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Research by Boston University theatre historian Kyna Hamill documents that "One Horse Open Sleigh" — the tune now known as "Jingle Bells" — was first publicly performed in a Boston minstrel show in Se...
Kyna Hamill’s 2017 research documents that the song first known as “The One‑Horse Open Sleigh” debuted in a Boston venue that staged minstrel shows and was performed in blackface . Hamill’s paper does...
Claims that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "graduated bottom of her class" are contradicted by multiple biographical records: Boston University and contemporary fact-checking reporting say she graduate...
Best-available public analyses show a troubling rise in U.S. excess deaths from 2017 through 2024: a pre‑pandemic gap already evident in 2017, a massive spike during 2020–2021, and persistently elevat...
The tune now called “Jingle Bells” was written as “One Horse Open Sleigh” by James Lord Pierpont and published in the late 1850s; its earliest known professional performances occurred in Boston minstr...
The claim that cuts to USAID (often framed as "DOGE cuts") have directly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths is ; multiple recent analyses and experts estimate large excess mortality linked to prog...
Public records and mainstream reporting consistently state that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University in 2011 with bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations and t...
Tucker Carlson’s abrupt exit from Fox News in April 2023 followed Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion and came amid multiple internal controversies about his conduct and comments; Fox said i...
Political scientists offer competing but converging views: many studies find a meaningful link between right‑wing authoritarianism (RWA) and support for the MAGA agenda—correlations often described as...
Nick Fuentes is a prominent American far‑right commentator and activist who has positioned himself as a white‑nationalist, Christian‑nationalist leader to the right of mainstream conservatism. He rose...
The core cheating allegations against Martin Luther King Jr. center on , chiefly in his 1955 doctoral dissertation, where investigators later found large verbatim passages taken from other scholars an...
The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on whether an autopen signature invalidates presidential pardons or statutes; there is no controlling Supreme Court precedent on this precise issue and leading con...
Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarism allegations during his lifetime because the substantial claims about his doctoral dissertation and student papers were discovered and reported only decades after his ...
Scholars and recent viral reporting connect the 1857 tune originally titled “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later “Jingle Bells”) to mid‑19th‑century minstrel performance, and critics point to specific p...
Scholarly research and local school actions show "Jingle Bells" originated as "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the 1850s and was performed in minstrel shows in 1857, a fact that led some schools and distric...
Nicholas J. Fuentes was born on August 18, 1998, in La Grange Park, Illinois, and spent his formative years in the Chicago suburbs where he , participated in speech and Model UN activities, and has be...
Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury on 34 felony counts in May 2024, a verdict widely reported as making him the first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes , and subsequent repor...
Nicholas J. Fuentes was born on August 18, 1998, and grew up in the Chicago suburbs where multiple sources report he attended Lyons Township High School and was raised in a Catholic family; he later e...
A late-1980s archival review by the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project found that King's 1955 Boston University dissertation included "large sections" of text taken from other writers without appro...
Nick Fuentes rose from a college livestream host into a prominent figure on the U.S. far right by the late 2010s, affiliating with alt‑right networks (notably attending the 2017 Unite the Right rally)...