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Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council said that President Nicolás Maduro won reelection July 28, but the U.S. government and other world leaders are calling for more transparency and have said evidence shows Maduro lost. The National Electoral Council has not released vote counts by precincts, as Venezuelan law requires. Maduro’s main challenger, Edmundo González Urrutia, […]

Authorities investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump found a number of “encrypted” applications on the shooter’s phone, sparking some Trump supporters to speculate that more than a lone actor had perpetrated the attack.  During a July 18 Fox News appearance, Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., linked the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and reports that […]

In a contentious appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists annual conference in Chicago, former President Donald Trump argued with moderators and opened the conversation by baselessly accusing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, of only recently identifying as Black. Asked whether he agreed with some Republicans characterizing Harris as a […]

El expresidente Donald Trump participó el 31 de julio en una entrevista en vivo en la Convención de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Negros (NABJ, por sus siglas en inglés) en Chicago. Rachel Scott, una corresponsal senior de ABC News que reporta sobre el Congreso, Harris Faulkner, presentadora de FOX News, y Kadia Goba, periodista […]

PolitiFact fact-checked former President Donald Trump’s July 31 appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in real time. Trump spoke for over a half-hour with three moderators: ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, FOX News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor politics reporter Kadia Goba. NABJ posted July 31 that the organization […]

Former President Donald Trump called on Christians to flood the polls in November, promising that if they vote him into office, they “won’t have to vote again” in four years.  Trump’s July 26 comments came at The Believers’ Summit, a gathering intended to provide attendees with “practical knowledge and strategies to live out their faith […]

For the past few years, North Carolina Democrats have worried every time Gov. Roy Cooper has left the state — fearful that Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson would seize the opportunity as acting governor to issue executive orders and help the GOP-led legislature quickly pass conservative laws. Sometimes Cooper has even left in secret, not telling […]

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing a reprise of attacks from some conservatives and their surrogates on her racial and cultural heritage, ethnic background and gender. A list recently shared across social media titled “Kamala Harris Facts,” contains wrong or missing-context claims about her background, including that she is “Not African […]

In his first campaign rally since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump attacked his most likely opponent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee.  “She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country. If she ever gets the chance to get into office,” Trump […]

A list recently shared across social media is titled “Kamala Harris Facts,” but many are wrong or missing context.  “Raised in Canada, not California,” the post says. “Not African American — Indian & Jamaican. Political career started out of affair with married man. Imprisoned over 2,000 Black for minor drug charges and held them past […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant hourlong speech in a joint session of Congress aiming to garner support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu denounced people who have protested against the conflict and vowed to achieve “total victory.” Dozens of Democratic lawmakers boycotted the address. Critics — many of whom voiced […]

Shortly after a gunman opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, misinformation about the assassination attempt spread rapidly online. The shooting also became central to Trump and other Republicans’ messages at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Trump was struck in the upper part of his right ear before […]