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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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Is Gina Haspel wanted in Europe?

In a tweet from Randy Kennedy, then shared on Facebook by Girl du Jour (and then others) it is claimed that President Trump's pick to head the CIA - Gina Haspel - is wanted in Europe for "war crimes". The posts don't specifically say, but presumably…
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Is it true that besides Volkswagen, many other car companies also similarly cheated in the emission test but faced limited consequences?

The Volkswagen emission cheating is well-known at this stage. However, I heard some people say that many other car manufacturers have actually been performing similar cheating in emission tests. Last year, Fiat Chrysler was also found cheating, but…
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Has net neutrality always been the way the Internet has worked?

Today FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced a plan that would "repeal the heavy-handed Internet regulations imposed by the Obama Administration and to return to the light-touch framework under which the Internet developed and thrived before 2015". FCC…
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November 4th Antifa Apocalypse?

Today Fox News ran the headline: Antifa apocalypse? Anarchist group's plan to overthrow Trump 'regime' starts Saturday The rest of the article seems to describe a series of peaceful protests in several American cities, but doesn't seem to shy away…
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Are there slot machines with wheels that use bingo internally?

I've heard rumors that many slot machines use an invisible internal bingo algorithm to determine whether they pay out, supposedly as a way around the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. For example, I found this on one site (with a rather clickbait…
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Did Mormons protest social issues with the American flag in 1885?

Recently several articles from various sources have been claiming that Mormons lowered the flag to half mast on July 4, 1885 to protest persecution from the US government concerning their "Civil disobedience." The Deseret News kept its flag at…
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Is this chart detailing incidences of homocide by race accurate?

I saw this image on social media: It shows a various values at on an unknown scale for incidences of black on white homocide (9.83), white on black homocide (0.77), white on white homocide (10.22) and black on black homocide (53.94). What is the…
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Is this YouTube segment from the group known as "Anonymous"?

Is this YouTube segment, dated Dec 13, 2016 and titled "Anonymous to Trump", really a product of the group known as "Anonymous", or is it a spoof? The segment gives a litany of the ways that Russia supposedly conspired against the US electoral…
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Did CNN broadcast this "fake news" in 1990?

I came across this footage on youtube. It shows CNN anchor Charles Jaco broadcasting what seems to be a fake news story about the 1990 gulf war, using a stage, fake palms, fake sounds, etc. This article also claims that these were fake news, used…
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Does the GRU-43/B "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" weapon cost $US16 million?

I read in the past for the existence of the so called "Mother Of All Bombs" and for some reason I still thought it was a fuel-air or thermobaric bomb. However after the first operational use (here) I went back to re-read its technical aspects. It…
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Did CNN claim Richard Spencer likened Jews to soulless golems?

Daily Caller: CNN made a false claim Monday afternoon and various journalists ran wild with it. It all started with a segment on CNN’s The Lead which quoted prominent white nationalist figure Richard Spencer as wondering if Jews were actually…
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Do an estimated 1 in 3 Americans have an undiagnosed thyroid disease?

I came across an advertisement for the movie The Thyroid Secret, which claims (sic caps): [Shocking] 1 in 3 Americans Have Thyroid Disease And Are Often Told That They are Crazy, Fat or Lazy, When In Fact They Are Just Sick. A 34-Year-Old Rebel…
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Do 40% of illegal immigrants to the US from Mexico use planes?

Do 40% of illegal immigrants to the US from Mexico arrive by plane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPARr3yp6ys What are you gonna do with planes? He forgot planes. Oh, Trump, 40% of us come here by air. 40%
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Was the investigation of the DNC Email Hack performed by anti-Russian activists?

In his The Savage Nation radio broadcast on February 16, 2017, radio talk show host Michael Savage made four claims to discredit the story that “the Russians” hacked the DNC during this past election. (I am sure, also, that part of the reason was to…
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Did 20-30 roving Somalian immigrants threaten to rape a Lake Calhoun, MN resident?

KTSP reported in July 2016: According to a Minneapolis police report, between 20 and 30 young men showed up in front of a woman's house about 9:30 in the morning and "the comments turned to threats." "They were screaming at the house that they were…
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