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“In citing "waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years”: “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.”

FactCheck.org says: Some of those projects weren’t described accurately. And only the first was funded by USAID; the rest were funded by the State Department.

“Breaking news: Taylor Swift officially banned from Super Bowl 2025.”

“Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”

PolitiFact says: Initial reports that people were rescued following the Jan. 29 Potomac River plane-and-helicopter crash doesn’t prove the crash was suspicious or preplanned. During breaking news events, details emerge slowly and can ch…

“We spend more money per pupil than any other nation in the world, and yet we’re rated No. 40. ... We have to tell the teachers union, we’re rated last in the world in education, of the Top 40.”

FactCheck.org says: U.S. high school students performed above average in science and reading, and a bit below average in math, according to the latest data compiled by OECD. In other international assessments, elementary students in the U.…

“The National Institutes of Health spent “almost nothing” on researching the causes of chronic disease, focusing instead on infectious disease.”

FactCheck.org says: Each year, billions in NIH funds are devoted to chronic conditions.

“Video shows President Donald Trump saying Mexicans call him “peachy cool arrow.”

“From the U.S. Agency for International Development funding, “10 to 30 cents on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”

“The Black Hawk pilot responsible for killing 64 civilians in DC worked for Karine Jean-Pierre in the Press shop at the White House during the Biden administration.”

“Photo shows Black Hawk helicopter pilot in fatal crash worked for years with President Joe Biden at the White House.”

“The pilot of the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash with an American Airlines airplane above Washington DC has been identified as Jo Ellis, a transgender woman.”

“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”

“Image shows 'U.S. deportation flight.”

“Pilot of Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into passenger jet at Reagan National was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis.”

“There’s a study that came out last week of 47,000 9-year-olds in the Medicaid system in Florida — I think a Louisiana scientist called Mawson — that shows the opposite," meaning that vaccines cause autism.”

FactCheck.org says: The paper has several methodological issues. It was funded by an anti-vaccine group.

“President Trump had to stop $50 million in American dollars from going to Gaza to fund condoms.”

“The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

“The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.”

“This authentic photo shows a man wearing a 'Latinos for Trump' arrested by ICE.”

“Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.”

PolitiFact says: Experts PolitiFact interviewed called the executive order’s definitions of what defines a male and a female as scientifically flawed and legally awkward. But no one believed the order’s language would lead the federal g…

“Trump “just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid.”