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Malcolm Kenyatta
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Video doesn’t show a man saving a bunny from the 2025 California wildfires. It’s from 2017.
Video shows a man saving a bunny during the 2025 Los Angeles fires. A man runs along a roadside blazing with fire, frantically jumping before reaching out to grab a bunny, holding it to his torso ...
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Can Donald Trump vote, travel internationally or own a gun after New York felony sentence?
However, Trump was convicted in New York. And according to Florida’s Department of State, "A felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction ...
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Fact-check: Los Angeles fires fuel falsehoods, including by Trump about water management
President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s environmental policies enabled the blazes’ ...
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No, this video doesn’t show directed energy weapons being used amid the Los Angeles wildfires
The county’s fire department didn’t immediately respond to PolitiFact’s questions about the X posts.
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No, this isn’t an authentic video of Snoop Dogg, Dr. Mehmet Oz, promoting lung disease treatment
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon, former talk show host and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has recently appeared with other celebrities in ...
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FEMA didn’t spend all its money on immigrants. It has billions to respond to California fires.
The claims echoed October statements from President-elect Donald Trump, who falsely asserted following Hurricane Helene that the Biden administration had raided FEMA to pay for migrants. On Jan. 8, as ...
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If wildfires leave blue items unburned, does it prove directed-energy weapons were involved? No
Also, whatever items survive a wildfire — whether they’re blue or any other color — do not prove directed energy weapons figured in the catastrophe. Wildfire behavior experts told PolitiFact that when ...
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Los Angeles wildfires: Threads post falsely claims police are searching for suspect tied to MAGA
A Jan. 8 Threads post said the Los Angeles Police Department is "looking for three ‘persons of interest’ all tied to a MAGA website who were spotted at the source of all three major LA fires. This ...
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Did Beyoncé claim Michael Jackson is alive and living in Diddy’s mansion? No, that claim is baseless
"Unbelievable! Beyoncé alleges Diddy has been secretly hiding Michael Jackson, who faked his death," a Jan. 1 Facebook post read. "With video evidence to back up her claim, Beyoncé promises to reveal ...
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Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.
Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...
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Are H-1B visa holders hired as dog trainers, massage therapists? Here’s what Bernie Sanders misses
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks before President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, at NHTI Concord Community College, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in ...