Questions tagged [united-states]
Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Did Isabelle Brourman secretly record Trump?
Former New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi just wrote a tell-all book about her affair with then-2024 Presidential candidate and current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In response, her ex-...
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Was 2023 the first time a person in California was killed in a black bear attack?
One recent article that grabbed my attention was from the San Francisco Chronicle, about a woman killed by a black bear:
A California woman was stalked by a black bear she named ‘Big Bastard.’ Then it ...
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Is 1971 minimum wage "in silver quarters" far, far higher than the current minimum wage?
There is a widely circulated claim that 1971 minimum U.S. wage -- when paid in silver quarters -- would significantly exceed the current nominally higher minimum wage.
In 1971, the Federal minimum ...
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Have 28% of US adults had "at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI"?
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim:
28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI.
Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A ...
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Did the Zionist paramilitary organization, Lehi, try to assassinate the US president Harry Truman with letter bombs?
A social media post I encountered stated that Lehi was supposedly the sender of letter bombs to the then-president Harry Truman and other high-ranking officers at the White House during Jewish ...
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Did Trump say "smart people don't like me"?
A clip on Instagram going run has Trump saying "smart people don't like me." It has 50,000 likes.
It was also picked up by Hindustan Times., which was unable to verify it.
Did Trump state ...
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Were the BLS statistics under Biden wildly inaccurate?
According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Twitter
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pushed back last week when I warned that the BLS jobs data would show a massive downward revision.
Now it’s official: 2024 job ...
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Did whistleblower Charlotte Djossou reveal D.C. crime statistics were cooked?
The reports seem largely from right wing sources such as Free Beacon, so I'm a bit skeptical, especially since this seems to be coincidentally a big deal around the time a U.S. president has again ...
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Has it only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into the USA? [closed]
I saw this claim on the politics stack exchange in a highly upvoted post... And I have to ask, is this true?
It's only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into ...
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Is the Federal Reserve losing $100B/yr and hiding it through accounting practices?
William Bergman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking published this working paper on 30 July. The original paper is very long but there's some short and more readable commentary from Yves Smith. ...
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Did US NEA teacher's union remove connection of Jews to Holocaust in its 2025 plans?
Tons of right wing sources reporting that NEA (National Education Association, the main US teacher's union) made 2025 plans to stop saying that Holocaust had anything to do with the Jews.
Here's a ...
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Did Camp Mystic's water level rise by 26 feet in an hour in July 2025?
This report by USA Today about recent flooding at a Christian girls' summer camp in Texas seems unbelievable to me:
There were about 700 children at the camp when relentless rain caused the nearby ...
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Did budget cuts under Trump impact the fatality count in the Guadalupe River floods?
According to this National Public Radio News article, there are some allegations that cuts to the National Weather Service affected or led to the deaths in the recent Guadalupe River flood in Texas.
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Did the LAPD destroy 2,500 photographs taken the night of RFK Sr's murder?
According to this recent interview of Robert F Kennedy Jr. by Tucker Carlson
The LAPD did a not only terrible job but a malevolent job. They destroyed 2,500 photographs that were taken that night ...
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Did ICE spend $8 billion deporting 200,000 immigrants?
ICE blew through $8 billion to deport 200,000 immigrants. At this rate it will cost taxpayers $500 billion to deport everyone.
This was posted to Reddit about 5 hours ago: score 6.5k. No source was ...
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