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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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Has Trump Pence Administration attempted to block rules restricting leaks of methane?

Refusefascism.org says: [Trump Pence Administration has] Attempted to block rules restricting leaks of methane, an even more harmful greenhouse gas than CO2, from landfills and from oil and gas wells. Is that true?
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Do half of Americans "live in areas that are deemed acoustically unsafe by [their] government"?

A teacher of mine has several clippings from the local paper in his room. I'm not sure how old this clipping was or what paper it was from, but it claims that: According to the US Census, noise is the most frequent complaint of urban Americans.…
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Were the Secretary of State divestiture rules applied inequitably to Rex Tillerson vs John Kerry?

Rex Tillerson image caption: I'm Rex Tillerson. I own $240 million worth of ExxonMobil stock. Everyone is demanding that I divest my stake in this company in order to serve as Secretary of State under President Trump. John Kerry image…
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Did Frank Gaffney compare Muslims to termites?

A New York Times article contains the following quote: “They essentially, like termites, hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions,” Mr. Gaffney said, “for the purpose of creating conditions under which the jihad will…
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Is Ellen DeGeneres legally married because of Obama?

From 'I am a legally married woman because of him': Ellen DeGeneres farewells Obama "I want to personally thank him for changing my life," DeGeneres said. "I am a legally married woman because of him, and so is my wife." By contrast, the…
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Can current flooding in California end the years-long drought?

California has been stricken by severe drought for years now, to the point that the governor has been required to mandate water rationing. In an Accuweather piece about the storm currently ravaging the west coast of the US, senior meteorologist Alex…
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Did Massachusetts assume "a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amelekites"?

According to the 1855 The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay page 13: the first planters of the state of Massachusetts expressly assumed for themselves a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amelekites This book cites to George…
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Were 10 ISIS fighters/members crossing from Mexico to US caught by US security forces in 2014?

In October 2014, Donald Trump tweeted: The fight against ISIS starts at our border. "At least" 10 ISIS have been caught crossing the Mexico border. Build a wall! What, if any, evidence is there for this claim?
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Did US Consumer Confidence Index rise up to the highest level in more than 15 years in December 2016?

realDonaldTrump claimed in this tweet: The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113.7, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! Thanks Donald! Did US Consumer Confidence Index rise up to the highest level in…
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Were 14 US-Led Coalition Military Advisors captured by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo?

It caught my eye on Wikipedia's current events portal that US-led coalition military advisors had been captured in a bunker in Aleppo. This story has since disappeared off of Wikipedia, but several (off-beat and minor) news sites are reporting it.…
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Did Apollo Moon landing program cost less than lipstick used by American women during same 11 years?

On a recent Dan Carlin's "Common Sense" podcast, James Burke claimed that Apollo program to land the man on the Moon cost less than what American women spent on lipstick in the same period of time. Is that claim accurate? Wikipedia lists Apollo…
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Did increase in minimum wage cause a decrease in crime in NYC?

I was recently reading about the pros and cons of increasing the minimum wage. This excerpt is from pro #15 at the bottom of this webpage: Researchers who studied crime rates and the minimum wage in New York City over a 25-year period found that…
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Were there 19,000 rapes in the US military in 2011?

Donald Trump claimed in a tweet posted by him in 2012 that Rape is a huge problem in the U.S. military. Over 19,000 rapes last year. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/215817662998126593 But this…
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Do members of Skull and Bones at Yale University wrestle naked in mud?

Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University. The New York Times claimed that: Initiates wrestle naked in a mud pile. Is that part of a longstanding ritual of Skull and Bones members?
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Did John Nash Jr. write equations on the windows of a Princeton library?

I know that the pen ceremony at the end of the film, A Beautiful Mind, to announce that he had won the Nobel Prize in economics was completely fiction. What about the scenes in the movie that showed him writing mathematics on the windows of one of…
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