Latest Stories By Matthew Crowley

A week after claiming his arrest is imminent, former President Donald Trump took the stage at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, to insult the people investigating him and to claim his innocence. Trump, who is campaigning to retake the presidency, has said he’ll soon be charged in a case over alleged concealment of a $130,000 […]

On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” President Joe Biden told host Kal Penn, a onetime Obama administration White House staff member, about having a same-sex love “epiphany.”  Biden recalled being a high school senior in Wilmington, Delaware, his hometown, and heading with his father to City Hall in Rodney Square to apply to work as […]

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 […]

Are you woke to “woke”? Seems pundits and politicians can’t stop talking about it. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address warned of “woke mobs.” Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, in announcing her GOP presidential candidacy for 2024, promised a country that wasn’t “weak and […]

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 […]

As he announced another run for the White House, former President Donald Trump promised a “golden age” for Americans while exaggerating his record in office. He glossed over key facts as he spoke about his coronavirus response, the economy, border security and more. “Together, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” […]

The three-day United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking heads into its final day, Sept. 29, with a full slate of online presentations, headlined by a discussion of disinformation linked to health care. The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is presenting the conference with PolitiFact, its Pulitzer Prize-winning enterprise. During the COVID-19 pandemic, debates about whether […]

The ways media — conventional and social — shape perceptions and filter facts dominated the opening sessions of the second annual United Facts of America online festival of fact-checking. The three-day event, co-presented by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and its Pulitzer Prize-winning enterprise, PolitiFact, featured more than four hours of programming broadcast live […]