A clip of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responding to a reporter’s question is being shared on social media and some people seem confused about the context. “Yes, she really said it,” reads the text above the video. “Are you awake yet?” In the video, the reporter asks Psaki about Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s […]
The midterm election campaigns have barely begun, and politicians and advocacy groups are already spending over $1 million a day on Facebook ads to energize their supporters and gain new ones. That pace will only increase as the voting nears. Why do these ads show up in your feed? It may be because you match […]
In counties across Michigan, the GOP is filling election canvassing boards responsible for tallying the vote count with people who have embraced falsehoods and misinformation about fraud in the 2020 election. The bipartisan boards have the routine task of double checking the vote totals submitted by municipalities and signing off on the county-level results before […]
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, people are continuing to look for new prevention and treatment options. The latest combo getting attraction on social media involves Benadryl and a protein found in milk. But don’t open your fridge quite yet. There’s more to the headlines that you need to know. WND.com, a conservative news website, […]
In a speech in Georgia on Jan. 11, President Joe Biden pressed U.S. senators to pass the Democrats’ voting legislation. His words failed to gain the support of Republicans, but they did draw a sharp response from some in the party who were angered when Biden brought up the names of 1960s segregationists George Wallace […]
See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com Flurona is not a new strain of coronavirus. It is simply a buzzword used to describe testing positive for two distinct viruses — influenza and COVID-19 — at the same time. >>
As Democrats seek to set uniform election policies nationwide to make it easier to cast a ballot, one change on their wishlist would allow all Americans to register to vote on Election Day. Senate Democrats have included a provision in the Freedom to Vote Act, their sweeping voting-rights bill, that would require all states to […]
Soon after positive omicron COVID-19 cases exploded across the U.S., hospitalizations followed. Many states are seeing their highest levels of COVID-19-related hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago. But unlike with earlier surges, new data show that large numbers of patients with COVID-19 are coming to the hospital for other reasons […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol dealt a fact-based blow to efforts to rebrand the insurrection as a false flag orchestrated by the FBI. The committee on Jan. 11 revealed that it had interviewed Ray Epps, an Arizona man accused by right-wing politicians and pundits of being an […]
National politics right now is extraordinarily polarized by party. And much of today’s political rhetoric dwells more on name-calling than on nuts-and-bolts policy differences. But at its root, control of government is still about implementing policy. And, quaint as it may seem, we’re here to track the policy agenda of President Joe Biden with our […]
Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be the time her family could safely gather for a reunion. Before the celebration, family members who were eligible were vaccinated and boosted. They quarantined and used masks in the days leading up to the […]
Critics of Dr. Anthony Fauci — the government’s top infectious-disease adviser — hint that he profited from the COVID-19 pandemic. Without evidence, they’ve raised questions about whether Fauci made any stock trades based on advance warning he had of the coronavirus threat. Those suspicions led to this testy exchange between Fauci, and Sen. Roger Marshall, […]