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USA Today

American national daily newspaper

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Dec 10, 2025
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How many mass shootings have there been in America in 2025

Different trackers use different definitions, but major count-based trackers put U.S. mass-shooting totals for 2025 in the high hundreds while a separate “mass killings” database—using a stricter fata...

Jan 14, 2026
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Where and how can people watch the “The All-American Halftime Show”?

The All‑American Halftime Show is a Turning Point USA–produced counterprogramming event that organizers advertise on its official site and that multiple outlets report will be streamed online to coinc...

Dec 19, 2025
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Has any federal law changed the official name of Social Security to Federal Benefit Payment?

No federal law has changed the official name of "Social Security" to "Federal Benefit Payment"; longstanding government usage has described Social Security disbursements as "benefits" or "federal bene...

Dec 4, 2025

Is it true that's memory lift is truth and from Dr Carson

Claims that a product called "Memory Lift" (or similar miracle supplements/sprays) is “truth” or was developed or endorsed by Dr. Ben Carson are unsupported by available reporting; multiple fact‑check...

Dec 16, 2025

Claim: Bob Cratchit’s 15 shillings/week ≈ $14/hour today, higher than US federal minimum wage

Experts and fact-checkers find the simple claim — “Bob Cratchit’s 15 shillings/week ≈ $14/hour today, higher than US federal minimum wage” — is misleading because conversions depend on method and assu...

Dec 13, 2025

Which states allow winners to remain anonymous after winning Powerball or Mega Millions?

At least 10 states explicitly let jackpot winners claim Powerball or Mega Millions prizes anonymously — most consistently named are Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jers...

Dec 9, 2025

Trump says smart people don’t like me

Video clips and news accounts show President Trump saying a phrase widely rendered as “smart people don’t like me” at a private gala in Bedminster; outlets including The Daily Beast, RGJ and USA Today...

Dec 18, 2025

Was Professor Nuno Loureiro jewish?

Public reporting about Professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro’s religious or ethnic identity is mixed and incomplete: some sites and social posts identify him as Jewish or Sephardic Jewish, while major news ou...

Dec 10, 2025

Did trump go to epsteins island

President Donald Trump has publicly denied ever visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, saying he “never had the privilege” and that he turned down an invitation . Multiple major news org...

Dec 12, 2025

What memory techniques did Dr. Ben Carson publicly endorse or teach?

Dr. Ben Carson has repeatedly been linked in social media and promotional claims to memory “cures,” supplements, diets, nasal sprays or brain-zapping techniques — but available reporting shows he has ...

Nov 5, 2025

dr ben carson neurocept (is this fraud)

The core claim — that Dr. Ben Carson is tied to a product called "Neurocept" and that this association constitutes fraud — is : public records and company pages do not show a clear, documented endorse...

Oct 4, 2025

Did Trump take a salary during his presidency or donate it?

Donald Trump publicly stated that he rather than keeping it, and multiple contemporary news reports document specific donations from presidential paychecks to entities like the White House Historical ...

Dec 21, 2025

Has Rob Reiner undergone an autopsy after his death?

Autopsies were performed on Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner: the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed autopsies were completed and the bodies were returned to the famil...

Jan 18, 2026

Did Donald Trump take $500 million from Venezuela (in the form of oil money, or any money in general) and deposit it into his own private account in Qatar?

Multiple reputable outlets report that the U.S. completed a $500 million sale of Venezuelan oil and that some proceeds are being held in bank accounts whose largest tranche is in Qatar (Semafor, CNN, ...

Jan 15, 2026

Did the officer Ross actually have internal Bleeding

The Department of Homeland Security and multiple U.S. outlets reported that ICE agent Jonathan Ross suffered internal bleeding after the Jan. 7 Minneapolis encounter in which he shot Renee Good, but o...

Dec 3, 2025

How many times did Donald Trump visit Jeffrey Epstein's island

Multiple major news outlets and fact-checkers report there is no documented evidence that Donald Trump ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James; flight logs show Trump flew on E...

Nov 20, 2025

Facebook post claiming Social Security being renamed federal benefit payment

The claim that Social Security payments were recently renamed “Federal Benefit Payments” is misleading: Social Security disbursements have long been described as benefits and have not been reclassifie...

Dec 16, 2025

Which major U.S. news outlets rate most centrist or neutral in 2025 media bias scores?

Major public trackers in 2025 — AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and newer competitors like Biasly — identify a cluster of large, traditional news organizations as closest to “center” on their media-bias spe...

Dec 6, 2025

What evidence supports or refutes claims that Bill Gates uses vaccines to control population?

Debate over whether Bill Gates uses vaccines to “control” population rests on repeated misquotes and out-of-context clips. Gates said better vaccines and health care can lead to lower future populatio...

Dec 17, 2025

Where in the home were the bodies found of Rob Reiner and his wife?

Authorities and multiple news outlets report that the bodies of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found inside the couple’s Brentwood residence in Los Angeles; reports say the coupl...