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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, the States, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district.

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Did a non-US Hungarian citizen get extradited to the United States for not reporting an American customer of his bank?

I was reading about this case in the news - Former Executive of Loyal Bank Ltd Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States by Failing to Comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Here is an excerpt from the opening…
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Almost all the US jobs created between 2005-2015 "are temporary" (alt-work)

A piece of research from a pair of well-known economists, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger as summarized in Quartz a couple of years ago: “We find that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,” said Krueger.…
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Is it true that other cultures don't see having two windows opened as a health risk?

I live in Romania and since I was a kid, I heard people talking about something we call, here in Romania, current—basically, the air flow which is being formed if at least two exterior windows are opened (or a window and a door, or two doors etc).…
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Do US Pharma firms have an incentive to develop useless cancer drugs?

An economic analysis of cancer drug approvals in the USA was recently published. Drug regulators’ acceptance of any statistically significant improvement shown in a single randomized trial and lofty drug prices has created a situation where it is…
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Does corporate lobbying provide benefits to those funding it?

This 2018 Bloomberg article claims that "Lobbying Doesn't Help Companies or Their Shareholders". The numbers instead indicate that lobbying hurts the underlying capital values of the corporations. Lobbying doesn’t increase the chance that favored…
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Has the Americans with Disabilities Act reduced employment for disabled workers?

I recently heard someone claim that, despite its intentions, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has actually reduced employment for disabled workers, because companies now fear lawsuits from disabled employees. A little digging led me to…
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Has any other president personally paid the family of a fallen soldier?

I was reading in the news that President Donald Trump has written a check for $25,000 for the family of a fallen soldier. The article, indirectly quoted Donald Trump as saying: “He said, ‘I’m going to write you a check out of my personal account…
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Did Trump help Puerto Rico actively?

This picture states that Trump donated his own money to Puerto Rico and "sent" several types of aid to them actively. Is this true? The picture is a "top" thread on his Reddit page with 6000 likes…
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Did televangelist Joel Osteen say he would have provided shelter for Hurricane Harvey victims if asked?

"If they would have asked us to become a shelter early on, we would have prepared for it," -Joel Osteen I'd like to know if he actually said this.
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Did the Washington Post ever advocate Amazon's position on sales taxes?

On July 24th, 2017, Donald Trump tweeted: Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? First of all, this is out of date, because Amazon started…
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Did the US national debt fall by $100 billion in the first two months of Trump's office?

According to Joe Hoft at thegatewaypundit.com: In First 2 Months in Office – Trump Reduces Debt by $100 Billion – Obama Increased Debt by $400 Billion – Half a Trillion Dollar Difference! Is this true?
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Is there "no demonstrable evidence" that programs providing food during after school programs provide positive results?

Referring to Mick Mulvaney's responses to cutting funding for aid programs (see here and here), are there no officially documented benefits from programs that providing food aid to lower income students after school? Or more specifically, do they…
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Is this graphic about female executives accurate?

Is this graph about female executives accurate? Women in executive positions earn 18% less than the average male executive. This is why: 70% Allocative hiring: only 3.7% of all CEOs and 2.3% of all executive chairmen positions are female. …
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Did the Obama administration ever attempt to ban Fox News from a Press Pool?

According to Liberty Writers: “The Obama administration made a deliberate effort to exclude Fox News from a press pool during the height of its war with the network, newly released documents show,” the Daily Beast reported. Is this claim true?
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Do Virgina and Connecticut have the death penalty for those who work on Sunday?

A Brazilian Seventh-Day Pastor called Samuel Ramos claims in this sermon that Virginia and Connecticut have had the death penalty for those who work on Sundays since 1610: [5:30] Porém, existem 2 Estados Americanos, que são Virginia e Connecticut. …
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