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The alleged letter said Trump wanted the Nobel Peace Prize "the way a child wants a thing in a shop window."

The site for the alleged project is home to endangered North Atlantic right whales.

In 2024, hundreds of paper ballots burned overnight in ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington. According to the FBI, someone placed improvised incendiary devices in the boxes.

Fast forward to this summer, and Los Angeles officials reported some mail-in ballots were fire-damaged inside a ballot drop box days before the state's primary elections.

While those incidents actually happened, false rumors about ballot burning often circulate around elections to stoke fears of vote tampering.

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