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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 But two of its figures are way off, and others are out of date -- creating a more unfavorable comparison for Trump.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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No Sign of Texas Measles Outbreak Slowing, Contrary to RFK Jr.’s Claims
On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles outbreak in Texas, which is now over 500 cases, is beginning to subside and grow more slowly. But a review of state data indicates there’s no decline yet in the pace of cases.
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Yes, Brazilian prisoners can read books to reduce sentences — but only by 48 days a year
Prisoners can submit up to 12 book reviews a year and reduce their sentences by four days per book read.
Pope Francis once said, 'I like to think of hell as being empty'?
The first Latin American pontiff died on April 21, 2025.
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.
11 Canadian political claims we've broken down
Many claims spread online ahead of federal elections on April 28, 2025, including rumors about Canadian PM Mark Carney.
Yes, Bernie Sanders and AOC used private plane for part of 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour
There's only one way to get between Bakersfield and Sacramento in less than an hour.
No evidence Pope Francis said, 'The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches'
A version of the beginning of the quote is traceable to a 2014 Pop Sugar "Powerful Quotes" compilation.
No, Trump did not legalize corporal punishment in schools — nor does he have the authority to
Instead, Trump seeks to roll back attempts to fix racial disparities in school discipline, which could extend to inequities in corporal punishment.
Elon Musk didn't fund robotic legs for injured police dogs
Social media users, mostly on Facebook, shared a story in April 2025 that tech billionaire Elon Musk provided a "huge donation" to fund the project.
Unpacking claims that Canadian PM Mark Carney plagiarized economics thesis
Snopes was able to review Carney's Oxford University thesis.
