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Close up photo of a person's back. The person is wearing a Santa hat and a red jacket with "Coca-Cola" embroidered into its back.

Coca-Cola didn't invent modern image of Santa Claus. Here's how centuries of Christmas tradition shaped it

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Emery Winter
Dec. 24, 2025 Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape ...
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Did John Legend pull music from Amazon over Bezos' ties to Trump?

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Jack Izzo
Dec. 24, 2025 The rumor didn't line up with any actual events.
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CBS pulled report on Salvadoran prison CECOT because it was a 'blatant hoax'?

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Taija PerryCook
Dec. 23, 2025 Bari Weiss, CBS' editor-in-chief, reportedly held the story about abuses in the facility because ...
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Investigating letter Epstein allegedly sent to Larry Nassar that mentioned Trump

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Joey Esposito
Dec. 23, 2025 The correspondence in question is present in the Department of Justice's files on Epstein, but i ...
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Unpacking claim Trump's name was redacted by DOJ from Epstein document after release

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Dec. 23, 2025 There was no proof the DOJ redacted the document after posting it. In fact, there was a copy of ...
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Rumor that city in Sweden trained crows to pick up cigarette butts is for the birds

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Dec. 23, 2025 A startup company presented a pilot project in 2022 in Södertälje, Sweden, but the municipality ...
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Jeffrey Epstein, a white man, is pictured in the center. To his left is president Donald Trump, a white man who appears to be speaking. To his right is Melania Trump, a white woman looking forward.

25 rumors involving Epstein we inspected in 2025

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Dec. 23, 2025 Rumors about Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged connections swirled this year. These ones stood out ...
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Are poinsettia plants toxic to cats and dogs? Fears of serious harm are overblown

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Megan Loe
Dec. 23, 2025 Claims that poinsettias can cause serious health problems or death in pets greatly exaggerate th ...
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On the left: An image of Judge Frank Caprio, an older white man with glasses and gelled-back short hair, smiling. On the right: Barron Trump, a young white man with gelled-back short hair, pursuing his lips.

Did Judge Frank Caprio find Barron Trump guilty of assault? We have objections

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Rae Deng
Dec. 23, 2025 Caprio died in August 2025. A video of him apparently telling a story about sentencing the young ...
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Image of Trump with young girl emerged after Epstein files dropped. There's no proof it's real

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Taija PerryCook
Dec. 22, 2025 A social media account with a history of publishing clickbait shared the image, claiming the Jus ...
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'Home Alone' cast reunited after 35 years?

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Jordan Liles
Dec. 22, 2025 Social media users shared alleged photos of Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern meeting ...
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Close-up photo of Rob Reiner from the bust up

False claim of secret tunnels beneath Rob Reiner's home spreads online

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Emery Winter
Dec. 22, 2025 The slain director was the latest celebrity to be targeted in the regularly peddled AI-generated ...
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Epstein files screenshot linking Trump to 14-year-old girl needs context

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Aleksandra Wrona
Dec. 22, 2025 A document framed as a new, "unredacted" revelation actually points to an allegation in a 2020 c ...
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Unpacking Amnesty International report alleging 'torture' and 'human rights violations' at Alligator Alcatraz

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Jack Izzo
Dec. 22, 2025 The Trump administration's policies of mass deportation led to direct suffering, according to th ...
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Israel didn't sign a deal with ChatGPT. Here's what actually happened

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Taija PerryCook
Dec. 22, 2025 Israel's deal with Havas Media Network and Clock Tower X aims to push content "combatting antise ...
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Rumor has it Cher responded to Karoline Leavitt calling her 'irrelevant.' Here's the truth

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Jordan Liles
Dec. 22, 2025 A meme showed alleged quotes from the pair, including one with the famous singer telling the Whi ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump pictured in a photo illustration in front of a black silhouette of an oil factory building.

Did Venezuela 'illegally' steal U.S. oil, as Trump claimed? What to know

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Rae Deng
Dec. 22, 2025 Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize ...
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Trump said young female had 'pert nipples,' Epstein file alleges

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Dec. 22, 2025 The court document was part of a batch the U.S. Department of Justice published in December 2025 ...
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No proof Trump paid millions in settlements over allegations of sexually assaulting minors

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Aleksandra Wrona
Dec. 22, 2025 The claim is unsupported by any credible evidence and rests entirely on an unverified list from ...
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How Sweden uses imported trash to produce electricity and heat homes

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Laerke Christensen
Dec. 22, 2025 Evert year, millions of metric tons of trash from Norway, the U.K. and Italy end up heating or p ...
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