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'Phillies Karen' wasn't identified, fired from New Jersey school district job

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Joey Esposito
Sept. 8, 2025 A post from the district joked that someone who worked there would "obviously have caught the ba ...
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LA Holocaust Museum apologized for Instagram post 'misinterpreted by some to be a political statement'

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Taija PerryCook
Sept. 8, 2025 The alleged post was no longer publicly available as of this writing, but the museum's apology p ...
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A black and white image shows a lion looking at a robot. An insert image shows the lion roaring at the robot.

Did AI robot suffer PTSD after it was scared by lion?

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Emery Winter
Sept. 8, 2025 There was no evidence a story about an AI robot fearing a lion was real. An image shared with th ...
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Trump posted meme about Chicago that said, 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning'

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Megan Loe
Sept. 8, 2025 "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," the meme shared on Trump's Tr ...
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Disproving claim Chicago used salt trucks to block ICE from city

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Laerke Christensen
Sept. 8, 2025 Videos of salt trucks in Chicago circulated as the Trump administration stationed hundreds of fe ...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Trump was FBI informant in Epstein case. Here's what we know

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 8, 2025 Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, made the comment in September 2025.
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Inspecting claim Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed Epstein had 'secret tapes' of Trump, Clinton

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Aleksandra Wrona
Sept. 8, 2025 Maxwell's reported comments trace back to a book recounting an alleged 2016 conversation.
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20 claims about Gavin Newsom we've fact-checked

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Nick Hardinges
Sept. 8, 2025 From rumors about his personal life to claims about California's response to wildfires, these st ...
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Did Pope Leo XIV say, 'You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings'?

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Taija PerryCook
Sept. 8, 2025 The Vatican confirmed that – given the circulation of quotes without sources – all the pope’s sp ...
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Myths about masturbation side effects are spreading online. Here's what science actually says

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 7, 2025 Compulsive, forceful or unhygienic masturbation can be problematic, but the act itself does cont ...
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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Trump: 'Worse than anyone in our history'

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 7, 2025 Cobb, who was a White House lawyer during Trump's first term as president, left this comment und ...
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17 rumors involving Greta Thunberg

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 7, 2025 The Swedish climate change activist has been the target of countless rumors, many false.
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Watch out for rumor thieves are using perfume bottles to leave victims unconscious

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Joey Esposito
Sept. 7, 2025 An urban legend Snopes first debunked in 2000 recently resurfaced.
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Video really shows first helicopter developed by Ferrari?

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Jack Izzo
Sept. 6, 2025 The automaker's famous "prancing horse" logo looked a little strange in the video.
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Ronald McDonald was named after serial killer from 1890s?

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Jordan Liles
Sept. 6, 2025 According to a social media rumor, the McDonald's mascot was named after a man who killed 12 chi ...
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10 rumors we've investigated about the National Guard

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Joey Esposito
Sept. 6, 2025 For years, Snopes has fact-checked claims involving the Guard — including rumors surrounding Tru ...
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Image of Jackson Oswalt at 12 posing next to his fusor. He's wearing a hard hat and lab coat. The fusor is mostly made of silver metal and has various tubes and wires running through it

FBI visited 12-year-old who achieved nuclear fusion at home?

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Emery Winter
Sept. 6, 2025 Jackson Oswalt became the youngest person ever to achieve nuclear fusion in 2018. The FBI then s ...
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Trump claimed Chicago is 'most dangerous city' in the world. The data suggests otherwise

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Joey Esposito
Sept. 5, 2025 According to one report, the only U.S. city in the world's 10 "most dangerous" cities was Memphi ...
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No, Switzerland didn't ban mammograms over radiation risks, false positives

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Taija PerryCook
Sept. 5, 2025 Mammograms are recommended and effective in screening for breast cancer.
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Does Trump wear LVAD medical device? It's unlikely

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Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 5, 2025 A theory shared by social media users claimed he was wearing a ventricular assist device.
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