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RFK Jr. Misleads on Autism Prevalence, Causes
In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distorted scientific research to argue that there is an “epidemic” of autism that must be due to an "environmental toxin."
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Trump’s False Claims about Gas, Egg Prices
Several times over the last week, President Donald Trump has assured Americans that the prices of eggs and gasoline are down significantly. But he has made false claims about the cost of both products.
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Graphic Cites FactCheck.org in Misleading Biden, Trump Economy Comparison
A graphic circulating on social media compares Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic records as president and cites FactCheck.org as the source. But two of its figures are way off, and others are out of date -- creating a more unfavorable comparison for Trump.
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Due Process and the Abrego Garcia Case
The Supreme Court ruled on the evening of April 10 that the Trump administration must comply with a lower court's order to "facilitate" the release from custody of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was deported without a hearing to a mega prison in El Salvador. The case underscores the issue of due process and what legal protections are afforded to noncitizens.
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Biden’s Social Security Spin
In his first speech since leaving office, former President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration's staffing cuts and other changes at the Social Security Administration, but he made several misleading claims in the process.
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Trump Expands on Dubious Daily Tariff Revenue Claim
President Donald Trump has added to his unsupported claim that the U.S. is making “$2 billion a day” from tariffs by saying that the country was losing $2 billion or $3 billion "a day” under President Joe Biden. Economists told us that Trump appears to be wrongly comparing a very high – and unlikely – estimate of potential daily revenue from his tariffs with a figure reflecting the average daily U.S. trade deficit during Biden's last year in office.
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Musk’s Unsupported Claim to Have Unveiled Massive Illegal Voting by Noncitizens
Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency he leads claim to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on a scale large enough to swing national elections in their favor. But voting experts say the claims are highly dubious, and DOGE hasn't released any evidence.
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Trump’s Misleading Promotion of ‘Clean’ Coal
While presenting a series of executive orders conceived to increase electricity generation from coal, President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry's decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred to coal as "clean."
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Hits and Misses in RFK Jr.’s Comments on Food Dyes
In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that "very, very strong studies" link food dyes to cancer and ADHD. Experts are concerned about the impacts of unhealthy diets and obesity in the U.S., but some say Kennedy overstates the role of food dyes in chronic disease.
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Trump Uses Questionable Figure for U.S. ‘Plants and Factories’ Lost Since NAFTA
When President Donald Trump has talked about the need for higher tariffs on imports of foreign goods because of a decline in American manufacturing, he has often made the claim that "90,000 plants and factories" in the U.S. closed after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. But that figure is questionable, and experts say other factors, such as automation, had more to do with the large decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs than trade.
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Trump's blue funeral suit caused uproar. Here's what we know about whether it broke Vatican dress code
The U.S. president wore a blue suit, blue tie and American flag lapel pin to the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26, 2025.
Is Your Air Fryer Spying on You? Experts Say Some Brands Could Be Listening In
The U.K.-based consumer group Which? tested three Chinese air fryers and found they all asked for permission to record audio on the user's phone.
Don't fall for videos falsely claiming Rick Harrison from 'Pawn Stars' was sentenced to life in prison
Numerous YouTube videos claimed a 2023 raid on Harrison's home led to "multiple felony charges."
NASA astronaut's hair 'magically transformed' after unexpectedly spending 9 months in space?
A corner of the internet appears to believe that Suni Williams returned to Earth with dark hair despite it being gray while in orbit.
Pope Francis once said, 'I like to think of hell as being empty'?
The first Latin American pontiff died on April 21, 2025.
Photographers snapped Pope Francis riding subway — just not in 1998
At the time, he was known simply as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
What to know about reports RFK Jr. is launching registry to track Americans with autism
NIH already keeps a list of registries for various diagnoses, but the "autism registry" report comes amid Kennedy's false assertions about autism.
Family of woman photographed in 1944 allegedly writing thank-you note for Japanese soldier's skull speaks out
Snopes learned more information about the decades-old picture after contacting two children of Natalie Nickerson Paine, the woman in the picture.
Yes, photo authentically shows mammoth skull discovered in Michigan farmer's field
The 2015 discovery provided possible evidence of early human activity in the Wolverine State.
CIA document doesn't prove aliens turned Soviet soldiers to stone — and it was never classified
The story originated from Weekly World News, a tabloid known for fabricating stories.
