Claim: A photo shared online in September 2024 authentically showed Sean "Diddy" Combs posing next to Barack Obama. Why no truth rating on this claim? While the available evidence suggests the photograph in question is very likely authentic, Snopes has not yet been able to verify directly with the parties involved. We will update this fact check should more evidence become available. 

 Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hosted a town hall Thursday in Springfield, Ohio, a city that's been thrust into the 2024 race, calling for an open conversation on the migrant debate dividing the country. "We've been told, mostly by the media, to shut up, sit down, do as you're told, to sweep it under the rug, or else you're guilty of some sin," Ramaswamy began the town hall Thursday evening. "And I just think that the truth in this country is we don'...

The Uncommitted National Movement, a coalition of antiwar activists attempting to push the Democratic Party to cut off arms to Israel and secure a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, said on Thursday it would not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris while encouraging its followers not to vote for former President Donald Trump nor third-party candidates in key swing states. Trump will “accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing,” the group said in ...

A Kentucky sheriff faces murder charges in connection with the deadly shooting of a local judge in his chambers on Thursday afternoon. Authorities say Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, shot District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, on Thursday afternoon after an argument inside the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Here's what to know about the shooting.

The Israeli military said it carried out a "targeted strike" in Beirut on Friday, as social media video showed smoke rising from the site of an apparent attack in the Lebanese capital. "At this moment, there are no changes in the Home Front Command defensive guidelines," the Israel Defence Forces said in a statement. The White House earlier warned both Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group against "escalation of any kind" following this week's synchronized pager and...

America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday for allegedly concealing government documents in relation to the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. AFL alleges that the DHS and the USSS blocked requests to obtain information about staffing shortages, employment standards and communications between department officials that related to the assassination...

Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a lifelong Democrat, supports stricter gun laws and contributes to Sandy Hook Promise, a gun-violence-prevention nonprofit.  But this summer, the liquor store clerk in Iowa City, Iowa, for the first time in his life bought a gun. Apprehension about street crime, armed right-wing extremists, and “whatever else the world could possibly throw at us,” drove his decision. “Domestic politics have grown increasingly acrimonious,” says Ciemnoczolowski, 43.

Donald Trump became the first president to make a transaction using bitcoin during a stop at a local bar before heading to his New York rally. PubKey co-owner Thomas Pacchia described his encounter with the former president as "surreal," telling "The Bottom Line" that he’s still "processing" Trump’s crypto transaction on Thursday. "It was really cool. It was a bitcoin transaction. It was surreal, we're still processing, I would say. He was incredibly kind and generous with his time. He wanted...

At least 32 people, including two children, were killed and thousands more injured, many seriously, after communication devices, some used by the armed group Hezbollah, dramatically exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the latest round of blasts on Wednesday, exploding walkie-talkies killed 20 and injured at least 450 people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The explosions occurred in the vicinity of a large crowd that had gathered for the funerals of four...

Gov. Henry McMaster will decide whether to commute Freddie Eugene Owens’s sentence just minutes before the execution is scheduled to begin. Undated photo of Freddie Eugene Owens. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Corrections Owens was convicted in 1999 of the murder of Irene Graves during a robbery of a Speedway convenience store in 1997. He filed motions to stay the execution on Aug. 30 and Sept. 5, but the court denied the motions in a Sept. 12 order. Owens then submitted an “...