Latest Stories By Miriam Valverde

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Fact-checking 9 things Trump overstated, got wrong in his Cedar Rapids speech

June 22, 2017

His June 21, 2017, rally speech in Cedar Rapids ranged from health care to jobs to immigration to the Paris climate agreement.

Donald Trump: Comey’s leak of memo ‘totally illegal?’

June 11, 2017

President Donald Trump wondered aloud if former FBI director James Comey's decision to share his memos of their interactions with a friend to generate press coverage was "totally illegal." 

Fact-checking President Trump’s attorney after Comey’s testimony

June 9, 2017

After Comey’s under oath testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz, disputed several of Comey’s statements. But there was a lot of spin in Kasowitz’s comments.

Trump says it’s a travel ban, despite what his own team says

June 5, 2017

Despite what his spokesman, administration officials, lawyers, courts and others call it, President Donald Trump has made it clear that his controversial immigration executive order is definitely a "TRAVEL BAN!"

Tom Price in Rose Garden after AHCA vote may 4.

What HHS Secretary Tom Price said about opioid addiction treatment

May 26, 2017

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price raised an uproar after being quoted by a West Virginia newspaper as saying that a type of treatment for people addicted to opioids isn't very effective and suggesting there's a cure for addiction — despite research on the contrary.

 

Haitian mother and child after earthquake

Donald Trump extended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Here’s what that means

May 22, 2017

President Donald Trump’s administration has extended an immigration designation that benefits about 50,000 Haitians in the United States. Haiti's Temporary Protected Status designation was extended through Jan. 22, 2018.

PolitiFact Sheet: Jared Kushner, Kushner Companies, EB-5 visas and Chinese investors

May 15, 2017

A widely criticized immigrant investor program is back in the spotlight after the sister of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, courted investors for a family real estate project.

What Trump has done in his first 100 days in office

April 26, 2017

Here’s an overview of what Trump has done so far and how he fares on PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter, which tracks more than 100 promises he made on the campaign trail.

For Trump, no signal yet refugee policy will change after U.S. airstrike in Syria

April 7, 2017

Two days after a chemical weapons attack in Syria killed more than 80 people, including children, President Donald Trump ordered a military airstrike on the Syrian airfield from where U.S. officials say the chemical attack launched. Will the president change his position against Syrian refugees?

Trump in Michigan

Canadian nurses and Trump’s plan to renegotiate NAFTA

March 28, 2017

President Donald Trump’s promises to renegotiate trade deals and restrict immigration in order to put American workers first has become a point of concern for some along the northern border: Canadian nurses and Detroit hospitals.

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Nashville rally

March 16, 2017

President Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally in Nashville March 15 to commemorate former President Andrew Jackson's 250th birthday. We fact-checked his speech. 

Lindsey Graham announcement

Lindsey Graham: ‘I’ve never met an illegal Canadian’

March 8, 2017

The debate over unauthorized immigrants in the United States often focuses on Mexican nationals. How many are there from north of the border?

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