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Snopes→ UK Court Hearing for US Woman in Road Death Case Called Off
A court hearing next week for an American citizen who left Britain after being involved in a crash that killed a teenage motorcyclist has been called off.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: She Did Have 4 Legs, But Josephine Myrtle Corbin Is NOT The Woman Pictured
Did Josephine Myrtle Corbin have four legs, raise a family and die at 60? Yes, most of these facts about her in a post are fairly accurate -- she was a real person who lived from 1868 to 1928 and she died just a week before her 60th birth
Snopes→ Navy Captain Becomes 1st Woman to Command US Nuclear Carrier
The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt.
Snopes→ Did a Woman Carry a Lion Down the Street?
A bizarre video supposedly showing a woman carrying a lion down the street went viral in January 2022.
Snopes→ Did a Woman Breastfeed a Cat? Part 2
While there's still no photographic evidence of this event, we now have a viral reenactment of a woman breastfeeding a cat.
Snopes→ Sewell to Be 1st Woman, 3rd Black Person to Lead NYC Police
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police official, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the first woman to lead the nation’s largest police force.
Snopes→ US Woman Accused in High-Profile Road Crash to Face UK Trial
The Crown Prosecution Service said the case against Anne Sacoolas would be heard at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Jan 18.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: German Police Did NOT Detain Elderly Woman For Not Showing Her Vaccine Passport — She Refused To Show Her ID While Protesting
Did police in Germany detain an elderly woman because she could not present proof of vaccination? No, that's not true: Local police confirmed that an 80-year-old woman was detained in Göppingen, Germany on December 6, 2021, but not for t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 91-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Give Birth, But Carried A Calcified Fetus For 60 Years
Did a 91-year-old woman find out that she had been pregnant for 60 years when she visited the doctor? Yes and no: the story of the rare health condition of an elderly woman from La Boca, Chile is true, but it is presented in a misleading
Snopes→ Did a Woman Breastfeed a Cat on a Plane?
We don't have enough information to confirm this incident, but we can say that this udderly ridiculous-sounding story is plausible.
PolitiFact→ Bloggers – FBI search didn’t target woman because of her role in school board politics
The FBI targeted a woman and searched her home because she “protested local school board, elections.”
Snopes→ Did a Woman File for Divorce After Seeing This Photo?
We read through a 77-page slideshow article so our readers didn't have to.
Logically→ Climate change played no role in the worsening health conditions of an elderly Canadian woman
Although the woman had underlying conditions, a historic heat wave in Canada led to her physical health deteriorating further.
Snopes→ Was Woman Removed from Flight for Insisting on COVID-19 Vaccinations?
This staged and scripted video has been viewed millions of times.
Snopes→ ‘Woman Leaves House to Neighbor’ Ad Is Not a True Story
We clicked through 50 pages of fiction so our readers don't have to.
Truth or Fiction?→ Pierce Brosnan: ‘She Is in My Eyes the Most Beautiful Woman in the World …’
On October 21 2021, a virally popular Facebook post by the page “NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP!!!” attributed to Pierce Brosnan a saccharine, condescending commentary about his wife Keely Shay Smith, who was apparently unworthy of being named
Snopes→ Woman in Thailand High-Rise Cuts Rope Holding Painters
The woman is facing attempted murder and property destruction charges.
Snopes→ Meteorite Hits Canadian Woman’s Home
It was a 100 billion-to-one shot.
Snopes→ Did Seattle Woman Die from Rare Blood Clotting Condition After COVID Vax?
An obituary for Jessica Berg Wilson, who died after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, went viral online.
Full Fact→ Woman filling bags with petrol was not filmed in south London
A video posted on Twitter appears to show someone filling up plastic bags of petrol at a petrol station and putting them in the boot of a car. The accompanying tweet says it was filmed at an Esso forecourt in Tooting, south London. This follows r
Snopes→ Croatian Police Identify Woman Found with Memory Loss
Croatian police said they have established the identity of a woman who was found in a remote area on a northern Adriatic island with no recollection of who she is or where she came from.
Full Fact→ CCTV showing woman’s drink being spiked is a dramatisation
A Facebook post shows what appears to be CCTV footage of a woman having her drink spiked in a bar. The film shows two men target the woman. One distracts her while the other slips a substance into her glass. Subtitles on the video claim the
Logically→ Taliban flogging a woman in Afghanistan.
Articles have pointed out that the Taliban were flogging women as a punishment for disobeying their rules/laws or demanding their rights.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Woman Are NOT Fertile For Only ‘Roughly 24 Days A Year’
Are women fertile for roughly 24 days a year? No, that's misleading: The fertility window for women is approximately four to seven days a month, totaling 48 to 84 days a year, according to medical experts. Ovulation is usually one to two
Snopes→ Does Pic Show Italian Police Ticketing Woman for Wearing Bikini in 1950s?
The swimsuit caused a stir when it first emerged in 1946 and was banned from beaches in Italy during the 1950s.
Logically→ Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was attacked by a woman because of his policies on COVID-19.
The video is from 2015 when Prime Minister was attacked by a woman protesting against the European Central Bank.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Video Of Woman Confronted While Collecting Money In Wheelchair Is Anything Other Than Staged Skit
Does a widely shared video show a real instance of a woman in a wheelchair pretending to have lost her leg to collect money and then being confronted about her fakery? No, that's not true: The video shows several signs of being staged. Th
Logically→ A video shows Taliban militants shooting a woman dead in Afghanistan for stepping out of her house.
A 2015 video from Syria is falsely captioned as Taliban militants shooting a woman dead in Afghanistan in 2021.
Logically→ An old incident from Kabul is shared as the Taliban killing a woman after they took over Afghanistan in August 2021.
The lynching of a 27-year-old woman Farkhunda Malikzada in 2015 in Central Kabul is falsely shared as the Taliban's recent action.
Logically→ An old incident from Kabul is shared as the Taliban killing a woman after they took over Afghanistan in August 2021.
The lynching of a 27-year-old woman Farkhunda Malikzada in 2015 in Central Kabul is falsely shared as the Taliban's recent action.
Logically→ An old incident from Kabul is shared as the Taliban killing a woman after they took over Afghanistan in August 2021.
The lynching of a 27-year-old woman Farkhunda Malikzada in 2015 in Central Kabul is falsely shared as the Taliban's recent action.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Woman’s Execution Did NOT Just Happen In Afghanistan — It Was In Syria In 2015
Does this video show a Taliban killing in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021? No, that's not true: This footage of the public execution of a woman accused of adultery was identified in 2015 as having been carried out by Nusra Front jihadis
Snopes→ Woman Comes Face-To-Face with Snake in Australia Supermarket
The head of the 3-meter-long (10-foot-long) non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.
Full Fact→ Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work
An article from TCW Defending Freedom (formerly, The Conservative Woman) reports what it claims are “five key Covid truths that could have saved us from self-destruction.” It sources these to Dr Peter McCullough, a Texas-based cardiologist,
Snopes→ Does a Video Show Firefighters Catching a Suicidal Woman in Mid-Air?
The heroic exploits of two Latvian firefighters gained prominence online in August 2021.
Snopes→ Woman Using Gun’s Laser Sight to Play with Cat Shoots Friend
A Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat.
Snopes→ ‘Modern Family’ Medicine: Bowen, Sister Help Injured Woman
A woman who fainted and hit her head on a rock after stopping to rest in Utah's Arches National Park woke up to hear a familiar voice and wondered if she might be watching television.
Snopes→ Woman Convicted of Swapping Pebbles for Gems in London Heist
A woman who secretly swapped seven pebbles for $5.7 million worth of diamonds has been sent to prison for her role in the audacious heist at a luxury jewelry store.
Snopes→ Woman Unaware She Had $39M Lottery Ticket in Purse for Weeks
The mother of one had picked random numbers on the lottery ticket and doesn't plan to play again