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Featured on Snopes today: A bill about intersex kids in California made news this week, imprisoning librarians did too, as well as a story about law enforcement rounding up 1,700 runaway piglets.
Featured on Snopes today: The lowdown on the "$15,000 worth of pens" Nancy Pelosi supposedly used to sign the articles of impeachment, plus rumors that Poland has banned the building of mosques.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to lump the beginning of the Mueller investigation in with the impeachment timeline.
A look at some of the key differences between a courtroom trial and the impeachment trial that will play out in the coming days.
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens to the people involved, has been practiced by politicians for decades.
A routine review of content labeled satire.
What politicians want and what the law says are not necessarily congruent.
The case had bounced around the federal courts for five years and multiple trial dates were canceled.
The Base, a collective of hardcore neo-Nazis that operate as a paramilitary organization, has proclaimed war against minority communities within the United States and abroad, the FBI has said.
The authentication of the painting solved one of the art world's enduring mysteries.
Advocates for intersex people said the medical community has failed to regulate itself on performing surgeries that can have lasting, harmful effects.
House Bill 2044, which was aimed at events such as "Drag Queen Story Time" in public libraries, caused controversy upon its introduction in January 2020.
A passenger waiting for a flight at an Oregon airport needed a bit more screen space for his video game.
Technology unleashed baseball’s Analytics Era, and now it’s holding the sport prisoner.
Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz confirmed his role in a series of tweets saying he would “present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal.”
Iowa State Patrol troopers had to close the ramp at times as crews worked to capture and unload hundreds of pigs.
The National Institutes of Health says nearly 2% of Americans have the autoimmune disease, which causes hair loss on the scalp, face and sometimes on other areas of the body.
The son of writer J.R.R. Tolkien was closely associated with his father's work, including drawing the maps in the original trilogy.
Featured on Snopes today: Are Australia's wombats offering neighborly protection from the bushfires to fellow threatened animals?
There are many lands: some of them have magic, some do not, and some need it.
Drugging up and performing sex acts on dangerous reptiles is probably not an advisable means for getting one's kicks.
The Environmental Protection Agency will be allowing for potential new uses of asbestos, while limiting the scope of studies that assess its risk.
Aaron Hernandez's conviction could be vacated under the obscure legal doctrine of abatement ab initio, but that won't necessarily entitle his family to millions of dollars.
Rumors of the rapper's demise spread in December 2019 after posts on "prank" news websites.
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens to the people involved, has been practiced by politicians for decades.
Misinformation spread wildly as bushfires devastated Australia in late 2019 and early 2020.
A meme circulating on social media was posted amid impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump.
Conspiracy theorists outdid themselves in October 2019 in response to the Ukraine scandal that threatened Donald Trump's presidency with impeachment.
A routine review of content labeled satire.
A warning from "Glen Eagles" hospital about the deaths of women who sniffed poisoned perfume samples is an old hoax.
