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Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
A man arrested in Dublin's Connolly Station for carrying a firearm was a foreign national
Publisher’s rating: The man who was arrested for carrying a firearm is an Irish citizen
Photo shows Chris Wallace and Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s private island.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“Republican Matt Gaetz has had numerous DUIs and his dad got him off each time."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
"We can specifically and demonstrably now show that there are 17,000 people unjustly incarcerated in America."
Publisher’s rating: Needs context
An image shows the social media profile of the accused suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting.
Publisher’s rating: False
In Alabama, "if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
Quotes Rep. Kevin McCarthy as saying "there are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
There were two shooters in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
Publisher’s rating: False
Related reporting about Nevada’s most notorious crimes identifies the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting and says that “64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock began firing” at an outdoor Jason Aldean concert attended by 22,000 people. This directly concerns the event in the claim and identifies Paddock as a shooter. But the supplied passage does not say whether Paddock acted alone, mention a second shooter, or describe any investigation into the number of shooters. It therefore offers some relevant identification of the event and a shooter, but this excerpt alone does not establish that there were not two shooters.
Former President Donald Trump said “any indictment of me is an indictment of you.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Clarín ha tuiteado que hallan el cuerpo sin vida del empleado de la funeraria que filtró la foto de Maradona muerto
Publisher’s rating: Falso
“(Amy Klobuchar) did prosecute a black teenager who was sentenced to life in prison, despite what are now serious doubts about the evidence.”
Publisher’s rating: AP report raises concerns
250,000 girls in the United Kingdom were raped between 2010 and 2014 during the so-called 'grooming gang' scandal
Publisher’s rating: There is no basis for these figures; the claim was amplified by Malcolm Pearson, a UK peer, but is based on an invalid multiplication of figures from one location in the UK.
President Donald Trump was the first to “acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.”
Publisher’s rating: False
El diario.es ha tuiteado que el PSOE denuncia a Alvise Perez por injurias, calumnias e incitación al odio.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Scores of politicians and others are on a “list” of sex cases from newly unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell court documents.
Publisher’s rating: False
A photo shows ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin wearing a “Make Whites Great Again Hat.”
Publisher’s rating: False
On June 7, 2011, Kamala Harris was involved in a San Francisco hit-and-run crash that injured a woman named Alicia Brown.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire