Questions tagged [united-states]
Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Does the average income in the US drop by $9,500 if you exclude the ten richest Americans?
A leftist friend of mine shared this meme:
Averages are tricky like that
The average income in the United States is 74,500$.
Excluding the top 10 Americans, it's only 65,000.
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Does the USA plan to establish a military facility on Saint Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal?
An Indian news source, FirstPost has a recent article, 13 things about St Martin's Island that Sheikh Hasina says US wanted her to cede which talks about the claims of Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister, ...
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Is passenger rail in Japan at least an order of magnitude safer than in the U.S. (as measured by fatalities per passenger-km)?
I've seen several statements online praising the safety of passenger rail in Japan and China compared to the US, implying that rail in the US is at least 10x less safe. For example, ...
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Was the "Skunk Works hangar at Badaber Airbase" (in Pakistan) still "locked and keyed by Americans" as of 2023?
According to a 2023 article in the Eurasian Times
The most notable USAF presence was at the Badaber air base of PAF near Peshawar, operating U-2, the most advanced surveillance aircraft of its era, ...
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Are these French government departments registered as US companies?
A few months ago, a video in went viral in France, with two "sovereign citizens" refused to submit during a regular police road control. They claimed that French policemen are mercenaries on ...
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Has Tim Walz ever supported a semi-automatic rifle ban?
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus says this on their website:
Governor Walz has also called on a complete BAN on magazines holding more than 10 rounds and has previously supported bans on semi-...
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If adjusted for IQ, do all races earn the same in the US?
In book The Global Bell Curve by Richard Lynn, there is the following table:
Herrnstein and Murray addressed the problem of how far
the lower socioeconomic status and earnings of blacks and Hispanics
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Is US Citizen, Omali Yeshitela, facing jail for producing pro-Russian propaganda?
The video INTERVIEW: Omali Yeshitela, Facing 15-Years for “Pro-Russian Propaganda” by Glenn Greenwald claims that Omali Yeshitela, an American citizen, is facing a 12 year jail sentence for “Pro-...
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Did Joe Biden refer to himself as a black woman?
The Telegraph claims that Joe Biden has made the statement on Philadelphia radio station
“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice-president, first black woman… to serve with a black ...
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Are there merely 800 American students in China?
Those disagreements have overshadowed everything. But when President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met last November, they agreed to encourage more student exchanges as a way to stabilize ...
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Did James Madison say or write that the 10 Commandments are critical to the US nation?
Louisiana (the US state) recently passed a law requiring the biblical Ten Commandments be posted in every single classroom that is part of a school that receives public funding, including universities....
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Are 1/20 undocumented immigrants married to American citizens?
The Washington Post reported,
An estimated 500,000 immigrants, most from Mexico, married to U.S. citizens will be eligible to apply for permanent residency through their spouses. Federal law requires ...
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Is there racial bias in police shootings in America?
On Triggernometry show Roland G. Fryer Jr. makes the claim
I thought I was going to be able to show that the police were biased very easily, and then we gathered literally millions
and millions of ...
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Did 'regulated' in the US's Second Amendment refer to function or restriction?
Colion Noir, a gun rights activist, while commenting on an interview of Jon Stewart about the US constitution's Second Amendment, made a claim:
John thinks that well-regulated means controlled or ...
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Does using electricity from the grid in the U.S. result in more greenhouse gas emissions than using propane?
A recent opinion piece, Why the EPA shouldn’t favor school bus electrification, makes the following claim (link in original):
At last check, the average carbon intensity of the U.S. electric grid was ...
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As of May 2024, does the US state of Georgia prohibit "water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in an election"?
On 19 May 2024 at Morehouse College, Joe Biden said:
But let’s be clear what happens to you and your family when old ghosts in new garments seize power, extremists come for the freedoms you thought ...
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Did a doctor Helen Zhu warn about a mounting epidemic in the US and receive a gag order?
A press release from the Chinese Embassy criticizes the state of free speech in the US, and claims that
Helen Zhu, a female doctor of Chinese descent who warned about the epidemic in the United ...
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Did the DC Circuit court "blatantly disregard" a Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo detainees for [at least] 5 years?
A 2013 piece by the Center for American Progress claims that
Since 2008, the [DC] circuit court has blatantly disregarded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to habeas corpus rights for ...
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Did President Richard Nixon say that the Warren Report was a hoax?
David Talbot writes in The mother of all coverups:
On a White House tape recording, President Nixon is heard telling
aides that the Warren Report "was the greatest hoax that has ever been
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Was Iran's attack on Israel secretly coordinated with the USA?
In the article The whole event was premeditated: the secret "deal" that Iran made with the US (English translation), the author claims that Iran's attack on Israel was coordinated with the ...
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When did Saddam Hussein kill 12,000 people in one day through the use of chemical weapons?
In 2023Mar, 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq led by the US & the UK and the 1st anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the AFP News Agency posted an interview with former UK ...
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Did black Americans make up 55.9% of known murder offenders in 2019?
The White Nationalist site VDARE claimed in a 2020 blog article:
The FBI has released its national crime stats for 2019. Murder was down 0.2%.
While blacks made up 52.5% of known murder offenders ...
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Did addiction rates and overdose rates skyrocket more in Oregon than in the rest of the US?
I read on Oregon recriminalises drug possession after overdoses rocket that:
The law rolls back an experimental policy [Measure 110] - the most liberal drug measure in the US - that made possession ...
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Is Tucker Carlson "accepting money from the Russian government"?
In a Q&A session following a talk on geopolitics, Peter Zeihan (a well-known geopolitical analyst and author) claims that Tucker Carlson is being paid by Russia to push its agenda, as he answers a ...
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Did black people commit 18 times more murders per capita than white people in 2021?
The picture below is posted on 4chan.org (a NSFW website) and seems to claim that in 2021, black people committed 18 times more murders per capita than White people?
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white male Murderers per 100,...
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Has Biden spent 40% of his presidency on vacation?
Fox News states:
In a related story, Biden will be taking another long weekend at the
beach and has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation," Fox News
contributor Joe Concha posted
Has Biden ...
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Do members of Congress get physical access to federally funded facilities?
This Feb 2024 Gateway Pundit article describes an attempt by two Republican congress members to inspect rooms at a Ramada Inn in Arizona that had allegedly been rented by the Casa Alitas program to ...
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Did a US soldier climb onto an unmanned T-54 during the Checkpoint Charlie standoff of Oct 1961?
A US soldier present at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961 says he climbed into or at least onto an unmanned T-54 and looked inside the unmanned driver compartment to identify it if was a Soviet or East ...
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Did San Francisco mayor London Breed "decline to veto" a resolution on a Gaza ceasefire?
The Associated Press reported on January 20:
Amid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended ...
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Do one in three public school students wear at least partial animal costumes at school?
This video from Not the Bee, a somewhat popular American right-wing news site, claims, (quoted from YouTube's transcript, with punctuation added for readability and emphasis added to show the claim I'...
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Was Nikki Haley disqualified from a beauty pageant because of race?
2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley just said this to NBC News:
If you want to know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn’t white or ...
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Has Donald Trump explicitly endorsed Project 2025?
Wikipedia claims in the opening paragraph of the article about Trump's 2024 campaign, "Trump has campaigned on vastly expanding the authority of the federal government, particularly the executive ...
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Is San Francisco's Chinatown contaminated with mercury from a 1901 "disinfection program"?
This one comes from Wikipedia's article Mercury(II) chloride, which cites Susan Craddock, "City of Plagues":
Between 1901 and 1904 the Marines Hospital Service quarantined and engaged in an ...
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Did Joe Biden mumble/stutter after saying "America is a nation that can be defined in a single word"?
In a video of the Hindustan Times, Joe Biden seems to be saying:
America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: Asufutimaehaehfutbw
I can't help but wonder if it is a fake.
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Did Henry Kissinger say "it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal"?
It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend
is fatal.
This quote is attributed to Henry Kissinger.
I did find many references such as this WSJ article that further this ...
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Was there widespread voter fraud in Michigan in the 2020 Presidential Elections?
Vosiznies (VINnews), a right-leaning Orthodox Jewish news site, has claimed that there has been
disturbing and sizable evidence of systemic voter
fraud in Michigan.
They cite a video that they claim ...
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Does the US operate 400-metre tall towers/antennas in Israel?
Wikipedia had this claim up for about 15 years:
Dimona Radar Facility (Hebrew: מתקן המכ"ם בדימונה) is a radar facility near Dimona, Israel, owned and operated by the United States.
The Dimona ...
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Was Stuart Seldowitz "Obama's former/ex-director of the National Security Council"?
There's a related Q here about some other past job claims about him, but there's also, e.g. in the Daily Mail:
Barack Obama's former director of the National Security Council has been unmasked as a ...
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Did Stuart Seldowitz work as Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs?
According to this New York Post article, former White House official Stuart Seldowitz said,
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as ...
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Did US president Theodore Roosevelt call Democrats "prison vermin"?
According to two very non-primary references, the President called Democrats "prison vermin".
The first is the 1902 Political X-rays, saying that it is quoting from an 8 November 1901 letter ...
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Would US president Theodore Roosevelt refer to his political enemies as "vermin"?
A publication of the Library of Congress says:
Mr. Foulke in his letters reveals an unusual frankness in letting President Roosevelt know of the attitudes of his political enemies -- "small ...
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Does an Arrow 3 cost more than 10 times less than its closest US equivalent (SM-3 Block IIA)?
According to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, an Arrow 3 costs $2,200,000, while a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IIA
costs $36,387,000.
Both of these are 21 inch (fit in that tube diameter) ...
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"Most kids don't even know that Hamas is a terrorist organization"?
On ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’, in the context of discussing a (Quinnipiac) poll about the degree of support "of the way Israel is responding to the Hamas terrorist attack" in the 18-34 age ...
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Did almost 300k children get married in 2000–2018 in the USA?
The article Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications from the Journal of Adolescent Health makes the following shocking claim right at the top:
We found that some 297,033 ...
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Are "Warranty voided if removed"-labels illegal?
NPR wrote in 2018
The Federal Trade Commission says they're [Warranty voided if removed labels] illegal.
Are "Warranty voided if removed"-labels illegal?
What, if any, is the practical ...
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Was the average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners 2 to 6 years in 1989?
According to this Jan 12, 2019 article from the Guardian:
The average prison sentence for men who kill their female partners is
two to six years.
Such short sentencing sounds unrealistically short ...
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Have crime rates climbed in US cities with "rogue" progressive District Attorneys?
In a 2020 article, the Heritage Foundation claims that "rogue prosecutors" (described in the article as prosecutors who are part of the "so-called progressive prosecutor movement") ...
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Did Emperor Norton ever kneel in defiance of racist mobs?
There is a rumour on the Chinese internet that during one of the anti-Chinese riots in the 1860s, Norton stood in front of the Chinese migrants, and, facing the rabid racist mobs, kneeled down and ...
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As of 26 July 2023, will four million US citizens turn 18 before the US presidential election (5 November 2024)?
Goodbye Republicans. Your damn days are numbered.
4,000,000
17 year olds
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November election
Twitter (5k+ retweets, 21k+ likes); screenshot on Reddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter (score 30k+)...
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Does Iowa have more farmland suitable for growing corn and wheat than Canada?
Stephen Haber ("professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics" at Stanford) claims in a 2014 podcast:
the state of Iowa has more farmland suitable for ...
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