Latest Fact Checks By Conor Amendola

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Marijuana plant in Washington County, New York, 5-12-2023

Yes, the federal government still classifies marijuana as more worrisome than fentanyl, cocaine

By Conor Amendola , Brooke Johnpier
February 20, 2024
“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”
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Nassau County Courthouse

Did a printer error in Nassau County, N.Y., turn every registered voter Democratic?

By Conor Amendola
June 19, 2023
A printer error in Nassau County, New York, turned every registered voter Democratic.
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San Quentin Prison cellblocks, 8-16-2016

Fact-checking New York Rep. Paul Tonko on the risks of post-incarceration drug overdoses

By Conor Amendola
April 26, 2023
“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”
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Fact-checking Chuck Schumer on Sullivan County, drug trafficking

By Conor Amendola
April 4, 2023
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included…
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Jennifer Granholm for gas stoves

Claim about Energy Department, gas stoves, China is exaggerated

By Conor Amendola , Mary McNaughton
March 9, 2023
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.
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