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What Trump's first week immigration orders mean in the short and long term
Trump signing the order on Day 1 is "testing the outer limits of executive branch power in the immigration sphere," Erin Corcoran, executive director of Notre Dame University’s Kroc Institute for ...
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Video doesn’t show roads to Mexico after Trump’s immigration crackdown. It was uploaded in December
The video originally was posted by TikTok user @lizsxxv on Dec. 21, 2024. Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20. The video appears to have been taken in Laredo, Texas, based on Google Maps verification. On ...
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Claims about FEMA, North Carolina, and $2 billion earmarked for migrants originated on parody pages
But claims President Donald Trump has directed FEMA to disburse $2 billion in funds initially earmarked for migrants originated on a self-described satire site.
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No, the U.S. government hasn’t approved $1,000 stimulus checks upon Trump’s return to office
Since President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, Congress has not approved a $1,000 stimulus card program for all Americans. Soon after President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, social media users ...
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis didn’t confess to colluding with the Jan. 6 committee
After a Georgia judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to release any communication records she had with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the ...
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Longtime ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor Norah O’Donnell has new role, she wasn’t fired
Some posts tied it to President Donald Trump’s election victory and a network attempt to appeal to conservative viewers. An X post with more than 1.5 million views by Jan. 24 said, "CBS Evening News ...
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Trump’s prescription drug executive order rollback didn’t quash all Biden-backed cost savings
The executive order, which Biden signed in October 2022, had not spurred any lower drug prices by the time Trump revoked it Jan. 20. The order directed the Health and Human Services Department ...
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No, Joe Biden didn’t pardon the Capitol police officer who fatally shot Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
But that didn’t include Capt. Michael Byrd, who, as a U.S. Capitol lieutenant that day, fatally shot rioter Ashli Babbitt as she tried to breach the Speaker’s Lobby. Some social media posts claimed ...
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US’ highest mountain called Denali for thousands of years, and Mount McKinley for nearly a century
President William McKinley may never have set foot in Alaska but one of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was to reestablish its most famous mountain — ...
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No, Trump didn’t thank Ye for a drawing of them
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and President Donald Trump have a history that includes public statements of mutual admiration and a shared meal with a white nationalist. But a recent ...
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No, Meta isn’t forcing users to follow Trump. Here’s how the social media power transfer works
Meta didn’t force users on Facebook, Instagram or Threads to follow Trump and Vance immediately after they assumed office. Users who noted this change likely followed the official U.S. government ...