Lauren Giella

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Fact Check: Is Hasbro replacing Mr. Potato Head with gender-neutral toy?

As the House passed the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, the conversation about gender continued online as Hasbro toy company announced a change to its classic toy. In a press release Thursday, Hasbro announced it was renaming the Mr. Potato Head brand Potato Head to "better reflect the full line" of potato toy products. The news coverage that followed resulted in some confusion online. Reports that "Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister" led some to claim that the co
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Fact Check: Does Heidi Cruz's employer control Texas energy utilities?

President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Texas on Saturday and ordered federal assistance to the state as thousands of people are still without power and nearly half of Texans are dealing with undrinkable water, broken pipes and offline treatment plants, according to CNN. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and family faced criticism over their trip to Cancun amid the power failure in the state. Now some people have turned their attention toward Cruz's wife, Heidi. Heidi Cruz, who
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Fact Check: Is the Pentagon spending $15M a year to kill brown tree snakes on Guam?

The Western Pacific island of Guam was trending on Twitter after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) referred to the U.S territory as a foreign land, like China and Russia, in a video. The island was a major U.S. Naval and Air Force base during World War II, and the Guam Organic Act of 1950 made Guam an unincorporated territory of the United States, transferring jurisdiction from the U.S. Navy to the Department of the Interior (DOI). Anyone born in Guam is automatically a U.S. citize