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100 million COVID-19 shots in 100 days doesn’t get us back to normal

February 2, 2021

April 30 will mark the end of the first 100 days of President Joe Biden’s tenure. That’s a benchmark presidents often set for making good on high-priority campaign promises. In early December, Biden announced that one promise would be to get 100 million vaccines into the arms of Americans in the first 100 days, averaging […]

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Will Tampa’s Super Bowl be a super spreader? Experts worry about what NFL can’t control

February 1, 2021

The NFL has worked with authorities at all levels to keep Super Bowl LV safe for the host city of Tampa, where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will face off against the Kansas City Chiefs. With a smaller stadium crowd and requirements for masks and social distancing in and around Raymond James Stadium, league and city […]

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Was the storming of the US Capitol a coup? An academic group now says yes

February 1, 2021

On Jan. 6, we published an article about the storming of the U.S. Capitol and the baseless accusations about the presidential election results that led up to it. In the article, we asked whether it was accurate to call it a coup. But because the details of that day’s events were still emerging, we did […]

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What to know about Scott Perry, Trump’s election plot, and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

January 31, 2021

When the New York Times reported that Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) was connected to a failed plot to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro suggested Perry had run afoul of an obscure section of the Constitution. “Rep. Perry ought to familiarize himself with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of […]

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Fact-checking Gretchen Whitmer’s State of the State address

January 28, 2021

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday called for bipartisan action to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and put the state on a path toward economic recovery. The call came in a State of the State address delivered in the midst of continuing clashes with the GOP-led Legislature over her handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Whitmer […]

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How healthy is the economy Joe Biden is inheriting?

January 28, 2021

Two days after he was sworn in, President Joe Biden painted a grim picture of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We remain in a once-in-a-century public health crisis that’s led to the most unequal job and economic crisis in modern history,” Biden said. “And the crisis is only deepening. It’s not getting better. It’s […]

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Can Congress impeach and remove a president who’s left office? A look at the history

January 26, 2021

As the Senate approaches the start of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on Feb. 9, one name keeps popping up — a once-obscure secretary of war from the 1870s, William W. Belknap. Belknap’s impeachment and trial offers the clearest precedent for holding a Senate trial for a political figure who is already out […]

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ISIS, drug prices and COVID-19 deaths: How a viral post misleads on Biden’s first days in office

January 26, 2021

With barely a week under his belt as president, Joe Biden has apparently already caused a lot of problems for the country, at home and abroad, according to a viral Facebook post.  The post claims that, so far under Biden:  “ISIS has miraculously appeared again, we are back to sending military convoys to the middle […]

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Ask PolitiFact: Can dogs detect COVID-19?

January 26, 2021

The NBA’s Miami Heat, like other businesses, is looking at new ways to offer customers a degree of comfort and safety during the coronavirus pandemic. That’s why when it reopens its arena to a limited number of fans Jan. 28, the team’s safety protocols will include an uncommon sight: COVID-19 detection dogs. Before letting people […]

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Biden made a lot of promises about race. Can he keep them?

January 26, 2021

When Joe Biden won the U.S. presidency, he thanked African Americans for delivering him a victory — and he said that it was now his turn to deliver for them. “I mean it, especially in those moments and especially for those moments when this campaign was at its lowest ebb, the African American community stood […]

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Facebook post laments Biden’s first actions with false claims

January 25, 2021

Joe Biden has only been president for a couple of days, but already his critics on social media are saying the country has fallen apart during his tenure. A reader pointed us to a Facebook post dated Jan. 24 that promised to “take a look at the Biden/Harris administration” and what it had done in […]

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Did YouTube remove ‘dislikes’ from a video posted by Biden White House?

January 25, 2021

Hours after President Joe Biden was sworn into office Jan. 20, press secretary Jen Psaki gave the administration’s first White House media briefing. A video of the briefing was posted on the official White House YouTube channel. As social media users scrutinized the video, some started circulating claims on Facebook suggesting that YouTube was suppressing […]

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