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Written by: Laerke Christensen
Dec. 21, 2024
OpenAI's o1 model, which users can access on ChatGPT Pro, showed "persistent" scheming behavior, ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
Dec. 21, 2024
The claim stems from the celebration of the 2025 Jubilee, a Roman Catholic tradition that happen ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 20, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 23, 2024)
However, Congress has passed legislation to pay service members during specific government shutd ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 20, 2024
The commutations were separate from the over 1,000 people whose sentences the U.S. president com ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Dec. 20, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 23, 2024)
Reports of high radiation levels in New York City were not corroborated by official figures.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Dec. 20, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 30, 2024)
A U.S. government shutdown loomed after a Trump-backed spending bill failed to pass in the House.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 20, 2024
YouTube users promoted rumors throughout 2024, falsely claiming the tech CEO bought numerous com ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) accelerated an unfounded online rumor following the December 2024 f ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Dec. 20, 2024
The bipartisan bill failed, and it's unknown whether its successor will include a provision to i ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 20, 2024
Musk claimed Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker, "photobombed" him.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Dec. 20, 2024
Documents say the picture shows a “group of poliomyelitis and arthritic patients.”
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Dec. 19, 2024
The company was rumored to destroy its unsold stock at the end of each year to preserve its excl ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Dec. 19, 2024
At 4,000 feet long, it would be the longest building in New York City — if indeed it's ever built.
Written by: Rae Deng
Dec. 19, 2024
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested electing billionaire Elon Musk as Speaker of the House.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Dec. 19, 2024 (Updated: Dec. 20, 2024)
President-elect Donald Trump's health secretary nominee is known for his anti-vaccination views.
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Dec. 19, 2024
The claim originated from a speech Trump gave during a joint press conference with Italian Presi ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Dec. 19, 2024
The tech billionaire's mother bemoaned declining birth rates during an interview on Fox News.
Written by: Jack Izzo
Dec. 19, 2024 (Updated: Jan. 17, 2025)
Jimmy Carter's pardon for the more than 200,000 Vietnam War draft dodgers is a difficult record ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 19, 2024
Snopes received reader emails and searches asking if a story about U.S. President-elect Donald T ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Dec. 19, 2024
The world’s largest octopus species is the giant Pacific octopus.
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