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Altered Video: A video shows Sen. Dianne Feinstein returning to the U.S. Capitol in a hearse on Wednesday followinghertwo-and-a-half-month absence due to illness. THE FACTS:The89-year-old California Democrat, who wasbriefly hospitalizedwith shingles in early March,returned to the Senatefor an afternoon vote on Wednesday.Social media users began spreading the doctored clip online in the hours that followed. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

False: CNN cut short its primetime town hall with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. CNN’sWednesday night town hallwith the former presidentwrapped upat 9:09 p.m. EST—69 minutes after it began at its scheduled time of 8 p.m. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

False: Video shows Fox News host Sean Hannity saying an impostor is pretending to be President Joe Biden. Sean Hannity was discussing President Joe Biden’s cognitive health; he wasn’t suggesting the president has been replaced by an impostor. (Source: PolitiFact)

True: As Trump-era public health order Title 42 expired on May 11, 2023, the Biden administration implemented another restrictive policy pertaining to asylum-seekers. Similar to a Trump-era rule, this one disqualifies migrants from U.S. protection if they fail to seek refuge in a third country, like Mexico, before crossing the U.S. southern border. About this rating On May 11, 2023, Title 42, a controversial pandemic-related immigration policy implemented in 2020 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, was set to expire. In turn, President Joe Biden was set to implement a new set of immigration restrictions that itself was con (Source: Snopes)