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The viral claim that “the CIA says we don’t die” comes from a real declassified government document—and some of the quotations are even stranger than
The core viral claim is substantially true: The Dalles sued to keep Google’s data-center water records from being released, and Google covered the city’s litigation
Jared Kushner requested a private meeting with Hakeem Jeffries as Democrats eye control of the House. There is no evidence of a secret Israel deal—but
Jennica Pounds is the researcher behind the influential DataRepublican account on X. Her publisher describes her as a software engineer, data analyst and Utah small-business
California small businesses really are being hit with costly CIPA website lawsuits. But the Facebook campaign built around those businesses is pushing lawmakers beyond the
Did Israel get the United States into the Iran war? The best-supported answer is yes. Netanyahu spent months pressing Washington to attack, Israel planned to
Indiana put $15 million into Iron Nation–Indiana, a venture initiative designed to finance Israeli startups and help them expand into the United States. The investment
What began as an effort to prevent fatigue-related Navy disasters is expanding into something much larger: wearables, blood samples, biobanks, medical records, wastewater surveillance and
No credible public evidence currently proves that Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, is a foreign spy. But that does not make the controversy imaginary. She
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is supposed to describe people whose hatred of Donald Trump has overwhelmed their judgment. Political psychology shows that kind of bias is
