Did Pope Francis cancel the Bible and did he propose replacing it with a new book possibly named "Biblia 2000"? No, that did not happen. Rumors about this are false,... [Read the full story]

Did a Federal judge named Earl Manuel Mariano just declare all evidence seized by the FBI at Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's New York office to be invalid because of some... [Read the full story]

Was Jason Jones, an 11-year-old African American boy arrested in a Montgomery, Alabama Walmart for yodeling? No, that did not happen, it is a fake story pushed by a known... [Read the full story]

Was Malia Obama suspended from Harvard after a video of her making a racist speech about "A World Without Whites" went viral? No, that's total nonsense, it did not happen.... [Read the full story]

Did a muslim principal named Muhammad Al-Salad force a halal menu on students in Bluefield, West Virginia? More specifically at Pratchett-Kline elementary school? No, that was a fake meme published... [Read the full story]

Was ISIS (aka the Islamic State) invited to enter the Eurovision song contest this year? No, that's totally not true. A false story that made this claim originated on a... [Read the full story]

Readers of Lead Stories know we've been following the work of Christopher Blair (featured in the Boston Globe today by coincidence) for quite some time now. For those of you... [Read the full story]

Did Malia Obama really say "White people will be blended out by the time I'm 30" during a midterm speech exam? Of course not: that is a fake quote which... [Read the full story]

Is a post-Brexit remake of the iconic British show Fawlty Towers in the works and does it star an idiot English waiter named Manny? No, the rumors about a remake... [Read the full story]

Did Dr. Timothy Cunningham, a CDC doctor whose body was found in the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta last tuesday, "expose" that this year's flu shot actually caused a flu epidemic?... [Read the full story]