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Wed Apr 10 2024

No evidence Biden agreed to resign if he fails cognitive test | Fact check

President Joe Biden walks to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, March 19, 2024. Biden travels to Nevada, Arizona and Texas on a three-day campaign trip.

There is no evidence Biden "consented" to a cognitive test and agreed to resign if he fails, as the post claims.

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Partial eclipse over the Washington Monument is seen on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Livestream footage, photos prove 2024 eclipse was real | Fact check

There is abundant evidence that the solar eclipse was real, including livestream footage, photos and tens of millions of spectators.

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The remains of the Francis Scott bridge is visible from the Maryland Transportation Authority Police Headquarters the morning before President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the collapse of the bridge at the Maryland Transportation Authority Police Headquarters. The bridge collapsed on March 26 after a massive cargo ship rammed into it, causing the structure to crumble into the Patapsco River and kill six workers who were patching potholes.

No, Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse was not an attack | Fact check

Contrary to online claims, authorities said there is no evidence the cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge was an attack.

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Former President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters outside the clubhouse of his Trump National Golf Club on June 13,2023 in Bedminster, NJ, hours after he was arraigned in Miami.

No, Trump Bedminster golf club wasn't epicenter of earthquake | Fact check

The United States Geological Survey determined the epicenter of the April 5 earthquake to be more than 3 miles from Trump National Golf Club.

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The three sounding rockets can be in this photo shortly after the pictured support team successfully assembled them. NASA is launching the rockets April 8 during the solar eclipse to study how the sudden drop in sunlight affects our upper atmosphere.

NASA will use three rockets to study atmosphere during eclipse | Fact check

NASA plans to launch rockets during the eclipse to study the upper atmosphere. But it's not targeting 'three moons,' as a Facebook video claims.

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'Sex magic rituals' and hazmat teams? 2024 solar eclipse myths debunked

A roundup of fact-checks about the April 8 total solar eclipse from the USA TODAY Fact-Check Team.

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October 8, 2023 : Mark Wahlberg attends Game One of the 2023 WNBA Playoffs finals between the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Claim about 'non-woke' film studio started as satire | Fact check

There's no evidence the two actors co-founded a production studio. The claim originated on a satirical website.

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A piece of Good Meat's cultivated chicken is displayed at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023, in Alameda, California. Back in June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) authorized two California-based companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, to sell chicken grown from cells in a lab. Cell-cultivated or lab-grown meat is made by feeding nutrients to animal cells in stainless steel tanks.

Photo in viral Facebook post shows typical chicken | Fact check

While two companies were approved to manufacture lab-grown chicken products, experts said the products are only available in select restaurants.

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Screenshot of interactive map that shows some of the larger cities in each of the 13 states on the 2024 eclipse's path of totality and how the duration of totality will vary along the path.

Totality path for eclipse covers 2 towns named Nineveh, not 7 | Fact check

This attempt to link the eclipse to biblical locations whiffs on the details.

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2012: The "God Particle" Is (Probably) Discovered     • Date: July 4     • Location: Near Geneva Nearly 600 feet below the France-Switzerland border at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Facility, an international team of scientists discovers a new particle widely believed to be the elusive Higgs boson, known as the "God Particle," which is thought to be a fundamental component of the universe. Higgs boson has been an important element of particle physics theory for decades, but until 2012 there had been no physical evidence to support its existence. ALSO READ: Most Important Civil Rights Leaders of the 20th Century

CERN will not (and cannot) open a portal during eclipse | Fact check

CERN's equipment began operating in March, well before the eclipse, and the technology is nowhere near strong enough to open a portal or a black hole.

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