Real median U.S. household income rose over the past two decades.
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Median household income in the United States has not kept pace with inflation over the past two decades.
MOSTLY BS
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United States
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Spotify launched in the United States on July 14, 2011.
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Spotify launched in the United States in July 2009.
TOTAL BS
The agreement covers 65 billion barrels while Venezuela retains resource ownership.
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Donald Trump signed an agreement with Venezuela that gives the United States control of 65 million barrels of oil.
TOTAL BS
Federal law does not designate the United States as Christian.
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The United States is officially a Christian nation under its Constitution or federal law.
TOTAL BS
U.S. COVID-19 deaths were generally undercounted, not politically inflated.
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COVID-19 death counts in the United States during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic were systematically inflated for political reasons.
TOTAL BS
Texas has a mixed Southern, Western, Southwestern, and distinct Texan identity.
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Texas is predominantly regarded, culturally rather than geographically, as a Southern state.
MOSTLY BS
Israeli officials authorized arms transfers to Iran after the U.S. embargo.
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The Government of Israel authorized arms sales to the Islamic Republic of Iran after the United States imposed an arms embargo on Iran.
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Investigations found CIA contacts with accused traffickers but no institutional trafficking.
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The Central Intelligence Agency participates in the proliferation of illegal drugs in the United States.
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Donald Trump began his second, nonconsecutive presidential term on January 20, 2025.
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Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States for a second term in January 2025.
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Canada and the United States gave conflicting accounts of last-minute trade terms.
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The United States introduced new trade and tariff-related demands in the final hours of negotiations with Canada on August 21, 2026.
SOME BS
Greer accused Canada of new demands and reversing commitments.
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Jamieson Greer said that Canada introduced new demands and withdrew from previously agreed commitments during the final hours of the August 2026 Canada–United States trade negotiations.
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The 1971 federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour.
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An annual income of $381,000 in 2026 is required to have the same purchasing power as a U.S. minimum-wage worker in 1971.
TOTAL BS
West Coast figures discussed an independent Pacific republic during the Civil War.
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During the American Civil War, political figures and residents of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory considered establishing an independent Pacific Republic separate from the United States.
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Cross-framework consolidation often requires IFRS-to-U.S.-GAAP conversion adjustments during reporting.
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Differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP in the recognition and measurement of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses can make consolidating an Ireland-based operation with a U.S.-based parent company more difficult.
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Foreign-operation amounts must be converted into the parent’s reporting currency.
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Consolidating an Ireland operation with a U.S. parent requires translating euro-denominated accounting records into U.S. dollars using appropriate currency translation methods.
HARDLY BS
Fauci’s closest documented $1 million was a 2021 prize, netting about $900,000.
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Anthony Fauci received $1,000,000 in compensation during the period when 1,000,000 people in the United States died from COVID-19.
MOSTLY BS
Trump’s documented social-media efforts involved regulation and private services, not global server control.
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Donald Trump proposed that the United States control the servers of every major social media platform and charge other countries a monthly "digital rent," with non-paying countries losing internet access.
TOTAL BS
In June 2026, about 105.8 million Americans were not in the labor force.
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More than 105 million Americans are not in the labor force and are not looking for work.
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U.S. golf courses applied about 1.63 million acre-feet of irrigation water in 2024.
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U.S. golf courses used about 531 billion gallons of irrigation water in 2024 (about 1.63 million acre-feet of applied water).
NOT BS
U.S. Central Command reported no damage to U.S. facilities in Bahrain.
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps destroyed a United States radar and a Patriot air-defense system in Bahrain.
TOTAL BS