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Are HMPV Cases on the Rise in China? Here's What We Know

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Jan. 8, 2025

Chinese officials said a rise in HMPV cases was nothing out of the ordinary during the winter se ...

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Study Found Beethoven's 5th Symphony Destroyed 20% of Cancer Cells in Lab Tests — Or Did It?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Jan. 8, 2025

A Brazilian research team's findings on lab cell cultures were distorted. The lead scientist the ...

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What We Know About Photo Said To Show Ironworker Posing on Steel Beam

Written by: Madison Dapcevich Taija PerryCook

Jan. 8, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 10, 2025)

Some social media users claimed the picture was taken during the 1984 construction of Seattle's ...

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A photo of a white man wearing a blue suit is pictured on top of a white building lit up with blue lighting.

Trump Wants to Investigate Why Autism Rates Are Rising. Here's What We Know

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Jan. 8, 2025

Researchers point to social, diagnostic and biological factors to help explain a rise in diagnos ...

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A white man wearing a blue suit holds up his left hand standing next to a open door to a plane. His hand is covered by a black glove.

Unpacking the Claim That 37 Countries Will Ban Trump as a Felon

Written by: Taija PerryCook

Jan. 7, 2025

The simple answer: We're in uncharted territory.

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Did Yale Scientists Find COVID-19 Spike Proteins in Vaccinated People? What We Know About Rumor

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Jan. 7, 2025 (Updated: Feb. 26, 2025)

Speculation about the alleged findings of a study on long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome sp ...

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Making Sense of Trump's January 2025 Remarks About Showerheads and Rain Falling from Heaven

Written by: Jordan Liles

Jan. 7, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2025)

The U.S. president-elect's comments about water pressure, made at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida ...

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Amazon Employee Injured in New Orleans Attack Was Initially Denied Leave. Here's What Happened

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Jan. 7, 2025

Alexis Scott-Windham said she was hit by a truck and shot in the foot during the New Year's Day ...

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Musk Called UK Prime Minister Starmer 'Complicit' in 'Grooming Gangs.' Here's What We Know

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Jan. 7, 2025

Musk launched a days-long tirade against Starmer and another U.K. government minister on X.

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Was This David Bowie's 'Last Letter'?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 6, 2025

The letter has circulated in social media posts since 2024.

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Trump Reportedly Complained About Flag Being Half-Staff at Inauguration — Here's What He Said

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

Jan. 6, 2025

The flags will be lowered on Jan. 20 to honor late former President Jimmy Carter.

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Does Coughing Work Against a Heart Attack? It Might — But You Should Call for Help First

Written by: Laerke Christensen

Jan. 6, 2025

"Cough CPR" should not delay calling for help or traditional CPR, according to a 2021 study.

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The Story Behind This Painting of Paramount's Mountain Logo

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 6, 2025

The film production company adopted its mountain logo in 1914, and artists have created various ...

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Did Peter Jackson Model an Orc from 'Lord of the Rings' After Harvey Weinstein?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Jan. 5, 2025

Jackson allegedly did this after he and Weinstein had a tug of war on the budget of the film series.

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Did NASA Reject Young Hillary Clinton's Dream of Being an Astronaut?

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

Jan. 5, 2025

Clinton claimed she wrote a letter to the space agency as a child, wishing to be an astronaut at ...

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Elon Musk Says He's Taken Ketamine — Here's His Reasoning

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Jan. 5, 2025 (Updated: June 19, 2025)

To treat depression, the tech magnate has said he'd rather use ketamine, a dissociative anesthet ...

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No Evidence Hunter Biden Tried to Pay Rent in 'Art Made With His Own Feces'

Written by: Alex Kasprak

Jan. 4, 2025

"This is a true story," Shaun Maguire, a California-based venture capitalist, posted on X.

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U.S. President Joe Biden, a white man with white receding hair, signs a piece of paper. Behind him on the left is the trans flag as a background and on the right U.S. army camouflage clothing with a U.S. flag patch.

Biden Signed Defense Bill Restricting Gender-Affirming Care for Military Kids. Here Are the Details

Written by: Rae Deng

Jan. 4, 2025

The legislation bans the military's health insurance provider, TRICARE, from covering gender-aff ...

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No Evidence Bashar al-Assad Was 'Poisoned' in 'Assassination Bid'

Written by: Alex Kasprak

Jan. 3, 2025

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect tr ...

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Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summer Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth

Written by: Nikki Dobrin

Jan. 3, 2025

What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both ac ...

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