A post shared on Facebook claims the U.S. Special Forces purportedly destroyed an Air Force plane at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska recently. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Mar. 19 article published on the satire site “Real Raw News.” Fact Check: Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School, a school
Former President Donald Trump claimed during a March 5 speech that he defeated the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in four weeks. Verdict: False Trump claimed victory over ISIS in Syria in December 2018, nearly two years into his presidency. The last stretch of ISIS-held territory was liberated by US-backed forces in March
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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher announced Friday that he will be resigning from Congress early, leaving House Republicans with a razor-thin majority. “After conversations with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position as a member of the House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s Eighth Congressional District, effective April 19, 2024,” Gallagher said
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The White House blamed former President Donald Trump for new, dramatic video of illegal immigrants storming across the border, tearing down a barrier and overwhelming the Texas National Guard Thursday in a statement shared with the Daily Caller. Illegal immigrants were caught at the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday pulling a barrier open while four National Guardsmen
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A post shared on social media purportedly shows footage of French President Emmanuel Macron in the 1990s dancing in a wig. Macron before the beginning of political life! 1998, dancing at the disco with a wig pic.twitter.com/OUWz96DEmZ — AN (@FunFact75878288) March 16, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is inaccurate. Fact Check: France’s First Lady Brigitte
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PALM BEACH — Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump, opened its tightly secured gates Tuesday evening to welcome hundreds attending “Catholic Prayer for Trump.” The gala served as a gathering of Catholic leaders to pray for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “as he continues to get attacked from all sides,” according to
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion Friday morning for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to vacate the chair. Greene called on Johnson to not bring the $1.2 trillion spending bill to the floor for a vote, calling it “a Chuck Schumer, Democrat-controlled bill coming from the ‘Republican-controlled’ House.” She would have
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A post shared on Facebook claims country music star Garth Brooks announced that he is permanently leaving the U.S. Verdict: False There is no evidence for this claim. It was originally posted by a satirical website. Fact Check: Brooks recently announced that he would be selling Bud Light at his honky-tonk, Friends in Low Places
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An image shared on X purports to show British Member of Parliament Penny Mordaunt holding a pro-World Economic Forum (WEF) sign. Traitor. pic.twitter.com/jcAdKzbdkZ — DD Denslow 🇬🇧 (@wolsned) March 8, 2024 Verdict: False The image is digitally altered. The original image, shared on Facebook, shows Mordaunt holding a sign that reads, “#BringBackOurGirls” in support of
Conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) members encouraged Republicans to vote against the second appropriations package on Friday that provides $1.2 trillion in funding for the rest of the fiscal year to avert a government shutdown. The 1,012-page legislation funds the agencies for Homeland Security, Defense; Financial Services and General Government; Labor, U.S. Department of Health