Latest Stories By Samantha Putterman

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Kamala Harris campaigns for President in Wisconsin July 2024

Kamala Harris is again facing attacks on her racial identity. Here’s more about her background.

July 26, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing a reprise of attacks from some conservatives and their surrogates on her racial and cultural heritage, ethnic background and gender. A list recently shared across social media titled “Kamala Harris Facts,” contains wrong or missing-context claims about her background, including that she is “Not African […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress. We fact-checked what he said.

July 25, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant hourlong speech in a joint session of Congress aiming to garner support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu denounced people who have protested against the conflict and vowed to achieve “total victory.” Dozens of Democratic lawmakers boycotted the address. Critics — many of whom voiced […]

Gold Star families onstage at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, 7-17-2024

Families of fallen US service members’ emotional moment at RNC, accusations against Joe Biden

July 18, 2024

In an emotional moment at the Republican National Convention, Gold Star families of U.S. service members who were killed in an August 2021 terrorist attack at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport accused President Joe Biden of “never once” saying their names. Herman Lopez, the father of U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, said each name aloud as […]

RNC 2024 Day 2: Fact-checking Kari Lake, Nikki Haley’s claims on Biden’s immigration record

July 17, 2024

MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention’s second night sounded false alarms about a Democratic plot to turn migrants into voters and invocations of divine intervention in preventing former President Donald Trump’s assassination. The party offered a lineup of Senate candidates and Americans who said President Joe Biden’s immigration and crime policies contributed to their loved […]

JD Vance is Trump’s VP pick. His relationship with Trump, controversies and comments, fact-checked

July 16, 2024

Former President Donald Trump has selected Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the Great State of […]

Project 2025: Are Biden campaign warnings about plan for Trump election win correct?

July 12, 2024

By now, you have probably heard about Project 2025. President Joe Biden certainly hopes so.  Biden’s reelection campaign is blitzing the internet with social media posts, videos, ads and a website that warn of a stark postelection agenda a victorious Donald Trump could execute. “Project 2025 should scare every single American,” Biden posted on X […]

Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Israel and Gaza: Comparing their positions

June 25, 2024

For decades, American politicians of both parties have tended to coalesce around support for Israel. That support has shifted as Israel wages its war in Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that left more than 1,000 Israelis dead and several hundred taken hostage. The United Nations estimates more than 35,000 people — including many […]

To ban or not to ban: Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s mixed messages on TikTok

June 13, 2024

When former President Donald Trump joined TikTok June 1 with a video showing him at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight, he said it was “an honor.” A few days later, he vowed in a TikTok video to “never ban TikTok.” Those two moments stood in sharp contrast to Trump’s 2020 announcement that he would seek […]

Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism

June 10, 2024

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently tried to draw Black voters to Trump’s side, but a comparison he made involving the Jim Crow era drew criticism from Democrats. At a June 4 event in Philadelphia, Donalds compared today’s Black culture with that of the Jim Crow era, when […]

(En Español) Trump en un mitin el 11 de mayo de 2024

¿Quiere Donald Trump eliminar el Obamacare, como dice Joe Biden?

June 5, 2024

El presidente Joe Biden ha dicho repetidamente a los votantes durante su campaña, que su oponente, el expresidente Donald Trump, les eliminaría la atención médica si recupera la Casa Blanca. “Los republicanos MAGA han intentado deshacerse de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible más de 50 veces, y Trump sigue decidido a hacerlo”, dijo […]

¿Cuáles factores pueden influir en la sentencia de Donald Trump en Manhattan?

June 3, 2024

Al expresidente Donald Trump lo declararon culpable de varios delitos graves, por la falsificación de registros comerciales, en un supuesto plan para encubrir un pago a la actriz de cine para adultos Stormy Daniels.  El juez que preside el caso, Juan Merchan, dictará la sentencia el 11 de julio y será una decisión histórica en […]

Trump es culpable en el juicio de NY: ¿Qué pasará ahora?

May 31, 2024

En un momento trascendental en la historia política y jurídica de Estados Unidos, el pasado 30 de mayo, un jurado de Manhattan declaró al expresidente Donald Trump, culpable de varios delitos graves.  El jurado tomó una decisión unánime  y concluyó que Trump es culpable de los 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, en un […]

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