Snopes works hard to get to the bottom of every claim it investigates. These rumors took more time than most in 2025.

In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" tunes spread online. Its ...

The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed by at least 1878.

A 2020 email from a federal prosecutor, released by the Department of Justice, said Trump flew on the sex offender's jet "at ...

The correspondence in question is present in the Department of Justice's files on Epstein, but its authenticity is another ...

A document framed as a new, "unredacted" revelation actually points to an allegation in a 2020 civil complaint.

The court document was part of a batch the U.S. Department of Justice published in December 2025 related to the Jeffrey ...

Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape long before the soft drink ...

In December 2025, social media posts on sites like Facebook claimed that the singer John Legend announced he would pull his ...

For years, Snopes has covered the origins and myths attached to classic holiday songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ...

There was no proof the DOJ redacted the document after posting it. In fact, there was a copy of it on the DOJ website that ...

Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize its oil industry in 2007 did ...