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TrueA Florida man attempted to cross the Atlantic in a watercraft resembling a hamster wheel and was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard.SnopesNov 17, 2025FalseVideo shows President Donald Trump patting President Bill Clinton’s crotch.Said by TikTok postsPolitiFactNov 17, 2025FalseAn image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump kissing a young girl.SnopesNov 16, 2025TrueThe founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company, Milton Hershey, founded a boarding school for orphaned boys.SnopesNov 16, 2025TrueRock musician Jack White responded to the White House's criticism of him with a statement calling the administration "petty and pathetic and thin skinned."SnopesNov 16, 2025Can’t tellThe Democratic Party attempted to silence U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., in a foiled "deep state assassination plot" in November 2025.SnopesNov 15, 2025FalseIn November 2025, a 91-year-old woman was arrested for stealing her husband's heart medication from a pharmacy because they could no longer afford it.SnopesNov 15, 2025FalseA video authentically shows a Russian language-speaking man in a boat rescuing a bear cub clinging to a drifting tree trunk.SnopesNov 15, 2025TrueIn November 2025, the U.S. Senate cut food safety regulations in a funding bill to reopen the government.SnopesNov 15, 2025TrueMark Epstein, brother of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, once sent his brother an email that suggested he ask former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon “if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.”SnopesNov 15, 2025MixedAfter the U.S. House of Representatives released a batch of emails and documents related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in November 2025, conservative influencer Megyn Kelly said Epstein was not really a pedophile because he liked 15-year-olds, not 5-year-olds.SnopesNov 15, 2025FalseU.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., died shortly after falling down on Nov. 13, 2025.SnopesNov 15, 2025Can’t tellIn November 2025, U.S. President Trump asked the Department of Transportation to introduce 15-year car loans.SnopesNov 14, 2025TrueImages authentically show dogs with blue fur near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.SnopesNov 14, 2025FalsePrivate jets make up 12% of total American air traffic as of November 2025.SnopesNov 14, 2025FalseIn a 2014 email to former White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, Jeffrey Epstein offered girls’ for sexual services to billionaire Peter Thiel, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Emirati and Qatari officials, and others.SnopesNov 14, 2025TrueTruth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform, features an artificial-intelligence chatbot named Truth Search AI that provides answers disputing his false and misleading claims on numerous subjects.SnopesNov 14, 2025FalseWalmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactNov 14, 2025False“Evidence suggests that 1 in 25 women who consume (abortion) pills are hospitalized.”Said by James UthmeierPolitiFactNov 14, 2025False“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactNov 14, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was a "total creep" and said, "The dog didn't bark because the dog didn't have time! Too busy making the country great, building towers, eating tremendous steaks."SnopesNov 14, 2025Can’t tellIn mid-November 2025, White House lawyers were concerned that Reps. Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert were preparing to release recordings of phone calls with U.S. President Donald Trump in which he asked the representatives to "reverse their votes on releasing the Epstein files" and he "begged, bribed, threatened and cried."SnopesNov 14, 2025Can’t tellWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said about emails from the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly mentioned the U.S. president, “Jeffrey Epstein was talking about a different Donald Trump.”SnopesNov 14, 2025TrueSenate Republicans added an amendment to the continuing resolution passed in the Senate in November 2025 allowing them to sue the government for $500,000 over the investigations into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.SnopesNov 13, 2025