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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Where is the proof that Trump is racist without using news and mass media soundbites [closed]
I think that Donald Trump has gotten a really bad reputation as being a racist xenophobe white supremacist white nationalost Nazi that wants to destroy America and make it authoritarian dictatorship ...
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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
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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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