Rae Deng
Rae Deng joined Snopes in late 2024 after covering state legislatures across the country, most recently at the Washington State Standard, where they reported on topics like K-12 education, public health, immigration and criminal justice. They have also covered statehouse policy and politics in Minnesota and Ohio. Their freelance reporting, primarily focused on race, equity, disability and identity, has appeared in HuffPost, STAT News and other publications. Rae lives in Tacoma, Washington, with their partner and a very stinky cat. In their free time, they enjoy throwing pots at a local ceramics studio, reading cozy fantasy books and playing open-world video games. Rae previously published under the byline "Grace Deng."
Written by: Rae Deng
Jan. 30, 2025
Vance wrote about his grandparents’ tumultuous relationship in his book, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Written by: Rae Deng
Jan. 28, 2025
President Donald Trump claimed on his 2025 Inauguration Day that his predecessor pardoned "33 mu ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Jan. 28, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 29, 2025)
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's funding freeze, which sowed widespread confusion online.
Written by: Rae Deng
Jan. 28, 2025
The images implied that either U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, or his father, Rafae ...
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Jan. 26, 2025
It's true that training and using AI models like ChatGPT consume large amounts of electricity, r ...
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Jan. 24, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health ...
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Jan. 23, 2025
Federal officials say ICE arrested 308 people the day after Trump's 2025 inauguration - but that ...
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Jan. 22, 2025
There are still other Biden-era measures in place to reduce prescription drug prices, however.
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Jan. 15, 2025
Claims about AI's environmental cost circulated following the Los Angeles wildfires in early 2025.
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Jan. 4, 2025
The legislation bans the military's health insurance provider, TRICARE, from covering gender-aff ...
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Jan. 1, 2025
Inaugurations are expensive — Trump's in 2017 cost an estimated $175 million to $200 million.
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 31, 2024
A spokesperson for Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said his comments about graduation requirements had ...
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Dec. 31, 2024
The anti-immigrant letter purportedly called on white residents to surveil and report "brown fol ...
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Dec. 27, 2024
Ahem, inquiring minds want to know ...
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Dec. 27, 2024
The inventor of the board game that would become Monopoly, Elizabeth Magie, called her creation ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 24, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 26, 2024)
A Manitoba woman who didn't take her tuberculosis medication consistently was at the center of a ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 23, 2024
According to ABC News, about two dozen women waited in the cold for public seats to support Luig ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 23, 2024
A South Carolina lawmaker has brought back an unpopular bill that would treat abortion as homici ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 23, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claimed Musk can't be president amid speculation about the tec ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 20, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 23, 2024)
However, Congress has passed legislation to pay service members during specific government shutd ...
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