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Video appears to show Kenyan soldiers, not Russians

March 23, 2022

Video shows “Russian soldiers using weapons that have been in a cupboard since Soviet times.”

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Attack on Trump-backed Mo Brooks distorts his votes on ISIS

March 22, 2022

Mo Brooks "voted to cut off funding to destroy ISIS terrorists in the middle of the fight."

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Tenn. Sen. Marsha Blackburn wrong about Ketanji Brown Jackson and critical race theory

March 22, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson "gave a lecture talking about critical race theory as one of the components to consider when you are making decisions on the…

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Marsha Blackburn misleads about Jackson’s record on releasing criminals during the pandemic

By Amy Sherman March 22, 2022

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advocated that “each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Corrections custody should be released.”

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One America News runs conspiratorial segment claiming strike on Mariupol hospital was US false flag

By Bill McCarthy March 22, 2022

The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.

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The Biden administration is trying to buy less lithium from China, not more

By Samantha Putterman March 22, 2022

Biden "wants to buy lithium from China for electric cars."

Claim that Evers brought Republicans and Democrats together on tax cut doesn’t tell full story

By Madeline Heim March 22, 2022

“Gov. Tony Evers brought Republicans and Democrats together to cut income taxes for the middle class.”

No, the word ‘alcohol’ didn’t come from the Arabic term for ‘body-eating spirit’

March 22, 2022

The word "alcohol" derives from the Arabic term for "body-eating spirit"

A single-day gasoline boycott isn’t a silver bullet solution to rising gas prices

March 22, 2022

“In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.”

No evidence to support claims that Ukraine is killing people for speaking Russian

March 22, 2022

“Ukraine has been shooting residents of Donetsk and Lugansk just because they wanted to speak Russian.”

Facebook post uses edited images of Ukrainian farmers towing Russian weaponry

By Yacob Reyes March 21, 2022

Photos show “Ukrainian farmers are slowly starting to build their own army.”

Clickbait headline about Vladimir Putin’s supposed assassination is wrong

March 21, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin “was assassinated.”

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