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Does Project 2025 call for privatizing TSA?
A rumor spread online that Project 2025 — conservative nonprofit The Heritage Foundation's blueprint for reshaping the federal government — aimed to privatize the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
Reporter Laerke Christensen reviewed Project 2025's text to verify the claim.
Did Republican Sen. John Kennedy say Trump thwarted deal with Democrats to end DHS shutdown?
The revelation came during the second month of a partial government shutdown that saw major delays at airports.
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Does this photo show 2 young ICE agents at LaGuardia Airport?
Social media users debated whether AI had a role in the creation of an image showing two "teenage-looking" males wearing ICE agent uniforms.
Did Walmart heiress Christy Walton take out anti-ICE ad in NYT?
Walton's net worth is $23.5 billion, according to Forbes.
Is 50 Cent being boycotted over comment about pro-LGBTQ+ cartoons? Here's the truth
A nearly identical claim recently targeted actor Kurt Russell.
Staff pick
Every patient on ventilators at Cuban hospital didn't die due to blackout. We have the proof
As a de facto U.S. oil blockade plunged Cuba into darkness with multiple nationwide blackouts, a rumor spread online that "every single patient" on ventilators at a major Havana hospital died after the electricity shut off on Saturday.
The claim's false. Reporter Taija PerryCook unpacked how the rumor spread online — and how we know it's not true.
