Trump administr ...

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Did Gwyneth Paltrow star in commercial for luxury real estate in Israel?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 11, 2026

The development is in Herzliya, minutes north of Tel Aviv.

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A photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump standing in the aisle of a plane, surrounded with blurry microphones and cameras.

Did Trump say 'Meet the Press' interviewer Kristen Welker kept staring at his ear?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 11, 2026

A bullet struck Trump's ear during an assassination attempt against him in July 2024.

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A woman wearing a striped shirt holds a clipboard and a pen with a paper that reads "Be a Voter: Register to Vote."

Inspecting rumor California accepts gym cards as ID for voter registration

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 10, 2026

The state has a policy of facilitating voter registration, taking on the work of verifying all i ...

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Trump, a white man, stands and stares ahead of him wearing a dark blue suit, a white shirt and a red tie. The face of a young woman, his granddaughter Kai Trump, appears behind him. To his left is Knicks owner James Dolan, a white man with white hair and a salmon jacket.

Was Trump booed during national anthem at Knicks' NBA Finals game?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 9, 2026

Matching social media videos to the livestream showed the crowd booed as the president appeared ...

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The image shows a large building that displays a mix of Romanesque, Victorian Gothic and French Renaissance style, with the statue of a man on a horse in the foreground. The building is surrounded with trees.

New York bill would replace 'mother' and 'father' with gender-neutral terms in family law

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 5, 2026

The bill would replace the gendered terminology with "gestating parent" and "non-gestating paren ...

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A clear vial with a blue cap carries a label that reads "TEST: MONKEYPOX VIRUS."

DOJ charged 2 NIH scientists with smuggling deactivated monkeypox virus into US

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 5, 2026

The two researchers, who are Dutch and Cameroonian citizens, reportedly pleaded not guilty to th ...

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A modern building is lit at night. The sign on the building says "L'Oréal."

L'Oréal-owned CeraVe faces 6 class action lawsuits over claims products contain cancer-causing chemical

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 4, 2026

All six class action lawsuits allege that multiple CeraVe products had tested positive for benze ...

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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, a white man, fidgets with his black-frame glasses as he speaks. He is wearing a dark blue suit and tie.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun declares June 'Nuclear Family Month'

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

June 3, 2026 (Updated: June 4, 2026)

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith shared the declaration on an image that also read "TAKE BACK the Rainbow!"

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A brown tick with a white spot on its torso sits on a blade of grass.

Paper argued it's 'morally obligatory' to engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome … as a philosophical exercise

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

May 30, 2026

The philosophy paper appeared in Bioethics, a journal that explores urgent ethical questions in ...

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Bill Gates, a white man with dark-framed glasses, smiles as he sits before a microphone.

Gates Foundation backed research on different ticks than ones that cause meat allergy

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

May 29, 2026

The Asian blue tick doesn't spread alpha-gal syndrome; the lone star tick does.

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A brown tick with a white spot on its torso sits on a blade of grass.

8 rumors involving disease-spreading ticks we've investigated

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

May 27, 2026

As climate change allows the blood-sucking arachnids to proliferate, so do tick-borne diseases a ...

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A group of people are sitting. A Black couple in the foreground, Michelle and Barack Obama, are talking animatedly. Behind them sits a young Black woman, their daughter Sasha Obama.

Posts falsely claim Sasha Obama said Barack is gay and Michelle is trans

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

May 24, 2026

One user who shared the story has a history of false posts targeting Barack Obama.

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