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Posts claim Rosa Parks’ husband owned a car during bus boycotts. Here are the facts
Author and historian Jeanne Theoharis said Montgomery segregationists at the time of the boycotts also spread rumors that the Parks family had a car.
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Trump’s False MMR Vaccine Claims
In signing an executive order about childhood vaccines, President Donald Trump falsely suggested that the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine was unsafe...
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Trump and RFK Jr. Repeat False and Misleading Vaccine Claims
During the signing of an executive order on vaccines, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a...
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Making sense of claim Massachusetts legalized ‘abortion until birth’
Abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy was already legal in Massachusetts in certain cases. A new law expanded on that in 2026.
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Did Mitch McConnell vote against sick leave 4 times? We checked his record
People shared the claim about the former U.S. Senate majority leader in summer 2026 after he spent weeks away from work following a reported fall.
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Rogers Makes False 9/11 Claim About El-Sayed
Republican Mike Rogers has provided no evidence that Democrat Abdul El-Sayed “believes that America deserved 9/11,” as Rogers falsely claimed in a statement this...
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Photo of Trump in Moscow is real, but not from his first visit in 1987
The photo was taken years later when Trump visited the Russian capital again to survey potential sites for real estate development.
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Iowa’s last Democrat on how he can win in Trump country
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Tourism spending in Erie County set another new high in 2025
Tourism Economics’ 2025 report on Erie County found that...
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U.S. Treasury to Sanction Iran and Its Trading Partners:...
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This May Be the Worst Wrongful Deportation Yet
It Just Keeps Happening I’m keenly aware that at a certain point the numerous wrongful deportations by the Trump administration begin to blur together into an indistinguishable mass of human suffering, lawlessness, and indifference. Unable to chronicle each one, I keep raising the bar for…
