Latest Stories By Bill McCarthy

Senators submitted questions to the House managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team. We took on some of their questions, with the facts in mind.

We fact-checked claims President Donald Trump's legal defense team made during the Senate trial.

A new White House video lauds President Donald Trump for accomplishments he’s made during his time in office. We fact-checked some claims that were false, misleading or lacking context.

President Donald Trump has put together a TV-ready defense team stacked with high-profile attorneys for his Senate impeachment trial. Some members have spent a lot of time in the spotlight.

Democrats on the debate stage in Iowa said President Donald Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Mexico and Canada is marginally better than the agreement it’s set to replace. Here's why many Democrats have supported the USMCA.

President Donald Trump and his team of national security officials have offered shifting explanations for the airstrike that killed top Iranian military leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani. We reviewed their contradictions.

President Donald Trump said U.S. troops in Iraq had not been harmed by Iranian missile strikes launched in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed one of Iran’s top military leaders, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. He also made a number of statements about Soleimani and U.S. relations with Iran. Here’s a roundup of key claims, fact-checked and with additional context.

PolitiFact checked out the available research and talked to experts to get a sense of how bad the nation’s affordable housing problems have become for both homeowners and renters.

On the day before the impeachment vote in the House, President Donald Trump wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to protest impeachment. We fact-checked several misleading statements.

We found that Biden's ad was edited, with clips sometimes shown out of order or out of context, in ways that intensify the campaign’s message and iron out nuances. But a look at the more complete source material doesn’t create a substantially different impression.

The Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report makes the case that President Donald Trump violated an obscure Nixon-era law by freezing aid to Ukraine.

House Republicans released a 123-page impeachment report defending President Donald Trump’s actions on Ukraine. Several key points needed a fact-check.