Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Do an overwhelming majority of rapes not involve relatives?
From a tweet thread started by https://twitter.com/VocalFriez/status/1046487752429072384 , a citation is made of RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), saying that the overwhelming ...
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Was Ross Capicchioni shot by a friend as part of a gang initiation?
Ross Capicchioni was a teenager who was shot several times and required emergency surgery.
He reported that he had been shot by someone he knew who was undergoing a gang-initiation. He claims The ...
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Are *some* Democrats talking about ending pre-existing condition protections?
At a rally in Rochester, Minnesota on Thursday, Donald Trump stated
Republicans want to protect Medicare for our great seniors who have earned it and they have paid for it. And we will always ...
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Do the “Presidential Alerts” give the government full access to all phone functionality?
John McAfee, libertarian politician and former computer programmer, tweeted this:
The "Presidential alerts": they are capable of accessing the E911 chip
in your phones - giving them full access ...
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Do rich Americans pay a lower portion of their income in federal taxes than the middle class?
Not quite the same as this related question but similar.
According to Wikipedia, the origin of the "Buffett Rule" oft-quoted by former-President Obama is that:
rich people, like himself, could pay ...
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Did The US founding fathers consider only property owning males over 21 could vote?
I saw this comment from a video:
Just maybe our founding fathers had the right idea when they said only
property owing males over 21 could vote.
Then I checked the List of amendments to the ...
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Did the Israeli paper Ma'ariv run an article titled “The Jews Who Run Clinton's Court” in 1994?
In January 2018, Puerto Rico's central newspaper El Nuevo Dia ran an op-ed accusing Congress of being "controlled by Jews," on the following evidence:
“More than 20 years ago, the Israeli newspaper ...
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Was the SCOTUS the last thing on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's mind when she made her allegations during therapy in 2012? [closed]
During the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, it became clear that the allegations of sexual assault by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had been originally made in some form all the way back ...
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Has Dr. Christine Blasey Ford written over 65 peer-reviewed articles?
During the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh on September 27, 2018, Senator Feinstein said in her introduction, to, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford:
You are a professor affiliated with ...
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Did Senator Biden deny that FBI investigations can add anything to the SCOTUS confirmation process?
On September 27, 2018 at the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, during his opening remarks, Senator Grassley claimed that FBI investigations can add nothing to Senate confirmation hearings and ...
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Is this a picture of Ted Cruz as a mime?
Caption reads,
Ted Cruz played Adam in a mime performance of the Christian creation story when he was in high school. Is this really the fight that he wants to have?
I've seen this picture now ...
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Did Christine Ford testify both that she drank alcohol and didn't drink alcohol at the party where she was assaulted?
According to Yahoo! and The Independent:
Ford testified that:
I did not want to tell my parents that I, at age 15, was in a house without any parents present, drinking beer with boys.
but ...
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Is there evidence that women who said they were sexually assaulted by Trump lied for money?
According to Wikipedia, there are at least 19 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment. Trump has recently claimed:
I was accused by, I believe it was four women," Trump said. "...
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Are Russian made weapons poor in quality?
It is often said in various media and newspapers that Russia manufactures low quality defense products:
Why are Russian arms technologies and military professionalism always said to be behind the US ...
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Does America not lead the world in mass shootings?
According to an OpEd in the NY Post by John Lott and Michael Weisser that cites a report by the Crime Prevention Research Center, America doesn't lead the world in mass shootings.
"Of the 86 ...
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Are black people disproportionately shot more than other people in America? [duplicate]
I was watching a video by conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. He talks about Nike's ad featuring Colin Kaepernick. There is a claim he makes that black people are not being ...
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Do conspiracy theories have an overwhelming tendency to be linked with the USA? [closed]
How many conspiracy theories are related to less globally-influential countries? If it's substantially fewer, could it be because they are not going to attract an audience?
It's as if the theorists ...
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Is it true that Hurricane Florence saved lives? [closed]
Someone posted a shower thought on Reddit and it got me wondering: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/9ggbpc/with_17_deaths_in_a_population_of_more_than_525/
I did a bit of research ...
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Was the 2,975 death toll from hurricanes in Puerto Rico inflated, as President Trump claims? [duplicate]
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. ...
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Did close to 3,000 Puerto Ricans die in Hurricane Maria?
CNN reports:
Earlier this month, [Puerto Rico]'s governor formally raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria to an estimated 2,975 from 64 following a study conducted by researchers at The George ...
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Did more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war?
In his song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
When more Vietnam vets kill themselves
After the war than died in it?
Is this true?
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Is shooting a bald eagle a criminal offense in the US?
The German weekly newspaper Die Zeit recently published an article on its website which claims that shooting a bald eagle is a punishable offense in the US:
In den USA zum Beispiel darf man keinen ...
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Are people with a high IQ not allowed to become police officers in New London?
This 2000 ABC News report says:
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
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Did a non-US Hungarian citizen get extradited to the United States for not reporting an American customer of his bank?
I was reading about this case in the news - Former Executive of Loyal Bank Ltd Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States by Failing to Comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
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Did Donald Trump get America's GDP growth to 4.2%?
In a recent tweet, Donald Trump wrote:
“President Trump would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP,” stated President Obama. I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2%, and we will do MUCH better than this! ...
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Are American schools frequently short of essential textbooks?
Computer scientist and journalist Meredith Broussard recently wrote a skeptical perspective on the uses and benefits of computers called Artificial Unintelligence.
One of the stories she tells where ...
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Did any U.S. president try to set up an interest free monetary system in the past?
On this ultra-fascist page 12 Things You Were Not Told About Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, it is claimed that:
If America nationalized their currency as Hitler did for Germany, they would ...
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Does the US spend more public money (i.e. tax/capita) on Health Care than other developed countries?
The author John Green on a YouTube post Why are American Health Care costs so high? makes the (referenced) claim that US public health expenditure per capita, is higher than most other developed ...
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Did the maps for services such as Snapchat, CitiBike and StreetEasy label New York City as “Jewtropolis” for a brief amount of time?
While checking my Twitter feed this morning (August 30, 2018) I came across this tweet that claimed that services like Snapchat, CitiBike and StreetEasy renamed New York City as “Jewtropolis.” ...
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When John McCain was shot down was his mission to bomb a civilian light bulb factory?
From RT, "Trump is right (but only on this): McCain is no war hero"
John McCain flew ground-attack aircraft from carriers in the US Navy. He was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and spent the ...
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Has anyone been convicted of campaign finance violations by paying an informant before an election? [closed]
The Atlantic reports
In pleading guilty to violations of campaign-finance laws, Cohen said that the then-candidate Trump had directed him to do so, arranging payments to two women who alleged ...
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Was JFK's 1960 election win due to fraud?
I found via politics.SE that MRC-owned site Newsbusters claims that:
In a discussion of modern electoral fraud, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday offered a journalistic admission: She conceded that ...
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Will taxing EU-made cars at 25% invert the US-EU trade deficit? [closed]
Trump claimed at a rally in West Virginia yesterday that taxing European Union cars at 25% would take the 151bn dollars trade deficit (with the EU) and turn it on its head, i.e. into a US surplus of ...
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On average in the US, is there a mass shooting 9 out of every 10 days?
Reading the New York Times today, I came across this very amusing "tourism video" touting the benefit of visiting/moving to Australia, namely, "You Won't Get Shot".
Don’t Get Shot in America. Live in ...
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In California, is water from the north diverted into the Pacific Ocean?
Possibly addressing the Californian wildfires, president Donald Trump claims that in California "water coming from the north" is "being diverted into the Pacific Ocean".
Governor Jerry Brown must ...
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Has Israel interfered in US Elections? [closed]
So I came upon this July 2018 Independent article which quotes social critic Noam Chomsky as saying that Israel interfered in US election(s):
Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “...
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Do the recent changes in US drug policy correlate with an increase in people moving from prescribed opioids to heroin?
I was reading about the price of heroin on The Recovery Village and they say:
Heroin pricing varies a lot depending on the region where it’s sold, and as drug cartels have seen people become ...
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Does Florida have a law which states that unmarried women are not allowed to go parachuting on Sundays?
KHSB (NBC News) (2011) has a self-explanatory headline:
No unmarried woman can parachute on Sundays is just one of Florida's most bizarre laws
CNN talks about this law in "World's strangest laws" (...
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Is at least $70 million in health care costs in the USA directly attributable to low literacy?
According to the Gaston Literacy Council of Gastonia, North Carolina:
Reports show that low literacy directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year.
That website does not ...
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Is lack of adequate funding a substantial factor determining the poor accuracy of US state-level polls?
One of the conclusions of an AAPOR paper on the 2016 US polls contains this detail:
As this report documents, the national polls in 2016 were quite accurate, while polls in key battleground states ...
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Does the US military use an Xbox 360 controller to control one of their EOD robots?
According to this 2016 gameranx video:
The US military actually uses an Xbox 360 controller for EOD robots - which are essentially robots that pick up bombs, or deliver bombs.
(EOD stands for ...
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Was Paul Manafort exonerated for the crimes he’s now charged with?
Andrew Napolitano just said this on Fox News regarding the trial of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort:
Here’s Manafort’s defense: I was investigated for all this by the government 8 years ago ...
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Are discrepancies between exit polls and official election results in the US usually indicative of systematic election problems? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Did President Carter state that the United States had developed “an invisible plane”?
The book The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama says:
Prior to the 1980 election Carter had stated in a news conference that the U.S. had developed “an invisible plane” which ...
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US trade deficit and the iPhone
CNBC has an article arguing that the way the US trade deficit with China is quite misleading, particularly as to the ultimate source of the deficit, using the iPhone as an example:
Some $70 billion ...
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Did Republicans select a nazi, neo-Confederate, pedophile, and pimp as general election candidates?
Post from Facebook Teabonics
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In the past year, Republicans have selected a Nazi, a neo-Confederate, a pedophile, and a pimp as general election candidates. [Pictures of presumed GOP ...
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Drop in IQ due to immigration?
An alt-right web site, "Red Ice" (apparently belonging to Henrik Palmgren), proposes that there's a nearly worldwide decrease in IQ due to immigration. The Red Ice piece apparently originated from unz....
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Are dollar bills seen by the Turkish government as a secret sign of connections to Gülen?
Turkeypurge.com has an article on the trial of a (Turkish-American) NASA scientist, convicted in Turkey:
The prosecutor submitted as evidence in the case a statement by an anonymous informant, a ...
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Does Russia consider it unconstitutional to extradite its citizens?
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said this to ABC regarding why President Trump is not going to demand that Putin extradite the 25 Russians indicted by Special Counsel Mueller:
It’s ...
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Were World War II scrap drives in the United States truly necessary for the procurement of raw materials?
I’ve been reading up on World War II scrap drive efforts in the United States, and am wondering if these (mostly) community-based efforts actually contributed enough raw materials to the war effort ...
