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No truth to rumor of secret tunnel filled with bodies found beneath Gene Hackman's home

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 17, 2025

Social media users claimed the FBI was investigating the discovery beneath the home Hackman shar ...

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Links to pages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans missing from Arlington National Cemetery's website

Written by: Laerke Christensen

March 17, 2025 (Updated: March 26, 2025)

The links disappeared from the cemetery's website after the Pentagon ordered a "digital content ...

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What to know about claims the FBI is trying to 'criminalize' Habitat for Humanity

Written by: Laerke Christensen

March 17, 2025

Habitat for Humanity was among organizations whose Citibank accounts the FBI froze while investi ...

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Black Medal of Honor recipient deleted from Pentagon website, then restored

Written by: Joey Esposito

March 17, 2025

Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Nixon in 1970 f ...

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Trump didn't say he would annex Alaska and Greenland on Truth Social

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

March 17, 2025

The president has, however, repeatedly said he would like to make Greenland a U.S. state.

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A firefighter stands on a ladder while holding a device that sprays water on flames inside a burning building. Smoke can be seen around the building.

Analyzing Trump's claim that firefighters have been shot off ladders while fighting blazes

Written by: Amelia Clarke

March 17, 2025

We found various examples of firefighters shot on duty but no reports mentioned the attackers "s ...

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Fake audio claims Trump wants to rename DC the 'District of America'

Written by: Jordan Liles

March 17, 2025

The recording supposedly depicted Trump saying of Washington D.C., "It's got nothing to do with ...

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An image of former President Joe Biden, a white man with white hair in a dark suit, sitting at a desk with the presidential seal and signing a document. He is cut out in this collage and on the left; on the right is a screenshot of one of his pardons' signatures.

Biden may have signed pardons with autopen — but that doesn't make them void, as Trump claimed

Written by: Rae Deng

March 17, 2025 (Updated: March 21, 2025)

A 2005 decision from the Justice Department determined the president can legally sign legislatio ...

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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 (Updated: March 18, 2025)

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

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DOGE allegedly froze spending on care, feeding of TSA bomb-sniffing dogs. Here's what we know

Written by: Caroline Wazer

March 17, 2025

Around 1,000 TSA canine teams trained in detecting explosives are deployed at transit hubs aroun ...

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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 (Updated: March 18, 2025)

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

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15 rumors we've investigated about Tesla

Written by: Caroline Wazer

March 17, 2025

From fatality rates to a Roadster in space, we've looked into a range of claims about the Americ ...

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St. Patrick was originally from Roman Britain, not Ireland

Written by: Taija PerryCook

March 17, 2025

According to the saint's autobiography, raiders kidnapped him from his birthplace in Britain and ...

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Why are shamrocks associated with St. Patrick's Day?

Written by: Jack Izzo

March 17, 2025

As with many holiday symbols, the plant's significance is steeped in legend.

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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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Breaking down Trump's claim the government spent millions on 'making mice transgender'

Written by: Jack Izzo

March 15, 2025

Snopes traced the origin of the claim: a conservative-led advocacy group called White Coat Waste.

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Trump said, 'They rigged the election, and I became president.' Here's the full quote

Written by: Taija PerryCook

March 15, 2025

He made the comment during a news conference with FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

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