A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine. The map outlines ...

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Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 2016, when the news and ...

The caption accompanying a map shared to X on July 7, 2024, supposedly represented a dire warning from scientists about climate change: "Scientists say this map represents the US in 30 years if we don ...

US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday (Jan 8) shared a distorted map of the United States which showed Canada as a part of America. Sharing the post on his official Truth Social platform, he ...

For years, a map of the US allegedly showing what will happen to the country if "we don't reverse climate change" has spread across social media. Snopes previously fact-checked this meme, which we ...

In June 2025, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a map of potential nuclear targets in the U.S. The map, created in 2002 by the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization ...