"Facts Matter" investigates complex issues based on the principles of traditional journalism: no spin, no favorites. We give you the facts—you decide the rest.
Latest episodes
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13 min
Have Kids? Don't Know What Career to Guide Them Toward? US Demand for Space Industry is Skyrocketing
On Aug. 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. By doing so, he established the United States Space Academy to recr…
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15 min
For First Time, US Confirmed Use of Laser Weapons in Field
For the first time in history, the U.S. military has confirmed the use of a directed-energy laser system that took out three suspected cartel drones.This was soon followed up by th…
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45 min
Did a Cold War Tick Experiment Help Spread Lyme Disease?
Recently, I was playing in the woods with my son when we decided to go the path least taken. Two roads diverged in the wood, and we took the one less traveled—the one that was over…
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37 min
Did a Cold War Tick Experiment Help Spread Lyme Disease?
Recently, I was playing in the woods with my son when we decided to go the path least taken. Two roads diverged in the wood, and we took the one less traveled—the one that was over…
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17 min
Alberta's Vote to Begin Formal Secession Process Scheduled for 2 Weeks From Now-Facts Matter
Right now, our friendly neighbors to the north (in the Canadian Province of Alberta) are in the process of breaking away from Canada.The first major milestone has already been achi…
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13 min
Synthetic Food Dyes Get Eliminated by Major Cereal Maker by End of 2026
If you happen to love cereal, then there is something that you should know. Recently, there have been some positive developments within the Make America Healthy Again movement’s ef…
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8 min
Elon Musk's Nashville Highway Tunneling Project Doubles in Size
The city of Nashville, the global home to country music, is anything but “boring.” That was until Elon Musk’s The Boring Company began to dig tunnels underneath it.The first of the…
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11 min
iPhone Owners Can Get Payout From Apple’s Settlement
Apple settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a cool $250 million.And it’s worth mentioning that over half of that mon…
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16 min
Cuba’s Greatest Weapon Isn’t Missiles, It’s Impressionable American Minds
A few months ago, when President Donald Trump began floating the idea of taking over Cuba using military force, many people were understandably surprised. Since then, however, the…
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28 min
Big Gold Moves: French Central Bank Moves 129 Tons of Gold out of US; Dutch Central Bank Moves 86 Tons
There are some big moves happening in the gold market. Last week, the Central Bank of the Netherlands confirmed that they moved 86 tons of gold out of North America—moving it to Lo…
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14 min
Anthropic Slapped With Lawsuit Over Alleged Theft of Over 10,000 Songs for AI Training
Anthropic recently settled a $1.5-billion civil suit over the illegal downloading of millions of books used to train its large language model. It was the single largest copyright i…
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14 min
Does Filming Yourself Doing Illegal Things for ‘Content’ Make Them Less Illegal?
Let’s delve into the history of the “prank video” format, and how it’s developed to where it is today, where TikTok stars are going into businesses pretending to work there in orde…
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18 min
The Looming Threat of a Chinese Humanoid Robot Flood into the US Market
Humanoid robots from China—are they taking over, or just falling over?Are they our cute companions? Or, are they watching us in our homes through secret backdoors left open by the…
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16 min
Fat From Cadavers Now Being Used for Cosmetic Fillers
How badly do you want that perfect beach body? Some are willing to get liposuction and have someone shuffle their own fat around. But how about getting one’s body enhanced by injec…
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15 min
AI Creates 16 Never-Before-Seen Real-World Viruses
Scientists in the U.S. recently announced that for the very first time, they were able to use AI to create viruses never before seen in nature. Don’t worry, though: these new virus…
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14 min
USPS: New Rules for Mail-In Ballots; US Issues Travel Alert for 3 Countries
Today, we do a round up of three stories. First, a former acting U.S. attorney was found dead in his office in a federal building in California. Second, the USPS just issued new ru…
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15 min
Over 30 Minnesota Water Systems Hit with 'Coordinated Cyberattack,' Forced to Go Offline
In just 48 hours, a coordinated cyberattack disrupted the digital controls of water systems across more than 30 Minnesota communities, forcing operators to switch to manual backup…
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22 min
CDC Data Shows Leprosy Cases Spiking in Florida, With a Surprising Cause
Leprosy appears to be not only spreading in central Florida, but according to the CDC, it might now be endemic to the region. Let’s explore why that is, as well as what it means fo…
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21 min
Apps Marketed to US Veterans Are Coming Equipped With Chinese and Russian Code
A first-of-its-kind study reveals that one out of eight apps marketed to U.S. military service members (and their families) contain foreign code—some from China and Russia—that cou…
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17 min
Internal Docs Discovered in Lawsuit Exposed Anthropic’s Mass Book Shredding Project
It turns out that Anthropic—the giant AI company behind the Claude chatbot—has been secretly destroying millions of books in the process of feeding them into the AI system. Slicing…