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MixedActor Steve Buscemi was attacked on the streets of New York City and hospitalized, as social media users claimed in August 2026.SnopesAug 26, 2026Can’t tellIn August 2026, police raided and shut down a funeral home in Weston, Missouri, for operating as a “necrophilia brothel.”SnopesAug 26, 2026MixedProject 2025, The Heritage Foundation's plan for a conservative presidency that U.S. President Donald Trump has largely used as a blueprint for his second administration, calls for culling wild horses to cut costs.SnopesAug 26, 2026FalseProducts marked as beef on U.S. store shelves “might just be from a foreign country that was buying horses from the U.S. government for the slaughter.”Said by Social MediaPolitiFactAug 26, 2026Can’t tellIn August 2026, Yellowstone National Park rangers warned the public that ravens had learned to open car doors.SnopesAug 25, 2026MixedIn August 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “We were a dumb, stupid country, led by a very, very stupid person a year ago.”SnopesAug 25, 2026TrueA screenshot shows an authentic Truth Social post from U.S. President Donald Trump that says: "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer."SnopesAug 25, 2026FalseWhen he was a senator, Sherrod Brown “supported Social Security payments for illegals, healthcare for illegals and COVID checks for illegals.”Said by Jon HustedPolitiFactAug 25, 2026FalseAn image authentically shows a baby sitting in a car seat hanging from the open window of a driver's side door.SnopesAug 25, 2026Can’t tellIn August 2026, actor George Clooney was "very upset" about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wealth tax, saying "it’s gotten way out of hand."SnopesAug 25, 2026FalseU.S. President Donald Trump proposed eliminating property taxes for people age 65 and older who have paid off their mortgages.SnopesAug 24, 2026TrueTarget removed a children's Halloween costume from its website that social media users criticized as evoking racist minstrel and blackface imagery.SnopesAug 24, 2026TrueActor Gary Sinise has taken more than 1,000 children of fallen service members to Disney theme parks free of charge.SnopesAug 24, 2026MixedActivist Marion Stokes recorded more than 300,000 hours of news footage from the 1970s to her death in 2021.SnopesAug 24, 2026FalseIn summer 2026, a 91-year-old woman was arrested for stealing heart medication for her husband from a pharmacy because they could no longer afford to pay for it.SnopesAug 24, 2026FalseTexas made marijuana possession a felony after more than 70% of voters voted to legalize it.SnopesAug 24, 2026FalseAn image authentically showed a “spider-shaped rock formation” on the surface of Mars.SnopesAug 23, 2026FalseA photograph authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump in Moscow in 1987, when he was 41, at the invitation of Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S.SnopesAug 23, 2026Can’t tellU.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said, "Republicans are trying to rig elections by only allowing U.S. citizens to vote."SnopesAug 22, 2026FalseFrench President Emmanuel Macron posted an image of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kissing U.S. first lady Melania Trump on the cheek.SnopesAug 22, 2026Can’t tellPoet and author Maya Angelou said or wrote, "Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."SnopesAug 21, 2026Can’t tellSen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., once said, "Senior citizens have misused Social Security and that's why I want it to sunset."SnopesAug 21, 2026MixedIn August 2026, U.S. consumers could buy "lab-grown" eggs "cleared" by the Food and Drug Administration, and brands were secretly including the eggs in their products.SnopesAug 21, 2026TrueAn image authentically shows part of a handwritten letter from the U.S. Department of Justice's Epstein files releases alleging that U.S. President Donald Trump was involved in sex trafficking.SnopesAug 20, 2026