The Huggies "Lion King"-themed diaper does not have sinister connotations, as social media users have repeatedly claimed.

A rumor that the younger daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, said her father was gay and her mother, ...

Also on May 21 Dr. Robert Redfield, a former CDC director, told NewsNation, referring to the Ebola outbreak ( at 6:08, ...

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In May 2026, posts on Facebook claimed the historian Heather Cox Richardson started a livestream at 3 a.m. to announce she ...

As we've had occasion to point out previously, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had a complicated relationship with issues of race. Born and raised in the South in the early part of the 20th century, ...

On Monday, two teenagers fatally shot three people at a San Diego mosque, then killed themselves, according to police. Soon after the shooting, rumors spread online that the pair were a transgender ...

Social media users claimed Trump said "loyalty outranks law" while answering a question about a nearly $1.8 billion fund the Department of Justice created to compensate the president's allies who ...

As an unfounded rumor that farmers in the U.S. were finding "boxes of ticks" in their fields spread in the spring of 2026, a ...

Residents around Lake Tahoe are being told they will not lose electricity due to changes in their electricity supplier.

Harward appeared on "America's Newsroom" on May 19, 2026, and seemed to be the victim of some unfortunate lighting — as well ...

"The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint," TSA guidance reads.