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TrueThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's acting director, Jim O'Neill, once said: "There are plenty of healthy, spare kidneys walking around unused."SnopesSep 3, 2025FalseLate-night talk show host Stephen Colbert announced a wildlife rescue program for endangered elephants in late August 2025.SnopesSep 3, 2025Can’t tellLate-night talk-show host Stephen Colbert signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a seven-episode series.SnopesSep 3, 2025TrueNetflix Co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings donated $2 million to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign.SnopesSep 3, 2025FalseThe White House released photos of U.S. President Donald Trump taken in 2019 claiming they were from Labor Day weekend in August 2025.SnopesSep 3, 2025TrueA video circulating over the 2025 Labor Day weekend authentically showed a bag being thrown out of a White House window.SnopesSep 3, 2025Can’t tellIn early September 2025, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Labor Day should be a celebration of "women who go through labor."SnopesSep 3, 2025MixedA police body-camera video authentically showed the arrest of 16-year-old Meijer supermarket employee James Denison — who lives with autism or other special needs and who faces food insecurity — after Joseph Kolacsky, a store manager at the Seven Hills, Ohio, store, documented Denison's repeated theft of discarded food, then reported him to law enforcement.SnopesSep 2, 2025FalseA YouTube video contained an authentic audio recording of celebrity Jim Carrey condemning the "world's deafening silence" regarding the suffering in Gaza due to the Israel-Hamas war.SnopesSep 2, 2025TrueThe CIA once ran a brothel to experiment with LSD, a hallucinogenic drug, on its unsuspecting patrons. It called the project "Operation Midnight Climax."SnopesSep 2, 2025FalsePresident Donald Trump’s “official schedule was suddenly suspended.”Said by X postsPolitiFactSep 2, 2025FalseThe U.S. Census included a citizenship question “for over 150 years” before the Obama administration.Said by James UthmeierPolitiFactSep 2, 2025MixedU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics show, “We have 1.6 million illegal aliens that have gone home voluntarily.”Said by Kristi NoemPolitiFactSep 2, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump scored 73 on an IQ test during his first year at New York Military Academy.SnopesSep 1, 2025MixedChemotherapy drugs to treat cancer were invented from mustard gas.SnopesSep 1, 2025Can’t tellLiz Cheney wrote a letter to the Democratic Party urging it to do more to fight the Trump administration’s “authoritarian machine.”SnopesSep 1, 2025TrueIn 2011, a North Carolina man robbed a bank for $1 so he could go to jail and receive the medical care he needed.SnopesSep 1, 2025TrueOn Aug. 25, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller called the Democratic Party a "domestic, extremist organization" on Fox News.SnopesAug 30, 2025MixedA July 2025 executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump aims to “institutionalize anyone disabled."SnopesAug 30, 2025Can’t tellA video authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump saying "trans people don't exist."SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseA disproportionately high number of U.S. mass shooters are transgender as compared with transgender people’s representation in the country's population.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseFormer NFL coach Joe Gibbs, who led the Washington Commanders, died in August 2025.SnopesAug 30, 2025TrueIn August 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) immunization chief, Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, posted a resignation letter denouncing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership of HHS and the CDC.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseA video authentically shows comedian Larry David on NBC's "Today" show reacting to the news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement in August 2025.SnopesAug 30, 2025