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Brazil revives plan to pave highway through Amazon Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest.

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What happened

Brazil revives plan to pave highway through Amazon Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: World Series champion John Smoltz.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “World Series champion John Smoltz”
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The claim is explicitly confirmed by a source from 'Focus on the Family' stating John Smoltz is a World Series champion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1991 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1991 season. The 88th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_Series
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 World Series (branded as the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One) was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2025 season. The 121st edition of the World Series, it wa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1988 to 2009, all but the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smoltz
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Claim 2: “Smoltz, 59”
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Wikipedia and other sources state John Smoltz was born on May 15, 1967. As of the current date (2026, as indicated by the live evidence dates), he would be 58 or 59 years old. Specifically, May 15, 1967 to May 2026 makes him 59.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Eas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Big Three was a trio of Major League Baseball starting pitchers for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2002 which consisted of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. The Big Three combined to win…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(Atlanta_Braves)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1988 to 2009, all but the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smoltz
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Claim 3: “This Vanguard ETF... offers the same returns as the S&P 500 index.”
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While the evidence confirms the existence of the Vanguard Group and the S&P 500 index, none of the provided sources explicitly state that a specific Vanguard ETF offers the same returns as the S&P 500 index.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P SmallCap 600 (S&P 600) stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the "S&P 600", the ind…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_600_companies
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Vanguard Group, Inc. is an American registered investment adviser founded on May 1, 1975, and based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with approximately $12 trillion in global assets under management as o…
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Claim 4: “In early 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic quietened daily life around the world, scientists noticed something unusual.”
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Multiple sources confirm that scientists observed unusual nature patterns (e.g., elk, humpback whales, coral reefs, and hedgehogs) during the early 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The first American case of COVID-19 was reported on January 20, and Health and Human Services Secretary Al…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in 39,060,446 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 168,207 deaths. The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 ca…
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Claim 5: “Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest.”
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Two independent news sources (DW and another web search result) both report that Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway (BR-319) through the center of the Amazon rainforest.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Amazon River (UK: , US: ; Portuguese: rio Amazonas, Spanish: río Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle, Amazonia, or simply the Amazon, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South Americ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, represe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra…
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