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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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Was Hillary Clinton personally involved in approving the Uranium One purchase?

In 2013, a Russian company bought a Canadian company called Uranium One which owns a uranium mine in the United States. This purchase was approved by the US government through an interagency review process which included State Department. In any…
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During the 2019 Bolivian election count, were the comms and electricity cut off at the election HQ?

During vote count of the disputed 2019 Bolivian presidential election, the preliminary vote reporting was suspended for a period of about one day, leading to accusations that the government had fudged the vote count during that time. A recent…
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Is the USA “not even in the top 10 when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings”?

Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America claims that: the United States is not even in the top 10 when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings. In California, gun control fails once again, USA Today, Nov 8, 2018 Does the…
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Are discrepancies between exit polls and official election results in the US usually indicative of systematic election problems?

Paul Grossinger writes on Inc.com about the last US presidential election: 1) In 28 states doing exit polling, 23 states had a margin favoring Trump, against 5 for Clinton. That's 82% of states going one way in a highly divided nation. 2) Among…
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Does PETA euthanize 95.9% of all animals under its care?

The website www.petakillsanimals.com/ alleges on the home page (scroll down once) that "95.9% of animals under PETA's care have been killed in one year" as seen in this screenshot: In that post, they make a sweeping claim that includes all of PETA.…
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"White people" crime?

In US popular culture, it's often asserted that white people are more prone to commit certain types of crime that are "crazy", such as serial murder, child abduction, mass shooting, etc. This is often portrayed in movies, the most recent example…
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Does Congress appropriate 300 billion annually to agencies which cannot legally receive appropriations?

According to the article Inappropriate Appropriations in The Weekly Standard: Congress spent $310 billion last year on some 250 agencies and programs that were no longer — as required under the law and Congress's own rules — authorized to receive…
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Did Al Nusra carry out multiple terror attacks throughout Syria?

According to the US state department: Under al-Jawlani’s leadership, ANF has carried out multiple terrorist attacks throughout Syria, often targeting civilians. In April 2015, ANF reportedly kidnapped, and later released, approximately 300 Kurdish…
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Did CDC cover up studies that show a link between Autism and vaccines containing mercury?

Nation of Islam (a black nationalist group) has highlighted the following claim in their official website: Dr. William Thompson, a CDC whistleblower, has charged the agency with dumping studies showing how vaccines containing mercury have had a…
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Did Hussam Ayloush tweet that the [US] people want to bring down the [Trump] regime?

Hussam Ayloush is the long-time head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations's LA Office. Daniel Pipes is an America commentator and historian who is the president of the Middle East Forum. Daniel Pipes wrote about a recent tweet from Hussam…
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Are American media controlled mostly by Jews? (2015 edition)

There is a question on this site, Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?, which looks at an infographic titled "Who Controls Your Mind? 2013" and shows: The methodology of the supposed table is wrong. The table cherry picks its data…
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Did the Special Virus-Cancer Program (SVCP) exist?

Rense.com has a 2005 essay describing an AIDS conspiracy theory. In particular, it describes the "Special Virus-Cancer Program": The Virus Cancer Program had it roots in 1964 when Congress provided funds to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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Is the US debt between 15 and 20 trillion dollars?

www.treasurydirect.gov puts the debt at around $17.3 trillion (this will change, so I'm not putting an exact amount). A related quote from Wikipedia On December 12, 2013, debt held by the public was approximately $12.312 trillion or about 73% of Q3…
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How many Americans support background checks for person-to-person gun purchases?

I was just watching Bill Maher on HBO and he was commenting on the US Senate bill on gun control that failed recently. He was saying that 90% of Americans "support background checks." I highly doubt this, but I live in redneck country.
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Did one of the 9/11 hijackers use a Conch Republic passport to enter the United States?

I read: Anderson, who resumed the running of the Conch Republic souvenir business and the official Conch Republic Days festival until his death in 2014, was subjected to an FBI inquiry after reports surfaced that one of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohammad…
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