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Residents remove belongings from a flood-affected house in Trishuli Bazaar, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on August 31, 2026.

DOGE cuts to USAID halted program that built flood early-warning system in Nepal?

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Laerke Christensen
Aug. 31, 2026 It was unclear whether such a system could have saved lives when glacial floodwaters swept away ...
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Michigan Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, a blonde, middle-aged woman in a black suit and purple T-shirt, speaks into a microphone.

Claim Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is linked to KKK lacks key context

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Rae Deng
Aug. 30, 2026 Benson has a long history with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights organiz ...
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Claim Trump paid tens of millions to settle sexual assault allegations involving minors lacks evidence

Written by:
Aleksandra Wrona
Aug. 28, 2026 The long-standing rumor is based on an unverified list, with no credible evidence to back it up.
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Dolly Parton, a white woman with long blonde hair, is wearing a white deep-cut blouse over a corset and singing into a microphone. Her arms are stretched outward.

Dolly Parton said she once lost look-alike contest to drag queen

Written by:
Jack Izzo
Aug. 28, 2026 In an interview, Parton said she exaggerated her most famous features for the contest held at a ...
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Mark Carney, wearing a dark blue suit, blue tie and white shirt, speaks into a microphone behind a podium that reads "Bâtir un Canada fort" ("build a strong Canada" in French). He is outside. Behind him, against a blue sky, the Canada flag floats above the Québec flag. They are blurry.

Did Trump demand changes to Canada's French language rules for trade deal? What we know

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 27, 2026 Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. officials provided different explanations for the tra ...
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An illustrative graphic featuring a photo of Trump at the center. A bunch of cubed beef is behind and to the viewer's left of him, while the sun at the center of the Argentina flag is behind and to the viewer's right of him.

Is Trump admin importing contaminated beef from Argentina? Unpacking the claim

Written by:
Emery Winter
Aug. 26, 2026 The rumor is based on a number of events that are only tangentially related to one another.
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A young brown and white horse looks at the camera.

Unproven claim links Trump's imported beef to slaughtered wild horses

Written by:
Laerke Christensen
Aug. 26, 2026 The rumor appeared to mix elements of a New York Times report into the sale of wild horses, a Tr ...
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Barron Trump, a young white man, looks sternly as he sits by a tanned older woman, Melania Trump, his mother.

Did Iran put $10M bounty on Barron Trump?

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 26, 2026 A Secret Service spokesperson said the agency was aware of video from Iranian state TV appearing ...
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Future U.S. President Donald Trump, wearing a dark suit, white collared shirt and a red and black striped tie, embraces his daughter Ivanka Trump, wearing a black, long-sleeved outfit embrace in a 1990s-era photo during a social function.

Did Trump ask, 'Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife'? There's no proof

Written by:
Jordan Liles
Aug. 26, 2026 People have shared the quote since November 2016, both as a meme and in text. Here's where it or ...
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Four wild horses run through the wilderness in Idaho.

Trump admin reportedly allowing sale of protected wild horses to slaughterhouses: What we know

Written by:
Laerke Christensen
Aug. 25, 2026 (Updated: Aug. 31, 2026) The Bureau of Land Management cares for more than 50,000 wild horses that have been taken off ra ...
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Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed, an Egyptian American man with short black hair and a short beard wearing a navy blue suit.

Claim linking Abdul El-Sayed's mother to charity with ties to Hamas, terrorist groups is missing key context

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Rae Deng
Aug. 25, 2026 "She was working to help orphaned children," Roxie Richner, a spokesperson for the Michigan Demo ...
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An image shows a split with a Texas Roadhouse sign in a daytime setting on the left and a Logan's Roadhouse sign on the restaurant's building on the right.

Posts claim Texas Roadhouse servers contaminated Black customers' food. Here's what we know

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Jordan Liles
Aug. 24, 2026 According to the rumor, the employees allegedly conspired in a large Facebook group to lick thei ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump, wearing a suit with a red tie, stands beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a suit with a blue tie, in the White House's Oval Office. The room features gold decorations.

Are US, Israeli militaries 'merging'? What defense bill actually says

Written by:
Taija PerryCook
Aug. 23, 2026 The legislation would expand a longstanding alliance between the two countries' militaries rathe ...
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How you can stop Google AI from accessing your Gmail, chat information

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 23, 2026 Google AI can access emails and chats if users allow it to. There is a way to opt out.
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A herd of wild horses run through a snowy landscape in Utah.

Is Trump admin allowing sale of protected wild horses to slaughterhouses? What we know

Written by:
Laerke Christensen
Aug. 21, 2026 (Updated: Aug. 31, 2026) The U.S. government has regulated the populations of wild horses and burros since 1971.
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Preisdent Donald Trump, wearing a navy blue suit and red hat, steps off a plane. Trump aide Natalie Harp, a blonde white woman wearing a blue dress and a red backpack, walks beside him.

Natalie Harp allegedly sent 2 emotional letters to Trump. Here's what we know

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 21, 2026 Harp reportedly wrote that she was "unworthy" of Trump and called the president her "Guardian an ...
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Unpacking claim USS Doris Miller will be renamed after Trump instead of Black WWII hero

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Joey Esposito
Aug. 21, 2026 A CNN report described the Trump administration's intentions to retitle a Navy vessel previously ...
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Natalie Harp, a tall blonde woman wearing a dark blue sleeveless dress, hands a paper to U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House., flanked by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Did Natalie Harp work at the White House for more than a year without security clearance?

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 21, 2026 The claim stems from an MS NOW article based on reports by four unnamed sources inside the White ...
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A close-up photo of Natalie Harp, a young white woman with light blond hair that falls behind her back and on top her left shoulder.

Natalie Harp's cancer survival story: What we know

Written by:
Emery Winter
Aug. 20, 2026 The Trump aide first attracted his attention after publicly crediting the "right-to-try" law he ...
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A young, blond, white man with shaggy hair speaks into a microphone. He is wearing a military green shirt with darker stripes. The text on the image reads "Addressing the [grape emoji] allegations" and "MOST SERIOUS VIDEO."

Progressive influencer Dean Withers is facing sexual misconduct allegations. Here's what we know

Written by:
Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 19, 2026 Withers said political opponents fabricated the allegations and impersonated a 13-year-old. He a ...
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