snopes.com Update: 8 November 2014
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New Articles
- Does the 2015 Medicare handbook deliberately omit rates so they will remain secret until the midterm elections are over?
- Is a list of David Letterman's 'Top 10 Reasons to Vote Democrat' genuine?
- Did health officials in Africa admit that a factory worker with Ebola contaminated a large batch of chocolate?
- Is there an established link between root canals and cancer?
- Are schools in Florida distributing satanic coloring books to children?
- Did former Lockheed Martin engineer Boyd Bushman provide proof of alien life on his deathbed?
- A round-up of all the popular Ebola-related rumors currently circulating online.
- A round-up of tainted candy news reports from Halloween 2014.
- Was a baby born in India with two separate minds enclosed in one head?
- The tale of a machine-shop worker who tore his scrotum in a piece of machinery and then stapled it back together.
- Is a U.S. company hiring mercenaries at a salary of $500,000 per year to kill ISIS members?
- Brittany Maynard, 29, took her life on 1 November 2014 following a diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer.
- Did Johnny Carson make a risque remark to a starlet who appeared on the Tonight Show with a cat on her lap?
- Did comedian Gabriel Iglesias pass away?
- Did President Obama slam stay at home moms in a recent speech?
- Did Doritos factory workers test positive for Ebola?
- Was a toddler ejected from a roller coaster after his mother sneaked him onto the ride?
- Did Jaden Smith say that he was going to remove his penis on his 18th birthday?
- Will pouring Coca-Cola onto a piece of raw pork cause worms to come crawling out of the meat?
- Did President Obama hit insurance companies with a gag order, preventing them from disclosing 2015 insurance rates until after the 2014 midterm elections?
- Was a fanged deer spotted in Afghanistan?
- Did Starbucks team up with Monsanto to sue Vermont over a GMO labeling law?
- The Republican Party of Virginia claimed that poorly calibrated voting machines favored a Democrat candidate.
- Did Danai Gurira, who portrays Michonne on The Walking Dead, contract Ebola while filming on location in Africa?
- Did Michelle Obama give voters permission to eat fried chicken after they voted?
- Have spider eggs used to stuff Beanie Babies started hatching?
- New Jersey diners were frustrated to learn the bottle of wine they ordered cost $3,750.00, not $37.50.
- A man was caught cheating on a drug test when urinalysis revealed that he was pregnant.
- Was a mentally ill man named Kaldrick Donald unnecessarily shot and killed by a police officer after his mother called 911 because he wouldn't take his medication?
- Does a Common Core worksheet for fourth graders feature a highly inappropriate exercise on marital infidelity?
- Will a new Discovery Channel special show a man being eaten alive by a snake?
- Did the Disney Junior show Doc McStuffins portray characters using curse words and implied profanity?
- Is a racially provocative South Carolina exit poll for real?
- A New York City Pastor fell for a satirical story about Starbucks using semen in its drinks.
- Is California building a $587 million high-speed rail link to Hawaii?
- Is Dr. Ben Carson running for president in 2016?
- Social media post claims disabled students were rudely refused entry to a Bath & Body Works store.
- Don't forget to visit our Daily Snopes page for a collection of odd news stories from around the world!
Worth a Second Look
- Is Timberland owned by the Ku Klux Klan, a situation lamented in a poem by Maya Angelou?
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