Of the nearly 200 million people who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, more than 9 million have enrolled in a program to share information about their health since getting the shot. The initiative was created for the COVID-19 vaccines as an addition to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s […]
U.S. officials are working on one of the largest airlifts in U.S. history ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline to leave Afghanistan. The evacuation effort includes American citizens as well as thousands of refugees and Afghans who helped the U.S. military over two decades of war. Images and footage have shown hectic conditions inside and […]
Shortly after the Taliban seized control in Afghanistan, Fox News hosts and other media claimed that President Joe Biden hamstrung U.S. ability to evacuate Americans from crises overseas by dismantling a Trump-era program. The Biden administration said the Contingency and Crisis Response bureau, as the relatively obscure program was called, never existed in a functioning […]
A year after a week of violence and upheaval, we are looking back at some of our past fact checks about the shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of two men by Kyle Rittenhouse. The incidents propelled Kenosha to the center of a national reckoning on race — and, for a time, to the […]
This summer, a wide range of states scrambled to create lotteries to incentivize citizens to get vaccinated for the coronavirus. In all, 26 states offered some type of incentive, with a majority using a lottery drawing, according to the National Governors Association. On May 10, Ohio became the first in the nation to launch a […]
President Joe Biden’s Aug. 16 speech on Afghanistan — after the Taliban took over — highlighted a tough foreign policy issue that some people haven’t paid attention to recently. Here, we’ll answer common questions that Biden’s speech raises and note where his claims lack evidence or context. What was the U.S. mission in Afghanistan? Figure […]
The Biden administration announced plans to offer boosters to all U.S. adults as soon as next month, saying that recent data, including some made available only in the past few days, played a role in that decision. “If you wait for something bad to happen before you respond to it, you find yourselves considerably behind,” Dr. […]
As the numbers of new COVID-19 cases rise in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has claimed that the ongoing spike is to be expected — that it’s part of a seasonal pattern. “We have a summer season here, just like last year. It started a little later this year. So you’re going to have higher prevalence […]
A stopped clock is right twice a day, but is a clock that’s an hour behind evidence that the president of the United States used an old photo to pretend he was engaged in foreign policy? Some on social media are claiming it does, but we’ve found no such evidence. On Aug. 14, the verified […]
In Saigon, April 1975, throngs of desperate Vietnamese people scaled the walls of the American embassy, hoping to get to any helicopter that would carry them away to safety. In Kabul, August 2021, equally desperate Afghans mounted the walls of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, and filled the runways, also hoping to find escape. The […]
As the spread of new coronavirus variants adds more urgency to the push to vaccinate people against COVID-19, public health officials and doctors across the country are working to reassure one group of Americans: those concerned about vaccines and pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revamped its COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for pregnant women, […]
Nationwide, before parents drop off their children at the start of the school year, one important task on their to-do list is to submit the required proof of vaccinations. But one vaccine is noticeably absent from the list of state-mandated vaccines for school enrollment: the COVID-19 vaccine, which has been available to children ages 12 […]