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Nikola Tesla Wished He Could Bring His Mother a Glass of Water in Last Words?

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 ...

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What We Know About Trump's Executive Order Declaring There Are 'Only Two Genders, Male and Female'

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 ...

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Trump Didn't Say Female Child-Support Recipients Can No Longer Claim Children on Taxes

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

Jan. 20, 2025

The U.S. president made many promises ahead of his January 2025 inauguration.

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Rumor Has It Trump Took Oath of Office Without Placing Hand on Bible. We Checked the Footage

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 ...

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Don't Fall for Outrageous Claim That Mark Zuckerberg Started His Own Dog Meat Farm in Hawaii

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 ...

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Trump Says US Will Take Back Panama Canal. Here's Its Ownership History

Written by: Jack Izzo

Jan. 20, 2025

Trump began his second presidential term with a series of promises, including the vow to gain co ...

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Greenland's Prime Minister Did Not Troll Trump on Social Media

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 20, 2025

The claim that Greenland's prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, made a cheeky post on social media ...

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Did Meta Buy TikTok? What To Know About Claims of Sale

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 ...

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25 Rumors We've Fact-Checked About Martin Luther King Jr. Over the Years

Written by: Snopes Staff

Jan. 20, 2025

For decades, we've fact-checked the life and legacy of the late civil rights leader.

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Fact-Checking Trump's Inauguration Day

Written by: Snopes Staff

Jan. 20, 2025

Snopes tracked rumors about the day's events in Washington, debunking false claims and providing ...

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Golden Retrievers' Average Lifespans Are Decreasing? Here's What Data Shows

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 19, 2025

Internet users claimed the breed's average lifespan has dropped significantly over the past 50 y ...

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Women Need More Sleep Than Men? Here's What Science Says

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Jan. 19, 2025

Some social media posts attribute the alleged phenomenon to women's brains supposedly working fa ...

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A white boy and woman are photographed together. Both are smiling; the boy is looking straight at the camera, while the woman is looking towards the right.

Photo Claiming to Show Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron Was Manipulated

Written by: Alex Kasprak

Jan. 19, 2025

The French president met his wife at age 15 when she was his drama teacher.

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Did 1950s Newspaper Column Ask, 'If a Woman Needs It, Should She Be Spanked?'

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 ...

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Reagan Once Said, 'We Should Measure Welfare's Success by How Many People Leave Welfare'?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 18, 2025

Social media users have attributed the quote to the former president for years.

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Vance Once Thought Trump Was Unfit for Nation's Highest Office. Here's What He Wrote

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.

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Biden Said Trump Was the Only President to Skip Successor's Inauguration, But He Was Wrong

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 ...

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A person holds a hot dog that has ketchup and mustard on it.

What We Know About Study That Once Reportedly Found Human DNA in Hot Dogs

Written by: Madison Dapcevich

Jan. 18, 2025

While multiple news outlets covered the 2015 study, it's unclear whether the report was peer-rev ...

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Biden Issued the Most Individual Acts of Clemency, But Jimmy Carter Pardoned More People

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 ...

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The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'

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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