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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Are police officer's families 2-4 times more likely to experience domestic violence?
I was wondering the accuracy of this claim:
Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families
experience domestic violence, ... in contrast to 10% of families in
the general ...
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Do vaping bans cause people who were previously vapers to start smoking cigarettes?
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This Buzzfeed article asserts that there is a realistic worry that vaping bans cause vapers to return back to cigarettes:
And yanking nicotine e-cigarettes off the market could have ...
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Did Senators Sanders and Warren support Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum?
A PIIE article states
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren strongly oppose free trade pacts such as TPP and USMCA, support Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, and are intensely ...
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Did the US push the Kurds to lower their defences against Turkey in the months preceding the latest Turkish military operation against them?
CNN reports:
Analysts such as Bowman say part of the outrage is driven by the fact that "we would have not defeated ISIS' Caliphate ... without their help" and that the Kurds had just recently ...
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Does illegal immigration change the U.S. electorate as claimed by Larry Elder?
In this episode of Rubin Report Larry Elder claims:
The country has changed in part, in my opinion, because of immigration, including illegal immigration. People who are coming to the country ...
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Do more Americans want the Bidens investigated than Trump impeached?
An October 7th segment of Fox News and Friends is available on YouTube
McCarthy: More people want to investigate Biden than impeach Trump
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says at 3m19s:
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Was the Dow Jones average more unstable after 2017 than in the preceding post-2008 years?
A Salon article says that Trump's
trade war of choice against China has turned a steadily rising Dow Jones average, through 2017, into an unstable sawtooth pattern with massive single-day declines ...
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Does wind energy cost 2 cents per kwh?
In a 2018 CleanTechnica article, Wind Energy Prices Continue To Fall Due To Technology Advancements & Cost Reductions, they claim
The new report, the Department of Energy’s (DoE) 2017 Wind ...
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Does the USA have the highest cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750?
Vox has posted a cumulative graph of CO2 emissions since 1750. And the USA is flagged as the chief culprit. The actual title of the Vox article is:
Why the US bears the most responsibility for ...
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Is John Durham handling all referrals from the IG investigation?
Jerry Dunleavy said this on Wednesday in the Washington Examiner:
Durham’s investigation is separate from the one that was just finished by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The DOJ watchdog ...
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Does the United States Army pay $1,200 per civilian killed to their family?
In Season 4, Episode 1 of This Is Us, character Cassidy Sharp
Is this number accurate? Does the United States Army pay families $1,200 per civilian killed? If so, does the Army financially ...
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Is climate change already killing people and costing billions in the USA?
According to Gizmodo:
Climate change will make our lives worse in the years to come, but a new report out last week highlights the stark costs people are already paying across the Atlantic. In 2012 ...
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Did DOJ officials conclude no further action was warranted on the Whistleblower complaint?
The White House just accidentally sent all House Democrats its talking points regarding President Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian President and the related Intelligence Community whistleblower ...
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Does the US Armed Forces refuse to recruit anyone with an IQ less than 83?
In this video, Jordan Peterson claims the following.
You can't induct someone into the Armed Forces in the US if they have an IQ of less than 83.
He claims that the armed forces needs an accurate ...
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Was Japan required to open its semiconductor patents to the US in a 1989 “deal”?
In a question on politics.SE the following snippet from a South China Morning Post article was quoted:
This was followed by a second five-year semiconductor deal in 1991, in which Japan agreed to ...
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Does most illegal fentanyl sold in the US come through Mexico?
The Atlantic claims:
most illicit fentanyl used in America, where 32,000 people died from fentanyl last year, comes through Mexico. Mexican cartels lack trained chemists to make fentanyl from ...
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Are Democrats more likely to believe Astrology is a science?
In an answer on politics.SE, a Northwestern University study was highlighted, whose main findings included:
more Democrats than Republicans think astrology is scientific
Using Fisher’s Exact Test, ...
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Did Google search manipulation push millions of voters towards Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election? [closed]
Donald Trump tweeted on August 19, 2019
Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, ...
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Did Police spray fake blood on themselves in Philadelphia on August 14th 2019?
According to this video police officers sprayed fake blood on themselves in response to the August 2019 Philadelphia shooting.
Is this account of the incident true?
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Did Michelle Obama have a staff of 23 people, while Melania has a staff of 4?
According to this picture (shared over 100k times)
Text reads,
Obama donated none of his salary, Michelle had a staff of 23
Trump donates all of his salary, Melania has a staff of 4
I'm more ...
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Does an American taxpayer fund $870 in corporate subsidies for every $36 in food stamps?
I recently saw this Occupy Democrats claim on Facebook:
Now, obviously a lot of those categories are vague and open to interpretation (I've known people who would argue most of the U.S. defense ...
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Was there a camera malfunction at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein was being held on the night of his death? [closed]
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide in his cell in a Manhattan correctional facility this morning; August 10, 2019. And according to the following tweet by ...
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Did China choose to finance the US after the 2008 crisis?
In today's edition of Le Monde there is an article about the increasing quantity of money in the world, and the problems or benefits that this might yield. In the introduction to the article the ...
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Were some Russians killed in a fight with American forces in Syria in February 2018?
I just read a question on history stack exchange that linked to this Feb 2018 National Review article:
On the night of February 7, “pro-regime” Syrian forces reportedly launched an assault on a “...
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Did the 1994 US crime bill “bring down crime”?
In 1994, the US federal government adopted the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (signed into law Sept. 13, 1994).
Ben Shapiro, host of the 'Daily Wire' podcast on YouTube, referred to it ...
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Is there a wealth gap in Boston where the median net worth of white households is $247,500 while the median net worth for black families was $8?
This quote—or some variant of it—has been floating around the news and social media world; this comes from Boston.com on July 26, 2019:
According to a 2015 report by the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
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Did Don Young threaten John Boehner with a 10 inch blade to the throat?
In American Carnage, Tim Alberta's new book, he claims that Don Young (the Republican Congressman from Alaska) threatened John Boehner (then Speaker of the House) with a ten inch blade to the throat ...
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Did Marriott International issue a statement stating that they would decline any requests to use their U.S. hotels as detention facilities?
The following image has been floating around social media today (July 11, 2019) claiming to be a statement being made by Marriott International regarding them declining requests to use their U.S. ...
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Is there more than one registered motor vehicle for every adult in the US?
According to the US Census Bureau's table of estimated population as of July 1 each year, there were 268.3M people 14 years of age or older, including 260.1M people 16 years of age or older, including ...
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Did H. Ross Perot call Maya Lin an “Egg Roll?”
Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was chosen after a blind competition in the early 1980s.
There were many critics of her design and the design’s realization was an uphill battle at ...
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Do the Republican tax cuts cost more than forgiving student debt?
In today's US political climate, a big talking point for some of the Democratic Party candidates is the forgiveness of student loans. Whenever I hear this discussed among my peers, the consensus is ...
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In Alabama, if a person is found not guilty of rape, is their accuser assumed to be lying?
jessica a. m. @my2k
so the Alabama abortion criminalization bill has an extra tacked onto the end of it wherein, if a woman reports being raped and they find the person she accused not guilty, SHE ...
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Has the consumption of electricity, steel, copper, gold, water, paper, etc… decreased or flatlined in the U.S. since around 2009?
The following claims are made in this Wired magazine article titled, “How the iPhone Helped Save the Planet” from June 29, 2019; bold emphasis is mine:
“Total electricity use in the US, for example,...
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Is this 1977 “thank you” letter from Joe Biden real?
The following letter (dated June 30, 1977) claiming to be from Joe Biden is currently floating around social media. Is this real?
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Were Oscar and Valeria Martinez denied the ability to claim asylum at a port of entry?
Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro said this in last night’s debate:
If I were president today, I would sign an executive order that would get rid of Trump’...
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Is Iran recovering debris of the shot-down Global Hawk in its own coastal waters?
There is currently contradicting information regarding to the location where the USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk was shot down by Iranian forces, with the US claiming it happened over international waters and ...
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Did the CIA blow up a Siberian pipeline in 1982?
The Telegraph claimed in 2004 that the CIA blew up a Russian gas pipeline in Siberia, by tricking the operator into installing booby-trapped software.
Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary ...
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Have 82 officers been charged for on-duty shootings since 2005?
Multiple news sources ranging from 2 years ago to now, such as CNN, NBC, New York Magazine, PBS, Salon, Vox, and NPR mention that between 2005 and May 2017, around 80 police officers have been charged ...
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Has Congress's Office of Compliance secretly settled sexual harassment lawsuits?
Info Wars host, Mike Cernovich claims, via a recent Change.org petition that Congress has sealed settled sexual harassment lawsuits from the public record?
What if I told you that Congressmen ...
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Is the infant mortality rate among African-American babies in Youngstown, Ohio greater than that of babies in Iran?
In a town hall meeting on June 2, 2019 with Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH), the candidate stated the following (emphasis mine)
Now, a lot of people don't know, but Youngstown, Ohio is 50 percent ...
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Did an American kindergarten teach children the alphabet using corporate logos?
On Reddit, Facebook and elsewhere, a picture went mildly viral claiming that in the USA, a kindergarten is using corporate logos to teach the alphabet:
The posts or their comments do not include any ...
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Is it illegal in Alaska to wake up a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph?
DumbLaws.com claim:
While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.
The Gray Line Alaska blog repeats the claim.
There is also a ...
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Could a foreign head of government be inadmissible to the US because of past drug use?
From the Guardian:
Michael Gove’s admission that he took cocaine 20 years ago has triggered speculation that if he were to become the next British prime minister, he could be banned from visiting ...
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Were Papadopoulos, Manafort, and Flynn subjects of FISA applications?
Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said this in December, in a closed-door hearing of the House Judiciary Committee (on pages 66-67 of this transcript, released a few days ago):
I want to ...
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Did thousands of women die every year due to illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade?
Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood, has repeatedly said that thousands of women died every year as a result of abortions prior to Roe v. Wade:
We face a real situation where Roe could ...
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Is the penalty for a woman having an abortion more severe than the penalty for rape?
On social media there are a lot of posts fuelled by the recent restrictions on abortion in Alabama and Missouri.
Some of these (the first is from Instagram and the second is from Twitter, although I ...
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Is food becoming less nutritious because of depletion of soil minerals and nutrients?
Over and over, I have heard and read claims that the soil growing much of the planet's crops is "depleted" and thus our foods do not have sufficient minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients.
Five ...
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Is America “seeing a spike in celibacy fuelled by economics, technology and female empowerment?”
From The Economist:
America is seeing a spike in celibacy fuelled by economics, technology and female empowerment.
Also from The Economist (emphasis added):
Who could have predicted a little ...
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Is the US constitution based on the religious principles? [closed]
This site makes the claim: https://donotlink.it/N72k
Indeed, our second president and co-author of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, issued a fervent warning to future generations that “...
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Was the Highlands Ranch shooting the 115th mass shooting in the US in 2019
I was reading an article from the BBC about the Highlands Ranch School shooting and they made the following claim
This is believed to be the 115th mass shooting in the US in 2019.
This was on the ...
