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White Nationalist Group Is Still Active, Contrary to Social Media Claims
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Social media posts, some pointing to comments by podcaster Joe Rogan, are spreading unsupported claims that members of the Patriot Front are federal agents and that the group disbanded after the recent leadership change at the FBI. But days after Kash Patel was…
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RFK Jr. Misleads on Vitamin A, Unsupported Therapies for Measles
In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles. Vitamin A is recommended around the world for measles because there is…
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How much fraud is in Social Security?
Elon Musk, the billionaire driving force behind President Donald Trump’s budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, broached the sensitive issue of Social Security cost-savings on Fox Business. Musk told host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump economic adviser, that the Government Accountability Office estimated in 2024 that federal government fraud was “half a trillion dollars.” While referring…
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The facts behind the 19 programs Trump described as ‘waste’
Ten million dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, $8 million to make “mice transgender,” and $20 million for “the Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.” For three minutes during his 100-minute address to Congress March 4, President Donald Trump ticked off 19 government spending items that he described as “appalling waste” rooted out by…