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A brown sign says SOCIAL SECURITY.

Many Social Security recipients will have to confirm identity in person to receive benefits

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

March 26, 2025

Using phone services to verify identity will no longer be available beginning April 14, 2025.

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DOD removed, then restored, page about Bea Arthur's WWII military service

Written by: Jordan Liles

March 26, 2025

Arthur's biography on the U.S. DOD website, published in 2021, described her enlistment in the M ...

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Photo authentically shows San Francisco's Lombard Street in 1975

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 26, 2025

The famed roadway has been nicknamed the most crooked street in the world.

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Bean soup has been on daily menu of US Senate dining room since 1903

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 24, 2025

One account attributes a supposed bean soup mandate to a Minnesota senator who expressed his fon ...

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Space photo shows NYC shortly after 9/11

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 23, 2025

NASA published the photo along with a journal written by the only American who was not on Earth ...

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Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 23, 2025

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women ...

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DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

March 21, 2025

In the process of purging its websites of DEI references, the Pentagon removed articles about th ...

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A white woman wearing a black top looks over her left shoulder towards the camera.

ICE detained Canadian 'American Pie' actor Jasmine Mooney for 12 days

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

March 21, 2025

Mooney appeared in the 2009 teen comedy "American Pie Presents: The Book of Love."

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DOD removed, then restored, article about Jackie Robinson in anti-DEI 'content refresh'

Written by: Caroline Wazer

March 20, 2025

The article was about the pioneering Black athlete's time in the U.S. Army.

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DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes — then restored one, with changes

Written by: Caroline Wazer

March 19, 2025

In 1945, Hayes was one of six men famously photographed raising an American flag on Iwo Jima.

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Trump administration removed Navajo Code Talker history from military websites per anti-DEI orders

Written by: Taija PerryCook

March 19, 2025

The DOD has reportedly said it will restore the scrubbed information.

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Photos show all-white orca off Japanese coast

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 19, 2025

It’s not clear whether the orca is a true albino or its white coloring was caused by another med ...

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Yes, French politician suggested US should return Statue of Liberty

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 18, 2025

The White House responded by saying that “it's only because of the United States of America that ...

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Yes, photographers have genuinely captured images of starlings flying in the shape of a bird

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 18, 2025

It’s not fully understood why the birds swarm in such large groups at dusk.

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A brown sign says SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

Social Security falsely declared 82-year-old man dead, stopped benefits

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

March 17, 2025

Ned Johnson and his wife Pam confirmed the details of the story in a telephone interview and pro ...

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A white man wearing a blue suit looks towards the camera.

Yes, Musk repost misleadingly claimed 'Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions of people'

Written by: Jordan Liles

March 17, 2025

Musk reposted the thought on X in March 2025 and later removed it.

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Why we call capitalized letters 'uppercase' and non-capitalized letters 'lowercase'

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 16, 2025

The terms date back to the 18th-century printing trade.

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Yes, this photo shows NYC from space shortly after 9/11

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 16, 2025

"We were looking at NY around the time of, or shortly after, the collapse of the second tower," ...

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A rock shows what looks to be the face of an elephant surrounded by a large body of water.

This Icelandic rock formation genuinely resembles an elephant's head

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

March 16, 2025

The natural geological feature was formed by volcanic activity and erosion.

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Yes, Columbia University expelled student for leading anti-Nazi demonstration in 1936

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

March 16, 2025

The university's crackdown on student activists is not new.

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