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MixedOn Jan. 21, 2024, a 22-year-old Wisconsin man died from a severe asthma attack days after he was unable to purchase his regular inhaler due to a sudden price hike and opted to pay his rent instead.SnopesJan 27, 2026FalseSix images circulating online, depicting snow mounds burying apartment buildings, authentically showed the effects of snow in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in January 2026.SnopesJan 27, 2026MixedTom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump's "border czar," served as former President Barack Obama's "ICE chief," where he was honored for large numbers of deportations.SnopesJan 27, 2026TrueA video recorded in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026, shows a federal immigration officer searching 37-year-old Alex Pretti's body and asking "Where's the gun?" after Pretti's fatal shooting, then confirming with another officer that someone already had removed a gun from Pretti's possession.SnopesJan 27, 2026FalseAn image shows Alex Pretti holding a gun, not a phone, while pinned by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.Said by X postsPolitiFactJan 27, 2026False“You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.”Said by Kash PatelPolitiFactJan 27, 2026FalseA screenshot shows a Truth Social post made by U.S. President Donald Trump after Customs and Border Protection agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January 2026, in which Trump said "ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS."SnopesJan 26, 2026FalseA July 2025 video authentically depicted a real hostage situation unfolding in broad daylight in which agents dressed in black shot the apparent criminal.SnopesJan 26, 2026FalseU.S. President Donald Trump once said the U.S. and Italy have been allies since ancient Rome.SnopesJan 26, 2026FalseFor years, a time-traveling man in a white mask authentically filmed himself walking around deserted locations, particularly in France, stuck in the year 2055.SnopesJan 26, 2026MixedSocial media posts authentically told the June 1951 story of a man jumping into the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to save his dog and showed a photo depicting the aftermath of the rescue.SnopesJan 26, 2026FalseDonald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Only criminals carry guns on our streets, we need law and order.”Said by Social MediaPolitiFactJan 26, 2026FalseEvan Kilgore is one of the Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.Said by Social MediaPolitiFactJan 26, 2026FalseProtesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactJan 26, 2026FalseTrees can explode if temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.Said by Social MediaPolitiFactJan 26, 2026FalseIn January 2026, former special counsel Jack Smith unexpectedly released all of his files on U.S. President Donald Trump by publicly uploading them.SnopesJan 25, 2026TrueThe United States purchased land from Denmark in 1917, which included Little St. James, the private island later owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and nicknamed "Epstein island."SnopesJan 25, 2026Can’t tellU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted to social media, "Dear Oprah, Yes, you were overeating! For years! And it wasn't some mystical 'obesity gene' puppeteering your fork. It was your choices."SnopesJan 24, 2026FalsePhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts established the Renee Good Hope Scholarship Fund — in honor of the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January 2026 —and contributed $300,000.SnopesJan 24, 2026Can’t tellU.S. Vice President JD Vance said: "If Canada really is as independent from the U.S. as they claim they'd have their own currency. And anthem. And flag."SnopesJan 23, 2026TruePhotos authentically showed bruising on U.S. President Donald Trump's left hand while he was attending the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2026.SnopesJan 23, 2026TrueAbout 130,000 people without legal immigration status reside in Minnesota, as opposed to 2.1 million in Texas and 1.6 million in Florida.SnopesJan 23, 2026MixedAs of late 2025, NASA had confirmed the existence of a temporary second moon that would remain in orbit next to Earth until 2083.SnopesJan 23, 2026FalseA series of photos shared online in January 2026 authentically showed Victoria Beckham dancing inappropriately during her son Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding to Nicola Peltz.SnopesJan 23, 2026