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Search results for "An NTSB report reveals a firefighter heard a stop warning before a deadly LaGuardia runway crash"

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Bloggers stated on August 28, 2017 in a series of tweets:
Photo shows severe flooding at a Houston airport.
By Joshua Gillin• August 29, 2017
Instagram posts stated on August 14, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Anne Heche was murdered by the illuminati because she was working on a movie about Jeffrey Epstein.
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 16, 2022
Instagram posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video:
The U.S. Army helicopter in the Jan. 29 plane collision was the same model of helicopter in the 2020 Kobe Bryant crash.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• February 7, 2025
Instagram posts stated on December 14, 2024 in a video:
Video shows a drone crashed in New Jersey.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• December 17, 2024
Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:
You can't pour water on flames from an electric car battery because “water makes lithium burn."
By Yacob Reyes• July 30, 2022
TikTok posts stated on November 11, 2021 in a post:
Actor Macaulay Culkin died from a heroin overdose.
By Monique Curet• November 16, 2021
John Boehner stated on February 19, 2010 in a press release:
In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165."
By Robert Farley• February 19, 2010
Instagram posts stated on April 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Kobe Bryant was killed “as a setup to stop him from testifying.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 5, 2023
Megyn Kelly stated on May 13, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Kelly File":
The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."
By Jon Greenberg• May 18, 2015
Bill Johnson stated on July 05, 2011 in an online news story:
On opposition to earmarks
By Tom Feran• July 20, 2011
Tim Pawlenty stated on January 11, 2011 in his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation," the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 "because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s."
By Louis Jacobson• March 30, 2011
X posts stated on March 26, 2024 in an X post:
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blamed the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse on “racism.”
By Loreben Tuquero• March 27, 2024
Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2020 in a text post:
"ANTIFA is now carrying chain saws, and cutting down utility poles, and starting more fires."
By Daniel Funke• September 14, 2020
Facebook posts stated on August 03, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook.:
“We’re seeing two massive explosions on U.S. critical infrastructure in the past 24 hours that have caused power outages.”
By Madison Czopek• August 7, 2023
Instagram posts stated on February 19, 2025 in an Instagram post:
“Delta plane that crashed in Toronto operated by Endeavor Air with all-female flight crew.”
By Sofia Ahmed• February 21, 2025
Instagram posts stated on October 06, 2024 in an Instagram post:
FEMA “blocked a runway” at a South Carolina airport and “halted” hurricane relief flights.
By Jeff Cercone• October 7, 2024
Bloggers stated on October 02, 2017 in a fake news post:
A flight crew took a knee and stranded the New Orleans Saints on an airport runway.
By Emily Tanaka• October 3, 2017
Viral image stated on January 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Kobe Bryant tweeted, "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."  
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 27, 2020
Tom McCarey stated on June 06, 2016 in In a Penn Live editorial:
"Never mind that no red light camera, no speed camera, nor any radar gun has ever stopped one accident from occurring."
By Mark Dent• June 14, 2016
X posts stated on July 12, 2025 in an X post:
The Kerr County, Texas, sheriff “said he would apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family.”
By Maria Briceño• July 14, 2025

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Social media feeds are awash with Iran war misinformation. Here’s how to identify false imagery

By Loreben Tuquero• March 12, 2026

How misinformation about Kobe Bryant’s death spread online

By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke• January 28, 2020

Reports of 2 girls rescued from a tree fueled false hope after Texas storms. Here's how it spread.

By Angela Fu, Loreben Tuquero• July 7, 2025

What we know about opioids, declared by Trump as a public health emergency

By Tom Kertscher• October 26, 2017

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By W. Gardner Selby• May 4, 2016

Dog in overhead bin? Feds let airlines set pet travel policies

By W. Gardner Selby• March 14, 2018

Fact-check: Los Angeles fires fuel falsehoods, including by Trump, about water management

By Jeff Cercone, Caleb McCullough• January 10, 2025

March 16 shows to talk latest news on Ukraine, missing Malaysian plane

By Katie Sanders• March 14, 2014

What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about election fraud, QAnon and other conspiracy theories

By Daniel Funke• February 2, 2021

The stimulus is funding what?

By Robert Farley• February 19, 2010

Are red light cameras a ‘scam,’ as Marco Rubio says?

By Joshua Gillin, Amy Sherman• June 9, 2015

Here’s why Georgia’s Republican officials are confident in their presidential election results

By Bill McCarthy• January 5, 2021

Fact-checking Tim Pawlenty's 'Courage to Stand'

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 12, 2011

Social media posts are making claims about a Biden family tragedy. Here are the facts

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 4, 2020

Examining Jerry Brown’s veto of California wildfire legislation and the criticism of it

By Chris Nichols• November 16, 2018

Vietnam and Afghanistan: Different wars, similar endings?

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• August 17, 2021

Fact-checking Kamala Harris’ CNN town hall in Pennsylvania

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 24, 2024

Here’s what we know about LA fire department’s DEI efforts, which Republicans have attacked

By Grace Abels, Jeff Cercone• January 17, 2025

What the HBO QAnon documentary series revealed about the identity of ‘Q’

By Samantha Putterman• April 9, 2021