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President Donald Trump posted an image of himself holding a photograph of what he said was the tattooed hand of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the government deported to El Salvador in March despite an order not to deport him there.  To Trump and the White House X account, the tattoos are proof that Abrego […]

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists on for years. Kennedy held an April 16 press conference pegged to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found the prevalence of […]

Approaching 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, PolitiFact has been fact-checking a whole host of topics related to the new administration, significant policy changes and, in some cases, the structure of the executive branch.   The media landscape has changed, especially for fact-checkers. Earlier this year, PolitiFact and other fact-checkers were in the headlines […]

El papa Francisco, el primer papa latinoamericano, falleció el 21 de abril a los 88 años. Francisco, cuyo nombre era Jorge Mario Bergoglio, nació en Argentina y se convirtió en arzobispo de Buenos Aires en 1998, cardenal en 2001 y papa de la Iglesia Católica en 2013. Recientemente salió de un hospital en Roma tras […]

Days before his 2025 inauguration, President Donald Trump announced the launch of his meme coin, a form of cryptocurrency. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., recently said it could be used for illicit purposes. He posted April 9 on X: “The U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can […]

Social media posts have warned for more than a month that President Donald Trump will declare martial law April 20, which typically means suspending civil law while the military takes control of civilian functions such as courts.  But many of the posts appeared to conflate martial law with the potential invocation of the Insurrection Act […]

When a reporter asked President Donald Trump why he paused country-by-country tariffs only a week after unveiling them, Trump said “Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.” Trump’s April 9 explanation came […]

President Donald Trump’s April 14 public meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele centered on the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.  Trump administration officials and Bukele said Abrego Garcia would not be returned to the U.S, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.  […]

A new Cleveland Clinic study on the flu vaccine grabbed vaccine skeptics’ interest, prompting questions and concerns about the vaccine’s safety. “Get the flu shot and you are 27% more likely to get the flu!” read an April 7 X post that referenced a preprint study published April 4. “GET THE SHOT GET THE DISEASE!” […]

A social media post, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate that he might have profited from inside information. At 9:37 a.m. ET on April 9, after a nearly 20% downturn in key market indexes, Trump posted on Truth Social, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” See […]

President Donald Trump and his allies have offered a solution for avoiding price hikes because of his car tariffs: buy American. Trump told NBC News March 29 that he “couldn’t care less” if foreign car manufacturers raise prices in response to tariffs. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are going […]

Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation. False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl — rather than ingesting it — are now informing policy and spending decisions. In an […]