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TrueThe U.S. Department of Agriculture told grocery stores they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding lapse during the government shutdown that began in October 2025.SnopesNov 4, 2025FalseIn November 2025, rock singer Steven Tyler sent helicopters loaded with aid to Jamaica.SnopesNov 4, 2025TrueRetailer JCPenney once had a billboard featuring a tea kettle that some accused of looking like Adolf Hitler.SnopesNov 3, 2025TrueThe FBI visited the lab of a 12-year-old boy who achieved nuclear fusion in his bedroom.SnopesNov 3, 2025FalseScientists discovered robotic alien spiders from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Earth's polar ice sheets in October 2025.SnopesNov 3, 2025TruePhilanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said climate change "will not lead to humanity’s demise."SnopesNov 3, 2025FalseThe federal government “decided to shut down the SNAP machines, so that they can’t be used.”Said by JB PritzkerPolitiFactNov 3, 2025FalseThe majority of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients are not U.S. citizens.Said by X postsPolitiFactNov 3, 2025TrueA Black woman, Marie Van Brittan Brown, and her husband, Albert, patented an early version of the home security system.SnopesNov 3, 2025FalseCriminals in the U.S. are using business cards coated with a drug called burundanga to incapacitate victims and steal or take advantage of them.SnopesNov 2, 2025TrueFormer U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which required emergency rooms to provide emergency health care to anyone, regardless of immigration status, in 1986.SnopesNov 2, 2025Can’t tellA video shared online in late October 2025 authentically showed thousands of bald eagles gathered at a veterans cemetery in Branson, Missouri.SnopesNov 2, 2025TrueU.S. Vice President JD Vance said "it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their nextdoor neighbors and say, 'I want to live next to people I have something in common with' and not live next to people who 'don't speak the same language that I do.'"SnopesNov 1, 2025TrueIn October 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago neighborhood while children headed to a Halloween parade there.SnopesNov 1, 2025Can’t tellIn October 2025, actor Millie Bobby Brown donated $1 million to the LGBTQ+ community, saying, "I hope they find a cure."SnopesNov 1, 2025TrueIn late October 2025, the U.S. Senate voted to end tariffs on Canada.SnopesNov 1, 2025MixedU.S. Senate Democrats voted 12 times not to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).SnopesNov 1, 2025FalseIn late October 2025, Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger sued U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for $60 million.SnopesOct 31, 2025FalseA video authentically showed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violently arresting a mother inside a Chicago school.SnopesOct 31, 2025Can’t tellImages allegedly depicted two suspects arrested for the October 2025 jewels heist from the Louvre.SnopesOct 31, 2025False“No American citizens have been arrested or detained” during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns.Said by Kristi NoemPolitiFactOct 31, 2025TrueIn October 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, "I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis."SnopesOct 31, 2025TrueIn July 2025, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson voted in favor of a bill with a projected $186 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans.SnopesOct 31, 2025Can’t tellIn October 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense said its boss, Secretary Pete Hegseth, would go by the title of "CEO of War" because Hegseth thought "secretary is a lady job."SnopesOct 31, 2025