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Can Trump rename an ocean, as he's suggested?
"I was thinking of either the Atlantic or the Pacific," the president recently told a crowd of supporters at a Tennessee rally. "We call it 'Trump Ocean' or 'Ocean of the Americas,' something like that."
Does Trump have the authority to do that? Reporter Jack Izzo has the facts.
10 rumors we've investigated involving Pope Leo XIV
We looked back at our past coverage of the pope after news broke that a tumor was removed from his right lung.
Did Department of Energy remove building accessibility requirements for disabled people?
The rumor claimed the DOE was changing federal law to end the requirements.
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