Latest Stories By Maria Ramirez Uribe

El presidente Joe Biden se postula para la reelección en 2024, enfrentando una revancha potencial con el ex-presidente Donald Trump.  PolitiFact ha verificado más de 260 declaraciones de Biden desde el 2007, cuando él era un senador de Estados Unidos de Delaware buscando la nominación presidencial Demócrata.  Estas son algunas de nuestras verificaciones más recientes […]

President Joe Biden is running for re-election in 2024, facing a potential rematch with former President Donald Trump. PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 260 statements by Biden since 2007, when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.  See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com We have also tracked Biden’s progress on 99 […]

Former President Donald Trump has framed a New York criminal investigation into his business activities as a politicized effort brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who Trump says campaigned on taking him down.  “Beginning with the radical left to George Soros-backed prosecutor Alvin Bragg of New York, who campaigned on the fact that he […]

Después del más reciente tiroteo masivo en una escuela en Nashville, Tennessee, se han propagado los debates sobre políticas de control de armas y que tan a menudo suceden estos tiroteos. Las autoridades han dicho que Audrey Hale, de 28 años, fue la persona responsable del tiroteo el 27 de marzo en una escuela primaria […]

Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on this key fact about fentanyl: lots of it is being interdicted at the southern U.S. border. Beyond that, there’s disagreement on how exactly the drug is getting into the United States and what this says about President Joe Biden’s policies. “Joe Biden’s open border policies have allowed criminal […]

The spectacular implosion of Silicon Valley Bank, a top lender to technology companies and startups until a few days ago, has prompted finger-pointing from the political left and right about why it happened and who is at fault.  Silicon Valley Bank, now the second-largest bank to collapse in U.S. history and the largest since the […]

Former President Donald Trump vowed to a Republican audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference to “finish what we started.”  “I am your warrior, I am your justice — and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” Trump said March 4 at the conference in National Harbor, Maryland. “I will […]

During the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference, two Republican House representatives claimed that cartels control the United States’ southern border.  In one panel, moderator Todd Starnes asked Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., to describe the situation at the southern border.  “The cartels are running the border,” Perry said March 2. “The cartels have operational control of […]

President Joe Biden’s administration recently proposed a new rule that would limit an immigrant’s ability to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border. This comes as Biden deals with historic numbers of immigrants reaching the border, including about 1.7 million who entered the U.S. to seek asylum.   Immigration rights advocates and congressional Democrats have criticized […]

A month into Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, President Joe Biden said that the U.S. would welcome 100,000 Ukrainians into the country.  “Many Ukrainian refugees will wish to stay in Europe, closer to their homes,” Biden said in Belgium on March 24. But the U.S. “will welcome 100,000 Ukrainians to the United States with a focus […]

After each mass shooting in the United States, we hear a lot of debate about gun policies and just how often these shootings happen.  On Feb. 13, a gunman fatally shot three Michigan State University students and critically injured five others in what some have defined as a “mass shooting.”   After the shooting, some news […]

For years, civil rights attorney Ben Crump has described “police culture” as a central factor leading to police brutality. Tyre Nichols’ death fits that mold, he said Jan. 29 on ABC’s “This Week.”  Nichols died Jan. 10, three days after a group of Memphis, Tennessee, police officers beat him following a traffic stop. Five police […]