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Black Lives Matter has been derided as a terrorist organization (a claim we rated False), a Marxist movement (we found little evidence) and as anti-Semitic (despite some concerns, hundreds of Jewish organizations support it, we found). An attack made less often is that Black Lives Matter wants to abolish the traditional family.  For example, at […]

President Donald Trump capped a week of blurred divisions between his political and presidential life when he accepted the Republican nomination from the White House South Lawn. Addressing a crowd, Trump tore into Democratic opponent Joe Biden and talked up his efforts to improve the lives of Black Americans. “I say very modestly that I […]

President Donald Trump told the American people this week that convalescent plasma is a potential new treatment for COVID-19. His announcement followed the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Aug. 23 to grant fast-track authorization for its emergency use as a treatment for hospitalized COVID patients. This “emergency use authorization” triggered an outcry from scientists and doctors, who said […]

President Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president in a speech from the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 27, the first president to do so since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1940, Roosevelt accepted the nomination for a third term with a late night radio address. “It is with a very […]

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers pushed for a state takeover of Detroit’s elections after the Wayne County Board of Canvassers identified a number of problems with processing absentee ballots cast by Detroit voters in the August primary. In 363 out of the city’s 503 precincts — roughly 72% — the number of absentee ballots […]

Update: After this story was published, the Wisconsin Department of Justice provided an update on its investigation. Those details are now included in this report. Police in Illinois have arrested a teenager in connection with the killing of two people during a third night of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, […]

In mid August, Marjorie Taylor Greene won the primary election in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which is likely to vote red in November. Two weeks later, she was invited to attend President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention. Jo Rae Perkins of Oregon and Lauren Boebert of Colorado also won Republican primary elections […]

In accepting the Republican Party nomination on Aug. 27, Vice President Mike Pence accurately recounted the history of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, and how a failed British bombardment in 1814 helped inspire Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner.”   Pence’s attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, on the other hand, were sometimes misleading, incomplete […]

Speakers at the Republican National Convention hailed President Donald Trump as an anti-war leader who has saved the U.S. from a string of “endless wars” in the Middle East. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, for example, celebrated Trump for “bringing our men and women home.” Eric Trump claimed that his father has achieved “peace in […]

As the once-every-decade Census approaches its completion, some observers are worrying about a rough landing. It’s never an easy task to count hundreds of millions of Americans spread out through 3.7 million square miles. But the 2020 Census has faced a special set of challenges. First came a fierce legal battle over the Trump administration’s […]

With the crucial 2020 census running in the midst of a pandemic, many officials worry that undercounted communities will lose out on billions of federal health care dollars allocated to states and localities based on census data. Rep. Andy Levin, who represents Michigan’s 9th congressional district, took to Twitter to try to explain what’s at […]

In its first post-convention ad, the Biden campaign went on the attack, criticizing President Trump for calling for a boycott on the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.  The campaign released the 30-second ad in two states with large numbers of Goodyear employees: Ohio, where the company’s global headquarters are located, and North Carolina, home to […]