Do pit bulls account for 30% to 50% of shelter dogs?
"Our shelters are full of pit bulls. Thirty to 50 percent of dogs in shelters are pit bulls," said one Missouri legislator. Is that correct?
Kamala Harris says voter suppression kept Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum out of office. Really?
By Amy Sherman
May 10, 2019
Many factors contributed to losses by Democrats in the races for governor in Georgia and Florida.
Pot 101 Update: What are the rules for advertising recreational marijuana in California?
By Sami Soto
May 9, 2019
Billboards with colorful advertisements for recreational marijuana are popping up across the state. What are the limits on promoting marijuana and how do they differ from rules on tobacco ads? PolitiFact California looked into the answers as part of our Pot 101 series about what's legal and what's not under the state's pot laws.
What you need to know about executive privilege
Inaugurating yet another phase in the battle over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, the Trump White House on May 8 officially asserted executive privilege over the report’s unreleased and underlying materials. Let’s use this opportunity to take a closer look at what executive privilege is.
How often should Trump be fact-checked? Readers weigh in
We asked readers to share their thoughts on how often President Donald Trump should be fact-checked. They shared their thoughts in this installment of mailbag.
PolitiFact Wisconsin’s ‘High Five’ for April 2019
By D.L. Davis
May 2, 2019
Readers of PolitiFact Wisconsin were intrigued by fact-checks on former presidential contender Hillary Clinton, State Sen. LaTonya Johnson, Assembly Republicans and more.
The record-setting 2020 Democratic primary field: What you need to know
At one point, the Democratic primary field had more than two dozen candidates -- a field that’s large by historical standards. Why has the field been so big? What does it mean for the Democrats’ chances of winning the presidency? In this article, we’ll answer these questions and more.
Senate Democrats accuse William Barr of lying to Congress about Mueller’s reaction. Did he?
By John Kruzel
May 1, 2019
We now know Attorney General William Barr’s earlier testimony didn’t tell the whole story: Barr knew of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s frustration with the summary, and he didn’t share it when asked.
Who is Eric Swalwell? Meet the latest California Democrat running for president
Eric Swalwell, a Democratic congressman from California's East Bay, is running for president and qualified this week for the Democratic primary debates. Who is this long-shot 2020 candidate and where does he stand on key issues?
The money and politics of prescription drugs: What you need to know
America spends about as much on prescription drugs as all the revenues of the three big car makers combined. Tracking where the money goes is hard. We have some charts to help.
In Context: Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ remarks (transcript)
On Aug. 15, 2017, President Donald Trump held a press conference to discuss an executive order he had signed on infrastructure permitting. Reporters shortly began asking questions about Trump’s initial response to violent protests in Charlottesville, Va. It was at this press conference that Trump said that "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."
A guide to possible paths to impeachment (or not) in the House
Democrats in Congress are debating how to respond to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which cleared the Trump campaign of criminally conspiring with Russia, but also detailed President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict and even shut down the probe.