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Trump’s anti-birthright citizenship effort doesn’t apply only to children of those ‘here illegally’
Trump’s order said the government would no longer recognize U.S. citizenship if a person was born in the U.S. "when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and ...
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Claims about FEMA, North Carolina, and $2 billion earmarked for migrants originated on parody pages
But claims President Donald Trump has directed FEMA to disburse $2 billion in funds initially earmarked for migrants originated on a self-described satire site.
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What Trump's first week immigration orders mean in the short and long term
Trump signing the order on Day 1 is "testing the outer limits of executive branch power in the immigration sphere," Erin Corcoran, executive director of Notre Dame University’s Kroc Institute for ...
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Video doesn’t show roads to Mexico after Trump’s immigration crackdown. It was uploaded in December
The video originally was posted by TikTok user @lizsxxv on Dec. 21, 2024. Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20. The video appears to have been taken in Laredo, Texas, based on Google Maps verification. On ...
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Don’t fall for Facebook posts warning about purported, wanted serial killer Jeffrey Thomas
Some police departments have rebutted the wanted-serial-killer claims. On Jan. 21, the police department in Pembroke Pines, Florida, said in an Instagram post that it "was not reflective of any crime ...
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Trump’s birthright executive order doesn’t strip Kamala Harris’ US citizenship
President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship does not apply to former Vice President Kamala Harris. The executive order, if it survives legal challenges and is executed, ...
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Trump’s early health moves signal intent to erase Biden’s legacy. What’s next is unclear.
A flurry of executive orders and other actions Trump issued on his first day back in office included rescinding directives by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, that had promoted lowering ...
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
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No, the U.S. government hasn’t approved $1,000 stimulus checks upon Trump’s return to office
Since President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, Congress has not approved a $1,000 stimulus card program for all Americans. Soon after President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, social media users ...
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Fact-checking President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day speeches
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises. Speaking from ...
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Does getting pardoned equal a confession of guilt, as Dinesh D'Souza claimed?
Citing a portion of a news article, conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza argued in an Instagram post that people who accept presidential pardons admit guilt. Being pardoned doesn’t equal ...
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Claim Republicans support impeaching President Donald Trump came from fake news account
The Democratic-led House impeached Trump twice during his first term: first after he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden and his son, and again on a charge of ...