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Questions tagged [united-states]

Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.

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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Do single, childless women earn more than their male counterparts in urban USA?

The Daily Wire has a 2016 article that claims that women are not victims of pay discrimination. The general topic is covered by a relation question here: Are women underpaid relative to men? However, one more specific claim that is made is that…
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Is Barack Obama's Birth Certificate a Forgery of Johanna Ah'nee's birth certificate?

I realize the general question has been covered before but there is new supposed evidence "uncovered" by Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, as presented in a recent press conference (part of which is in this youtube video).…
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Would it cost $370 million (probably more now) for NASA to move to SI unit of measurements?

Back in 2009 there was some traction for conversion to SI units completely. According to this article, NASA recently calculated that converting the relevant drawings, software and documentation to the “International System” of units (SI) would…
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Is the NSA installing surveillance codes in iPhones by calling Sprint customers?

I've got a iPhone 6s on the EE network. Today I got a SMS from +44 865 6696 which had the content "Message not found". If I put the number into a t9 predictive text emulator, it spells "Unknown" I've found a source on InfoWars that suggest it's…
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Does fluoridation and chlorination in the US cause thyroid issues?

From an answer in Travel.SE with a net score of 10: Mains water is typically laced with chlorine and fluoride by law, to the point that you step out of the shower smelling [like] you just stepped out of a swimming pool. So you will meet many…
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Do informed, alert communities increase national safety?

The US Department of Homeland Security has created the If You See Something, Say Something national campaign with the claim that "It Takes a Community to Protect a Community" and "Informed, alert communities play a critical role in keeping our…
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Is there any DNA evidence that show that Chinese discovered America before Columbus?

Gavin Menzies makes the claim that the Chinese discovered and settled in America, many centuries before Columbus and Europeans did. He based his claim on the DNA evidence: Close similarity between the Chinese and native Americans suggest regent…
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Have any Freeman of the land applications been successful in court?

I've been reading about various groups purporting to be Freeman-on-the-land, which believe that contractual ties between the government and these people are only valid if the people consent to them. However, despite digging quite deep, I have not…
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Did the United States' internment involve Japanese foreign nationals?

The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, David Bowers, wrote in a statement President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from Isis…
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Is the cause for the Berkeley Boom "unknown"?

Articles about the unsolved mystery of the "Berkeley Boom" claim that the loud noises that can be heard throughout Berkeley, California, and in neighbouring cities, might be caused by fireworks, cops, oil companies, nuclear testing, car engines,…
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Is the FCC planning to restrict installation of custom software on radio-enabled devices?

Recently I came across this Reddit post regarding the fact that the FCC is planning to prevent consumers from installing custom firmware and OSes on radio/WiFi enabled devices. Is this really what this proposal is trying to do, or is this just a…
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Are there 30 million non-legal immigrants in the United States?

Ann Coulter's Adios America book claims that there are 30 million non-legal immigrants in the United States. In an interview, she explained that figure comes from: a Bear Stearns study of several factors, including school enrollment in illegal…
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Did Gina Grant serve only 12 months in prison for killing her mother?

Today, a professor of ethics was discussing the story of Gina Grant, a straight-A student, aged 14, who stabbed her mother to death by a crystal candlestick with the help of her boyfriend who tried to present it as a suicide; Grant got her Harvard…
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Do 99.99% of federal grand juries indict?

The headline of this Washington Post article advertises: The single chart that shows that federal grand juries indict 99.99 percent of the time The chart itself compares the number of cases that were rejected by a federal grand jury (apparently…
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Does a video show Michael Brown robbing a store in Ferguson the day he was shot?

The Inquisitr reports that there is a conspiracy theory regarding the alleged robbery by shooting victim Michael Brown. The theory claims that the video, claimed by the police to prove Brown robbed a store, is not from August 2014as claimed, but…
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