snopes.com Update: 6 December 2014
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New Articles
- Did St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch run a charity that sold shirts to raise money for Darren Wilson?
- Did two of Pepsi's 1990 'Cool Cans' spell out the word 'S-E-X'?
- Did Sarah Palin tell Sean Hannity that Alaska has "all sorts of Eskimos and other foreigners?"
- Did Walmart donate $10,000 to the Darren Wilson Fund?
- Did a woman kill three shoppers at Walmart on Black Friday in order to get the last big-screen TV or game console?
- Did a protester hold up a sign saying "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store" in Ferguson, Missouri?
- Is President Obama's 16-year-old daughter Malia pregnant?
- Does a GoPro-captured video document a bear chasing a cyclist through the woods?
- Was a student forced to remove a pro-military wristband because it might offend Muslims?
- Whitney Hayek was missing from her home in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, but has since been found.
- Was Deandre Joshua murdered after testifying before a grand jury in Ferguson?
- Is Facebook reporting pictures of users with guns to the Department of Homeland Security?
- Is dog whisperer Cesar Millan dead?
- Was singer Jay Jon found dead shortly after releasing the song "C.O.P." on YouTube?
- Does a "Welcome to Idaho" sign warn potential criminals about gun owning citizens?
- Are claims made about Mike Brown's family in a viral image meme true?
- Celebrity death hoax: Singer Axl Rose was found dead in his West Hollywood home.
- Has Timberland's CEO said he doesn't want black people to wear their boots?
- Was a flying horse captured on video above Jeddah, Saudi Arabia?
- Did the Koch brothers donate a large sum of money to NPR and force the broadcaster to discontinue coverage of climate change?
- Did a man jump out of airplane without a parachute and survived by landing on a trampoline?
- Is your online service about to cancel the accounts of users who don't forward or repost a particular message?
- Did the CDC apologize because this year's flu vaccine doesn't work?
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Worth a Second Look
- Did a bank attempt to collect credit card service fees from a deceased customer?
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