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Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Jan. 20, 2025
"All these years I have spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humil ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Jan. 20, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 22, 2025)
President Donald Trump made trans people a policy priority at the beginning of his second term o ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 20, 2025
The U.S. president made many promises ahead of his January 2025 inauguration.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 20, 2025
Legally speaking, it doesn't matter whether the U.S. president placed his hand on a bible. And h ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 20, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 21, 2025)
Online users discussed a rumor about the Meta CEO in the days after he announced the end of the ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Jan. 20, 2025
Trump began his second presidential term with a series of promises, including the vow to gain co ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
Jan. 20, 2025
The claim that Greenland's prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, made a cheeky post on social media ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Jan. 20, 2025
Claims that TikTok had been sold circulated after the app went dark in response to a U.S. federa ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 20, 2025
For decades, we've fact-checked the life and legacy of the late civil rights leader.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 20, 2025
Snopes tracked rumors about the day's events in Washington, debunking false claims and providing ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 19, 2025
Internet users claimed the breed's average lifespan has dropped significantly over the past 50 y ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Jan. 19, 2025
Some social media posts attribute the alleged phenomenon to women's brains supposedly working fa ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 19, 2025
The French president met his wife at age 15 when she was his drama teacher.
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Jan. 19, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 30, 2025)
The clipping appears to have come from a column called, "You Said It ..." in the now-defunct New ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 18, 2025
Social media users have attributed the quote to the former president for years.
Written by: Joey Esposito
Jan. 18, 2025
The vice president-elect wrote about his future running mate in a 2016 op-ed in The New York Times.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Jan. 18, 2025
"The only president to ever avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated," B ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Jan. 18, 2025
While multiple news outlets covered the 2015 study, it's unclear whether the report was peer-rev ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Jan. 17, 2025
On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 17, 2025
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted thi ...
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