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FalseImages show “Egyptian youth who put some food, baby formula, rice, and flour in bottles and threw them into the sea, hoping it would reach Gaza.”Said by Social MediaPolitiFactJul 28, 2025FalseThe Jeffrey Epstein plea agreement “was a sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration.”Said by Markwayne MullinPolitiFactJul 28, 2025TrueFor years, a rumor has accurately claimed that, in 1979, Swedes called in sick to work citing homosexuality to protest its classification as an illness in their country.SnopesJul 28, 2025FalseThree girls were found alive inside a hollow tree more than a week after the July 2025 Texas flash floods.SnopesJul 27, 2025FalseA series of videos shows massive, real-life anacondas swimming through the Amazon River.SnopesJul 27, 2025Can’t tellDirector Ron Howard authored a letter starting, "I'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of you apparently think it does."SnopesJul 27, 2025FalseMSNBC host Rachel Maddow announced in July 2025 that she was having a baby via surrogacy.SnopesJul 26, 2025TrueIn July 2025, Spanish police removed a large group of Jewish children from a plane in Spain.SnopesJul 26, 2025TrueIn advance of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, Scottish newspaper The National's front page read "Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland."SnopesJul 26, 2025TrueWrestler Hulk Hogan died exactly 10 years after being fired by WWE for racist comments he made years earlier.SnopesJul 26, 2025Can’t tellAn Iowa farmer found unicorn bones while plowing his field.SnopesJul 26, 2025FalseOzzy Osbourne died from years of illness caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.SnopesJul 26, 2025FalseThe U.S. Department of Justice released a declassified document in July 2025 that confirmed former U.S. President Barack Obama pressured then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey to cover up the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.SnopesJul 26, 2025TrueAs of July 2025, people can Venmo the U.S. Treasury to help pay off the national debt.SnopesJul 25, 2025FalseAn image authentically shows disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein posing with U.S. President Donald Trump and a young girl.SnopesJul 25, 2025FalseThe skeletons of a Colorado couple who vanished in 2011 were found dead eight years later sitting in an abandoned uranium mine in Utah.SnopesJul 25, 2025FalseImages authentically show a floating greenhouse developed by Norwegian scientists called "Ocean Bloom."SnopesJul 25, 2025True“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”Said by Ritchie TorresPolitiFactJul 25, 2025TrueAn old photo authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump with his daughter Ivanka Trump sitting on his lap.SnopesJul 25, 2025TrueFormer U.S. President Barack Obama said boys need gay mentors.SnopesJul 25, 2025FalseAn image authentically depicts a resignation letter from Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve Board.SnopesJul 25, 2025TrueJack Schlossberg, grandson of John F. Kennedy, criticized efforts by U.S. House Republicans in July 2025 to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after first lady Melania Trump.SnopesJul 24, 2025TrueA photograph authentically shows Donald Trump with his daughter Ivanka as a child, posing on a bed.SnopesJul 24, 2025TrueFirst lady Melania Trump’s parents came to the United States through a family-based sponsorship, also referred to derogatorily as “chain migration.”SnopesJul 24, 2025