Latest Stories By Amy Sherman

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‘An environment of distrust’: How Elon Musk amplifies falsehoods about immigration, 2024 voting

A video viewed by millions of users on X details an elaborate scheme to grab power by President Joe Biden and prominent Democrats. The video shows people racing to the U.S. by land, air and sea and flashes headshots of men of color. The narrator warns that the federal government wants to keep them “in […]
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Donald Trump campaign rally, Vandalia, Ohio, 3-16-2024

In Context: What Trump said about a ‘bloodbath’ and Biden’s actions on the car industry

The word du jour in the 2024 presidential campaign is “bloodbath” — specifically, what former President Donald Trump did or didn’t mean when he used the term at a March 16 Ohio rally. President Joe Biden’s campaign team plucked a nine-second clip of Trump saying, “If I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath […]
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Robert Hur speaks to House Judiciary Committee, 3-12-2024

Lawmakers shared misleading claims at Robert Hur hearing on Biden classified documents

Testifying before Congress, former Special Counsel Robert Hur defended his February report detailing Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, saying it neither exonerated nor disparaged the current president. House Judiciary Committee members compared and contrasted Biden’s case with former President Donald Trump’s classified documents investigation.     In his report, Hur concluded that criminal charges were not […]
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Biden State of the Union, 3-8-2024

Verificando el discurso de Joe Biden sobre el Estado de la Unión en 2024

Joe Biden utilizó su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión en 2024 para adoptar una postura de lucha.  Biden no dijo el nombre del expresidente Donald Trump en sus comentarios, pero invocó con frecuencia el historial y las propuestas de Trump, refiriéndose a él normalmente como “mi predecesor.”  Algunos republicanos criticaron a Biden desde […]
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Fact-checking Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address

Facing a challenging path to reelection amid low favorability ratings and public wariness over the economy, President Joe Biden used his 2024 State of the Union address to take a fighting posture. He repeatedly drew contrasts with his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, and occasionally sparred with GOP lawmakers in the audience. “This […]
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¿Hay un aumento de migración de ‘hombres en edad militar’ de China?

Tras el aumento del número de inmigrantes chinos cruzando la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, el congresista republicano de Florida Mario Díaz-Balart, el expresidente Donald Trump y otros republicanos han dicho que los que están llegando son “hombres de edad militar” y que esto es alarmante. “Casi 9 millones de encuentros ilegales a nivel nacional […]
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Can social media platform outages impact U.S. elections? Not likely, experts say

It’s Election Day in November 2024. Across the U.S., voters are heading to the polls. And major social media platforms are not working.  The scenario could alarm voters and draw news organizations’ attention. But would it affect voting?  A similar incident played out March 5, when Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads stopped working […]
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Is Donald Trump’s NATO talk a warning or a negotiating tactic? Here’s what he has said

When former President Donald Trump said he’d let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO nations that didn’t pay for collective defense, he alarmed world leaders — and spurred President Joe Biden to imagine a world without the alliance. Biden in February asked voters to contemplate this scenario — Trump winning the election […]
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Yes, a Maricopa County voter received two mail ballots. That’s not a sign of wrongdoing or fraud.

After an Arizona voter posted a photo showing she received two mail ballots from Maricopa County, a local elections official debunked any inference that something sinister occurred. “Maricopa county at its finest … My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots. Thank you @stephen_richer,” […]
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Donald Trump presume que él ‘hizo pagar’ a los aliados de la OTAN, pero eso es engañoso

El candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump causó un alarme internacional cuando dijo que él “alentaría” a Rusia a hacer lo que quiera a un país miembro de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte que no pague por defensa colectiva.  Trump dijo eso el 10 de febrero en un mitin en Conway, Carolina del Sur, […]
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on the field in Baltimore, 1-28-2024

A poll found 1 in 5 believe in covert Taylor Swift effort to help Biden win. What does that mean?

A January Fox News segment promoted the bubbling conspiracy theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is a government operative whose mission is bolstering President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Now a poll shows a significant percentage of Americans are buying the false claim. Monmouth University Polling Institute’s mid-February survey of 902 adults found that nearly 1 in […]
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Chiefs victory parade shooting vigil in Kansas City, 2-15-2024

Have there been more US mass shootings than days in 2024? Common statistic needs context

After a mass shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, left one woman dead and more than 20 people injured, President Joe Biden said “gun violence “is ripping apart” families and American communities daily.  On Valentine’s Day, the sixth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Biden reeled off a list of […]
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