The 2024 election season is intensifying. And to improve access to our stories and fact-checks, we at PolitiFact have upgraded our homepage with several new sections and features. First, for greater visibility, we’ve switched from a list format to a library view for both fact-checks and stories. For quick navigation to trending topics, we created […]
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President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, with a warning that democracy worldwide is at risk. Not long after his June 6 speech, social media users circulated edited video clips of Biden, claiming the president sat in an “imaginary chair,” had a bowel movement and left the event […]
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When Republican lawmakers on May 31 released a transcript from two days of closed-door interviews with the nation’s best-known infectious diseases expert, a portion of the transcript inspired a splashy headline. “REVEALED: Dr. Anthony Fauci confesses he ‘made up’ covid rules including 6 feet social distancing and masking kids,” read a June 2 headline in […]
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El presidente Joe Biden ha dicho repetidamente a los votantes durante su campaña, que su oponente, el expresidente Donald Trump, les eliminaría la atención médica si recupera la Casa Blanca. “Los republicanos MAGA han intentado deshacerse de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible más de 50 veces, y Trump sigue decidido a hacerlo”, dijo […]
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Former President Donald Trump’s recent conviction on felony charges raised a host of other questions. Can Trump still run for president? Yes, he can. Can he vote in Florida? It’s likely. But the answer to another question isn’t as clear: How will Trump’s felony conviction affect his ability to travel internationally? Social media users claimed […]
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Al expresidente Donald Trump lo declararon culpable de varios delitos graves, por la falsificación de registros comerciales, en un supuesto plan para encubrir un pago a la actriz de cine para adultos Stormy Daniels. El juez que preside el caso, Juan Merchan, dictará la sentencia el 11 de julio y será una decisión histórica en […]
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Was the American flag barred from Alaska’s Denali National Park & Preserve on Memorial Day weekend, as social media users claim? A May 27 Instagram post showed a photo of snowy mountains and an American flag, and a caption that read, “Alaska @Sen_DanSullivan is demanding answers after reports emerged that the American flag was banned […]
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En un momento trascendental en la historia política y jurídica de Estados Unidos, el pasado 30 de mayo, un jurado de Manhattan declaró al expresidente Donald Trump, culpable de varios delitos graves. El jurado tomó una decisión unánime y concluyó que Trump es culpable de los 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, en un […]
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In remarks from Trump Tower almost nine years after he launched his first presidential campaign there, former President Donald Trump lashed out about his Manhattan trial and sought to defend his record and his character. Trump criticized a judicial gag order and the prosecution that one day earlier resulted in 34 felony convictions for falsifying […]
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As Election Day looms, many Republican politicians are facing the same question from reporters on the campaign trail: Will they accept the results of the 2024 election? Amid former President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that he won the 2020 election, including in Wisconsin, some Republicans took up his case, casting doubt on the results […]
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In a landmark moment in U.S. political and legal history, a Manhattan jury on May 30 found former President Donald Trump guilty of multiple felony counts. A unanimous jury in the New York case concluded that Trump was guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up a hush […]
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