Roughly 23 million children in the U.S. can’t get a vaccine against COVID-19 — but that may soon change. Pfizer and BioNTech have requested an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a two-shot, low-dose regimen for children 6 months to 5 years old. It would be the first COVID-19 vaccine available […]
Donald Trump hasn’t stopped pushing the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen from him, and now Republican candidates deploying ads for 2022 races are getting started with that message. The strategy is appearing in primary battles for the U.S. Senate, House and on down the ballot. Some ads explicitly accuse Democrats of […]
UPDATED Feb. 3: The story was updated to add comment from Rep. Pressley’s office. After the Biden administration announced that the new bipartisan infrastructure law would provide $1.1 billion to protect and restore the Everglades in South Florida, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., visited the region to celebrate the investment. “It was good to be with […]
A Facebook post suggests putting a serial number on every ballot, but many elections experts suggested it would cause more problems than it solves. “If we can put a serial number on every dollar we can put a serial number on every ballot!” the Jan. 18 Facebook post says. The post was flagged as part […]
Critics have taken issue with remarks by White House press secretary Jen Psaki that seemed to suggest flippancy about crime in the U.S. “Jen Psaki mocks people discussing the ‘consequences’ of ‘soft-on-crime’ policies: ‘What does that even mean?’” tweeted the Republican National Committee. Jen Psaki mocks people discussing the “consequences” of “soft-on-crime” policies: “What does […]
In Arizona, Republican state legislators have proposed a bill that would give the Legislature the power to reject election results, and turn back the clock on election advances such as early voting and machine counting of ballots. “We need to get back to 1958-style voting,” said state Rep. John Fillmore, a Republican who introduced the […]
After Russia amassed troops and weapons along its border with Ukraine, the U.S. State Department last week ordered family members of staff working in its embassy in Kyiv to get out of the country, and also urged all U.S. citizens to leave. In a stark warning, the department said U.S. citizens should leave the country […]
Several weeks after the 2020 election, groups of electors gathered in state Capitols to sign certificates affirming which candidate won their state — a routine step in the process of a president taking office. But on the same day — Dec. 14, 2020 — something unusual happened: In several battleground states where Joe Biden had […]
Negotiators from the United States and Europe have been meeting with their Russian counterparts to defuse the threat of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Russia has positioned an estimated 100,000 troops along Urkaine’s border. Some Republicans favor a forceful U.S. response. Others, such as Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., say America has no reason to get involved. […]
Anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared the experience of vaccine deniers to the plight of Anne Frank and other Jews persecuted by the Nazi Germans during the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” said Kennedy during a Jan. […]
In January, the United States marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and President Joe Biden’s first year in office, Republicans blocked federal voting rights legislation, and the country experienced a surge of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Our fact-checking of these topics prompted many of our readers to send us […]
Ted Nugent, the musician and outspoken supporter of Second Amendment gun rights (and critic of Democrats), has been clear that he believes former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, despite all evidence to the contrary. But in a recent meme shared on Nugent’s Facebook page, the “Cat Scratch Fever” rocker asserted that voter suppression […]