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Vance-Musk clip, NASA astronaut & Dawn Staley

Plus: Bean soup has been on daily menu of US Senate dining room since 1903

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Izz LaMagdeleine
March 25, 2025

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A white man wearing a red hat that says TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING is pictured next to a white man wearing a blue suit. They both look vaguely displeased.

No evidence clip of Vance criticizing Musk is authentic

On Sunday, an audio clip circulated online in which Vice President JD Vance appeared to criticize Elon Musk. Social media users posted the clip across several different platforms, including YouTube, X Instagram and Reddit.

However, Vance's communications director, William Martin, said on X that the audio was "100% fake and most certainly not the Vice President." The origins of the audio were unclear, but several artificial intelligence detectors said the audio was likely not authentic. As such, we found the video was fake. Snopes reporter Laerke Christensen has the details.

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10 rumors about Trump's stated wishes to expand the US

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.

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DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one

In the process of purging its websites of DEI references, the Pentagon removed articles about the Holocaust.

An woman of Indian and Slovenian heritage appears in two different images. On the left, she is wearing a white astronaut suit and her hair is grey. On the right, the same woman has dark brown hair and is wearing a blue shirt with various logos on it.

Photos don't show NASA astronaut returned to Earth with dark hair despite it being gray in space

Sunita "Suni" Williams had an unexpectedly long stay at the International Space Station after her capsule malfunctioned.

A white man wearing a blue suit is pictured next to a Black woman wearing a green top and several different bracelets.

No, Musk didn't offer Dawn Staley $10M

Some social media posts claimed the University of South Carolina Gamecocks coach refused Musk's alleged offer.

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A soup with potatoes, herbs and broth is shown. A spoon lies next to it.

Bean soup has been on daily menu of US Senate dining room since 1903

One account attributes a supposed bean soup mandate to a Minnesota senator who expressed his fondness for it more than a century ago.