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Written by: Madison Dapcevich
March 18, 2021
To cheers or not to cheers, that is the question.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
March 23, 2021
The same person also shared photos that appeared to show various other contaminants in the same ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 17, 2021
A man is accused of shooting and killing eight people, most of whom of Asian descent, at massage ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 8, 2021
Readers asked about Seresto flea collars following an investigation by USA Today and the Midwest ...
Written by: Jessica Lee
Feb. 25, 2021
For decades, activists have maintained prosecutors convicted the wrong men in the murder.
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Feb. 11, 2021
If cartoons have taught us anything, skeletons are traditionally used to make xylophones, not gu ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 25, 2021
Anti-vaccine propagandist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., capitalized on the death of the 86-year old Am ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 13, 2021
The actor’s purported sexual kinks set the internet aflame.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 7, 2021
A video of a woman who participated in rioting at the U.S. Capitol went viral after some noticed ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 3, 2020
A photograph purportedly showing a "mysterious ghost hand" featured a group of young girls in 19 ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Oct. 1, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic, is also affiliated with People of Praise, a "charismatic Christia ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Sept. 4, 2020
Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, infamously displayed two guns during a racial injustice p ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 28, 2020
The canine heartworm-preventative joined a long list of drugs touted as possible cures for COVID ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 4, 2020
Conflicting accounts from city officials made this widely shared story even more troubling.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 20, 2020
Such an observation would have an impact on how medical professionals identify those most at ris ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 3, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped the virus would go away in April 2020 because the "hea ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 8, 2019
Right-leaning websites seized upon unconfirmed details supposedly taken from the script of "The ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2017
A story about gun crimes that uses statistics from the FBI's annual national crime report is flawed.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 2, 2012
Let's look at the facts.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 6, 2019
Like their name implies, brown recluse spiders seek dark, quiet places to hide.
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