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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Was 2023 the first time a person in California was killed in a black bear attack?
One recent article that grabbed my attention was from the San Francisco Chronicle, about a woman killed by a black bear:
A California woman was stalked by a black bear she named ‘Big Bastard.’ Then it ...
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Have 28% of US adults had "at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI"?
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim:
28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI.
Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A ...
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Did Trump say "smart people don't like me"?
A clip on Instagram going run has Trump saying "smart people don't like me." It has 50,000 likes.
It was also picked up by Hindustan Times., which was unable to verify it.
Did Trump state ...
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Did whistleblower Charlotte Djossou reveal D.C. crime statistics were cooked?
The reports seem largely from right wing sources such as Free Beacon, so I'm a bit skeptical, especially since this seems to be coincidentally a big deal around the time a U.S. president has again ...
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Is the Federal Reserve losing $100B/yr and hiding it through accounting practices?
William Bergman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking published this working paper on 30 July. The original paper is very long but there's some short and more readable commentary from Yves Smith. ...
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Did Camp Mystic's water level rise by 26 feet in an hour in July 2025?
This report by USA Today about recent flooding at a Christian girls' summer camp in Texas seems unbelievable to me:
There were about 700 children at the camp when relentless rain caused the nearby ...
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Did the LAPD destroy 2,500 photographs taken the night of RFK Sr's murder?
According to this recent interview of Robert F Kennedy Jr. by Tucker Carlson
The LAPD did a not only terrible job but a malevolent job. They destroyed 2,500 photographs that were taken that night ...
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Does the "bunker buster" GBU-28 bomb penetrate 20 feet of concrete, while the GBU-57 penetrates 200 feet?
In a June 2025 explainer article, Why Israel wants US bunker busters to hit Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, Al-Jazeera put up this infographic about US-built laser-guided "bunker buster" guided ...
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Did the religious doctrine of Predestination trigger chronic nightmares in many New England children before the 19th century?
Author Susan Cain, in her 2022 pop psychology book Bittersweet, provides the following unsourced observation (p. 123-124):
Our tyranny of positivity, stems, in part from underappreciated historical ...
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Are Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckle tattoos MS13 related? [closed]
President Trump has shown a photo of Garcia's left hand with four symbols tattooed on it, a marijuana leaf, a smiley face with crossed out eyes, a cross, and a skull, and has said that it represents ...
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Does the US economy generally do better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones?
It's claimed here that the title statement is true:
Since World War II, Democrats have seen job creation average 1.7 % per year when in office, versus 1.0 % under the GOP. US GDP has averaged a ...
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Is the US government making $2 billion a day on tariffs?
According to The Guardian...
During his speech, Trump addressed criticism of his tariff policy, saying that the United States is making $2bn a day in tariffs.
In the speech itself, Trump said (at ...
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Do expatriate French citizens in the United States have a growing concern over the return of Donald Trump?
https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-unis/4145552-20250327-etats-unis-francais-expatrie-cinq-songe-rentrer-selon-enquete-menee-depute states:
Une enquête menée auprès de 9.000 français expatriés ...
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Did Biden’s Department of Education add rules that imposed 4,239,530 paperwork hours?
From whitehouse.gov:
The Department of Education burdens schools with regulations and paperwork.
Its “Dear Colleague” letters have forced schools to redirect resources toward complying with ...
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In 2020, were there "an average of 347,000 drunk driving episodes each day" in the United States?
MADD claims:
In 2020, there was an average of 347,000 drunk driving episodes each day.
National Highway Safety Traffic Administration
https://madd.org/statistic_type/drunk-driving/
They cite the ...
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Did Elon Musk's son tell President Trump "You are not the president, you need to go away" during their recent press conference in the Oval Office?
The Tennessee Holler posted a video of Elon Musk talking to reporters, while his son, X Æ A-12 Musk, mutters something to Donald Trump:
Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the ...
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Does USA have the "lowest average tariff rates in the world"?
A White House fact sheet makes the following claim:
Access to the American market is a privilege. The United States has one of the most open economies in the world, and the lowest average tariff ...
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Did the Biden administration earmark $50M for condoms in Gaza?
It was reported by multiple media agencies[1][2][3][4]:
"The White House claims the previous administration had earmarked $50 million for a condom distribution program in the Gaza Strip".
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Do Americans have to work two jobs to survive? If so, what is the percentage?
I'm very interested in the current TikTok refugee wave, therefore I read this thread on X this morning:
[Chinese girl] - Is it true that Americans have to work two jobs to survive? doge]
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Would Canada be one of the poorer states if inducted into the United States?
In the Youtube video "Trump Threatens Canada, Greenland TAKEOVER
" Emily Jashinsky says,
If you add Canada to the United States, as a state, or as individual states, you're adding by GDP ...
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Do all the Li-ion batteries in the world have just enough power to meet peak demand in the U.S.?
From the December 2, 2024 article "Batteries are a missing piece in Illinois’ clean energy transition. Engineers and lawmakers are racing to add them to the power grid." in the Chicago ...
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Is this web-site a Z-Library site that was seized by the FBI?
Z-Library is a file-sharing site for books. It is illegal in many jurisdictions, and has had some domains seized by the FBI in 2022.
zlibrary-bl.se [web archive version] is ostensibly one of those ...
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In 1964, were some prospective voters in Louisiana asked to "spell backwards, forwards"?
This "impossible literacy test" from Louisiana, circa 1964, is making the rounds again:
There are a total of thirty questions of varying difficulty, including ambiguous ones (e.g. "...
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Did the US send 14,000 Mk84 2000lbs bombs to Israel between Oct 2023 and June 2024?
I've seen this reported by Reuters at the end of June:
Between the war's start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 ...
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Has the IDF killed more terrorist[s] on the "US watch list" in the last 4 weeks (i.e. Sep 2024) than the US has done in the last 20 years?
A comment from Sep 29 with some 800 upvotes on reddit claims that:
The IDF has killed more terrorist[s] on the US watch list in the last 4 weeks than the US has done in the last 20 years. It's really ...
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