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NASA’s first new wind tunnel in 40 years will turn science fiction to fact
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Flying cars. Space tourism. Safe reentry for astronauts coming back from Mars. These technologies are still science fiction, but some won’t be for much longer, according to Charles “Mike” Fremaux, NASA Langley Research Center’s chief engineer for intelligent flight systems. To test these concepts, particularly in regard to public and military …
Fact check: Breaking down Mitch McConnell’s spin on the John Lewis voting rights bill
McConnell’s response, in which he expressed opposition to the bill, omitted a bunch of key context, got at least one fact wrong, and misleadingly described a top Democrat’s comments on the issue. McConnell’s office declined to comment on the record for this article. Before the court struck down the provision, the Voting Rights Act required …
Fact check: Breaking down 10 claims about the Democrats’ elections bill
Here is a fact check of some of the claims lawmakers made at the hearing; the Republicans present made a larger number of checkable assertions about what is in the bill, so we checked more claims from them than from the Democrats present. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas claimed: “Under this bill, there’s automatic …
Fact Check: Georgia’s military ballots are not missing
Around 12:30 pm ET on Friday, the President suggested something nefarious was happening in Georgia, where Biden was ahead by approximately 1,500 votes as of Friday at noon. The implication of Trump’s tweet is that “missing” military ballots might have been a contributing factor to Biden’s lead in the state. “Where are the missing military …
Fact check: Breaking down the barrage of false election claims from Trump and his allies
The President was no more factual on Thursday. As of 4 PM, Twitter had affixed a fact-check warning label to three of his tweets that day, making it nine labels since Wednesday. Trump’s allies also flooded the zone with so much misinformation that it was hard to know where a fact checker should begin. We …
Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope
The account did it again on Tuesday. In a Tuesday speech in Georgia, Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, quoted from an encyclical published by Pope Francis in early October. In that text, the Pope criticized “aggressive nationalism” and anti-immigrant populism, called for a “better kind of politics” that emphasizes love and urged politicians to ask themselves …
Fact check: Another Trump briefing, more Trump falsehoods on coronavirus and mail-in voting
“It’s been a total disaster. They have — they’re six weeks into it now, they have no clue what’s going on. And I mean I think I can say right here and now, I think you have to rerun that race because it’s a mess. Nobody knows what’s happening with the ballots and the lost …
Twitter Points Users To Fact Checks Of Trump Tweets For The First Time : NPR
Updated at 7:46 p.m. ET Twitter has placed a fact-checking warning on a tweet issued by President Trump in which he claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. Twitter’s move on Tuesday marks the first time the technology company has sanctioned Trump as criticism mounts about how the president has amplified misinformation to more …
Fact check: from coronavirus to Kim Jong Un, Trump makes at least 14 false claims in Fox News town hall
We counted at least 14 false claims in our first dive into the transcript, plus four claims that were lacking some important context. Trump claimed that, before Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden “didn’t have a job.” …
Violence Against Healthcare Workers Continues Despite Hospital Safety Law – NBC Bay Area
They treat us when we’re sick, but now medical workers say they fear for their own health and safety after a rash of assaults at California hospitals. Employees working in healthcare are four times more likely to experience workplace violence than other private employees according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A recent …