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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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Does the DuPont/Denka plant in Lousiana emit 250,000 pounds of chloroprene annually?

I was a bit surprised when reading the following paragraph in the article "The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip": The risk of cancer in Reserve, a community founded by freed slaves, is 800 times the national average, making the…
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Did Bill Clinton have his office rearranged according to Feng Shui ideas?

According to a contestant of a 2005 Chinese English Speaking Contest: And I guess some of you still remember when the previous American president, Bill Clinton, when he first became president, he actually had his office rearranged according to Feng…
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Did the US (ab)use the "deconfliction channel" with Russia to shoot the Syrian Su-22 plane?

I just read this piece of news: ... the American plane took off from a carrier (George HW Bush), flew over all of Russia's radar and missile sites in western Syria, shot down the Syrian Su-22 in Raqqa, and then flew right back over all the Russian…
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Is it true that every McDonald's branch had a bunker in case of war?

About 10-15 years ago, I heard rumors that in 20 century every branch of McDonald in America had a bunker in case of war with USSR. Bunkers are placed in this way so that they can easily be found by residents - as everyone is well aware of where the…
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Has California built only 1 University since 1980?

Kambree Kawahine Koa posted this image: Has California built only 1 University since 1980?
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Has Richard Spencer called for a "peaceful ethnic cleansing"?

There are many articles claiming that Richard Spencer called for a "peaceful ethnic cleansing". However, CNN says that Spencer denies this: He once called for a "peaceful ethnic cleansing," a claim he denied during the interview with CNN. But when…
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Is there systemic bias in the approval ratings for Donald Trump?

I'm reading the news and came across a story regarding Donald Trump's approval ratings and I'm unclear on who the survey respondents were. I have no basis to see which groups of people were represented by the approval ratings polls, and it appears…
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Did the Standing Rock protestors potentially damage the environment and the local watershed through their own human waste and garbage?

Reuters has this to say about the mess left behind at Standing Rock and the effort to clean it: Dump trucks and heavy machinery rolled into the protest camp near the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday, and crews began filling large…
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Were men in the USA, from Muslim countries, required to register with the federal goverment?

A Los Angles Times article INS Arrests 50 in Pre-Super Bowl Sweep 24 January 2003 refers to: a new requirement that foreign men from a number of predominantly Muslim countries register with the federal government Is it true that a new requirement…
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Is this a photo of Trump's inauguration crowd?

Metro.us claims: Tuesday afternoon, Trump tweeted a photo of a framed image of the crowds at his inauguration, adding that he plans to hang the picture in the White House press hall. The date printed on the picture seems incorrect, however is it…
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Were additional fencing and magnetometers used on the National Mall for Trump's inauguration?

On 21 Jan 2017, the White House called a press conference where the press secretary accused the media of "deliberately false reporting" on two issues of which the number of people attending President Trump's inauguration was one. The use of…
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Are top quartile teachers radically better than their colleagues?

Bill Gates claimed in his TED talk Mosquitos, malaria and education: A top quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class -- based on test scores -- by over 10 percent in a single year. What does that mean? That means that if the…
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Can I avoid property tax by showing a judge my land grant?

In this article or here the author says that there is truly a legal way to stop paying the property tax for your house. These steps are legal, and you can use them to accomplish the goal to stop paying property taxes. [...] You will need to get a…
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Were 3/5 of the people involved in the Cliven Bundy "Oregon Standoff" government informants?

I'm reading about how the people involved in the "Oregon Standoff" in early 2016 were all fully acquitted One Reddit comment thread discusses the allegation that the reason for the acquittal was that such a large portion of those involved were…
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Did Trump fight against racial segregation at his golf resort?

This Truthfeed article, via Reddit, claims that Donald Trump fought Palm Beach authorities to ensure that the Mar-a-Lago golf club that he owned could be opened up to Jewish and African-American customers: When it came to segregation in the South…
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