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PolitiFact says: Fox News commentator, Kelly Powers, who was a podiatric surgeon, died Dec. 1 at age 45 after a yearslong battle with brain cancer. The first COVID-19 vaccines were not publicly available in the U.S. until December 2020,…
PolitiFact says: The Jan. 5, 1973, photo shows President Joe Biden taking the oath of office for U.S. Senate at a Wilmington, Delaware, hospital. Also pictured is his son Beau Biden, not Hunter. Both sons were injured in a December 1972…
PolitiFact says: La gerente de la práctica del Dr. Juan Rivera le dijo a PolitiFact que no han secuestrado al doctor.
PolitiFact says: Auctioned items from the Olympic and objects recovered from the Titanic, show the unique identification numbers associated with each ship.
PolitiFact says: This claim originated from satire. PolitiFact found no credible news reports or public statements from Disney or ABC that the network was sold. A Disney spokesperson said the claim is untrue.
PolitiFact says: A comment attributed to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., about Matt Gaetz and other members of Congress originated from a satirical X account.
PolitiFact says: A Texas official offered the Trump administration land to help with its deportation efforts, but the tract is much smaller than 355,000 acres. Texas offered 1,402 acres "to be used to construct deportation facilities."
PolitiFact says: None of these celebrities have publicly announced plans to leave the United States. No credible news outlets have reported such stories. Some of these claims originated as satire.
PolitiFact says: President-elect Donald Trump has not banned same-sex marriage in the U.S. Trump has not taken office yet, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have unilateral power to ban same-sex marriage.
PolitiFact says: Ireland has a 10-year Our Living Islands initiative to halt population decline on its remote islands. The program offers up to $88,000 in grant money to refurbish vacant homes, but doesn't pay people to move there.