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After the contentious 2024 election, Thanksgiving could involve both gobbling up delicious food and perhaps squabbling over politics with family and friends. An August Gallup poll found that a record-high 80% of U.S. adults believe Americans are “greatly divided on most important values.” The definition of “most important values” was left to respondents’ interpretation, Gallup […]

In the months preceding the 2024 election and during early voting, PolitiFact fact-checked numerous claims about election fraud. Most were about vote counting, mail-in ballots and voting machines, but there were also false claims about noncitizens voting, election workers committing fraud and early voting. These claims flourished on Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and […]

La administración entrante del presidente electo Donald Trump podría tratar de eliminar el flúor del agua potable, según Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominado por Trump para liderar el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos. Kennedy, quien también se postuló a la presidencia, llamó al flúor, también conocido como fluoruro, un “desecho industrial” y lo relaciono […]

How big was President-elect Donald Trump’s victory? It was clear, but not a landslide by historical standards. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote; in fact, Trump this year became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988. The vast majority of counties saw their margins shift in Trump’s […]

Elon Musk has been credited with a lot of things: Tesla. SpaceX. Twitter’s rebrand to X.  But, on Facebook, he has also been credited with some spectacular new inventions: a Tesla water engine. A $1,000 Tesla e-bike. Low-cost Tesla houses. A robot for surrogate pregnancies. A “UFO fighter jet that defies physics.” If these seem […]

When President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate one of the nation’s most prominent antivaccine movement leaders to lead the Health and Human Services Department, some social media users warned Americans to update their vaccines. “IMPORTANT — vaccines could now be BANNED for part of this winter by Trump and RFK Jr, although hopefully any […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and military veteran, has faced allegations of sexual assault and questions about his tattoos and their possible connection to extremist groups. Readers asked PolitiFact whether Hegseth’s tattoos barred him from serving in the National Guard during President Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. […]

Whether former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., serves as U.S. attorney general during Trump’s second administration depends on several factors, including what senators make of a House committee investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee is scheduled to meet Nov. 20, when it could decide whether to release a bipartisan report […]

The House is on track to be narrowly divided for a third straight Congress, forcing the Republican speaker to use every bit of leverage to keep members in line on tough votes. As the final House races’ results fall into place, it appears that Republicans will win a slim House majority. Unexpected developments, such as […]

Within hours of President-elect Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, women took to social media with a warning: If you’re in a broken marriage, get out now. They said divorce laws would change once Trump is in office, citing the Project 2025 conservative policy document for the next Republican administration. “If you are a woman […]

As Elon Musk launches the Department of Government Efficiency to recommend spending cuts, he has highlighted examples of what he considers waste. Musk, an entrepreneur, amplified posts on his X platform that said the government funded research on “transgender” monkeys, cats on treadmills and “alcoholic rats” sprayed with bobcat urine. “Some of this stuff is […]

After Americans voted to return former President Donald Trump to the Oval Office, some Trump supporters celebrated on social media by sharing lists of things that had changed virtually overnight. Pastor Franklin Graham shared a Facebook post Nov. 9 saying, “Someone posted about some of the good things that have already happened since President Donald […]