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Teleprompter at Univision town hall was for moderator, not Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Oct. 10 at a town hall on Univision in Las Vegas. A teleprompter with words on it was seen in a short video clip shared online, but the Univisio ...
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Senate Republicans stretch Sherrod Brown’s comments on gender-affirming care
In 2023, Brown signed a letter urging the Biden administration to broadly protect access to gender-affirming care. Gender affirming care is any kind of health care that prioritizes support for a ...
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North Carolina’s post-Helene changes for absentee, in-person voting are not signs of ‘cheating’
A makeshift cardboard sign leans up against campaign posters near a relief center on Oct. 3, 2024, in Vilas, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. (AP) The North Carolina General ...
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Clip from LGBTQ+ FEMA webinar goes viral without context
A FEMA-hosted March 2023 panel discussion titled, "Helping LGBTQIA+ Survivors Before Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation Considerations," involved FEMA employees and non-FEMA experts and focused on ...
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Kari Lake says Arizona was safer in 1994, but crime statistics say otherwise
In 1994, Arizona's violent crime rate was 703 per 100,000 residents, according to official FBI data provided by Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, a crime statistics research group. In 2023, the ...
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Tim Walz wasn’t banned from college football games after attending one recently; that's fake news
Tim Walz didn’t flip the bird to football fans at a recent college game, much less get banned from the stadium. But some social media posts have claimed otherwise ...
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Is Kamala Harris right about reducing 'the flow of fentanyl by half'?
In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris touted to voters the Biden-Harris administration’s actions to stop fentanyl from entering the U.S. Fentanyl is a ...
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Recent hurricanes devastated U.S. communities, but this isn’t an authentic photo of a rescued child
A distressed-looking child, hair wet and wearing a life jacket, holds a sodden puppy aboard a boat in what appears to be a flooded street. This image that has tugged on some social media users’ ...
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As Hurricane Milton moved away from Florida, misinformation about a Hurricane Nadine made landfall
WWSB, an ABC News affiliate in Sarasota, Florida, published the image on its website Sept. 23, when Hurricane Helene was still a potential tropical cyclone and had not yet been upgraded to a tropical ...
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Flooding footage shows Mumbai, India, not Florida during Hurricane Milton
By evening Sept. 25, regions including Mumbai were under a red alert from the Indian Meteorological Department "warning of extremely heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds at ...
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz extended a finger at a recent college football game, but not the middle one
Video from the game shows Walz leaving the field at Michigan Stadium, waving and at one point extending an arm and finger. In the audio that plays with the video, a man can be heard yelling, "Trump ...
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100 Republicans voted against FEMA funding during hurricane season, but an attack omits context
That day, Hurricane Helene was churning toward the southeast. Congress voted to provide $20 billion to FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund as part of the bill to fund the government through Dec. 20. President ...