President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence about ...
We are fact-checking Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The hearing is to review the State Department’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, but ...
In 2022, Abdul El-Sayed gave a speech at an awards banquet for the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Oklahoma chapter. He spoke about the state’s 2010 ban on Shariah. He did not call for Shariah ...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Florida Republicans billed their party’s June 27 gathering in South Florida as the “Sunshine State Showdown.” But for U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the event’s headliner and GOP ...
President Donald Trump delivered a rare primetime address about an issue that has consumed him for years — the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. In his nearly 30-minute speech, ...
The stock market has gone up during President Donald Trump’s second term, but his $30,000 figure for average 401(k) gains is not supported. Fidelity Investments data shows that during the majority of ...
With average nationwide gasoline prices above $4.50 a gallon, politicians are revisiting a perennial idea to ease high pump prices: suspending the federal gasoline tax. President Donald Trump said he ...
Within two hours of declaring a ceasefire in the Iran war, President Donald Trump alleged that CNN knowingly published false information. Trump said CNN reported a “fake” statement from Iran and U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that partisan gerrymandering claims are "political" questions that federal courts can’t answer. The court said "excessive" gerrymandering was "incompatible with ...
A rare cross-party, pre-primary U.S. Senate debate unfolded June 16 in Massachusetts, with Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and Republican trial attorney John Deaton making their case to voters as ...
We found no record showing that former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers worked for pharmaceutical companies. He was never a registered lobbyist, and there’s no proof he received $14 million to lobby for the ...
Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines continues to spread on Facebook and other social media, with help from public figures like Fox News host Tucker Carlson. PolitiFact has fact-checked online ...