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Photo showing Putin holding nose in car with Trump doesn't pass sniff test

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Aug. 18, 2025

The world leaders rode together in Trump's presidential state car during their Alaska summit in ...

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No evidence Robert Mueller is in memory care facility

Written by: Jack Izzo

Aug. 18, 2025 (Updated: Sept. 2, 2025)

The unsubstantiated post came from a journalist who has worked to discredit the claim that Russi ...

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Do woodpeckers' tongues protect their brains? Here's what studies show

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Aug. 18, 2025

Scientists have long wondered how woodpeckers protect their brains from injury while pecking.

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Did 11-year-old Montana girl shoot 2 'illegals,' as posts claim?

Written by: Jordan Liles

Aug. 18, 2025

For many years, Facebook users have shared a false story about an 11-year-old Montana girl defen ...

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Video shows cross catching fire during Mass at Dallas church?

Written by: Jordan Liles

Aug. 17, 2025

According to the story, the clip depicted a raging inferno at St. Michael's Church on June 15, 2025.

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Examining rumor Trump wants to lower age of consent and marriage to 14

Written by: Jordan Liles

Aug. 17, 2025

Some users claimed Trump desired to protect himself from potential future charges for alleged cr ...

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Here's why WhatsApp's AI feature isn't the privacy risk people fear

Written by: Taija PerryCook

Aug. 17, 2025

Users can activate the Meta AI program in a chat, but end-to-end encryption remains the default ...

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Screenshot of Trader Joe's gift basket photo with receipt in foreground. Even though top of receipt says "Trader Joe's", bottom of receipt says "Thank you for shopping at Aldi"

Don't believe posts claiming Trader Joe's is offering $12 gift baskets for filling out online form

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 17, 2025

Trader Joe's hasn't offered gift baskets to anyone for filling out an online form.

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Two photos stacked one above the other of a shirtless man in the water hugging around and pushing a large black bear

Photos claiming to show Russian man saving drowning bear in Lake Tahoe tell a different story

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 16, 2025

Social media posts credited an Ivan Stepanov with rescuing a drowning bear in Lake Tahoe. In rea ...

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Breaking down claim Hegseth believes women shouldn't have the right to vote

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Aug. 16, 2025

The defense secretary openly endorsed a church whose elders endorsed repealing the 19th amendment.

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20 rumors about Vladimir Putin Snopes has investigated

Written by: Rae Deng

Aug. 16, 2025

Yes, Putin once took a dog to meet Angela Merkel, who is famously afraid of dogs. No, he did not ...

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Unpacking claim Canada PM Carney tied to sale of donated plasma to foreign company

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Aug. 16, 2025

Canadian Conservative lawmakers called for an inquiry into the alleged sale, which they say the ...

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AT&T customers could get up to $7,500 from data breach settlement. Here's how to claim it

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 15, 2025

People who can show documentation they lost money because of two separate AT&T data breaches may ...

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Exploring claim Trump admin wants to replace PBS with PragerU

Written by: Jack Izzo

Aug. 15, 2025

The claim spread following Trump's decision to end all federal support for the Corporation for P ...

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Did 'staff mutiny' force Cotswolds pub to turn away JD Vance? What we know

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Aug. 15, 2025

Staff at The Bull, a pub in Oxfordshire, England, reportedly refused to come to work if the vice ...

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Did Tom Cruise refuse Kennedy Center award from Trump?

Written by: Laerke Christensen Nur Ibrahim

Aug. 15, 2025

Anonymous sources and conjecture formed the basis of this rumor.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, a balding white man, shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, a white man with short white-blonde hair.

Unpacking rumor Trump plans to offer Alaska's natural resources to Putin

Written by: Rae Deng

Aug. 15, 2025

According to UK newspaper The Telegraph, offering Alaskan natural resources to Russia could be p ...

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A long-haired brunette woman wearing a blue baseball cap with a police badge "ICE" logo on it and a bulletproof vest that says "POLICE ICE"

ICE plans to purchase eye-scanning tech to ID unauthorized immigrants

Written by: Rae Deng

Aug. 15, 2025

ICE released plans in August 2025 to buy a license for iris-scanning, biometric technology that ...

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1700s artwork of Cinderella sitting by the kitchen fire

Breaking down claim early Cinderella versions called her 'Cinder-sl**'

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 15, 2025

A single translation well after the Victorian-era ended included the insult, but it wasn't exact ...

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Seriously, Ron Howard didn't write 'I'm a liberal' letter

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Aug. 15, 2025

Internet users shared a letter beginning, "I'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of yo ...

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