Former President Donald Trump can still run for the White House if he is convicted of a felony in New York. But as a Floridian, could he still vote for himself? Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in an alleged scheme to cover up a hush money payment to adult film […]
Media reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house displayed an upside-down American flag, a traditional sign of political dissent, after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, set off a firestorm of criticism over whether the move was a political statement that compromises his impartiality. Hanging the flag upside-down is technically against […]
This spring, multiple federal government agencies announced changes to antidiscrimination policies for LGBTQ+ people at work, at the doctor and in the classroom. Around the same time, a federal court ruled that restricting gender-affirming care and barring a West Virginia transgender student from playing girls’ sports violates antidiscrimination law. Behind these policy and legal shifts […]
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla, is one of many Trump-aligned lawmakers who traveled to the Manhattan courthouse to support the former president and express disgust about the criminal case against him. “I am not under a gag order, so I am going to tell the truth,” Donalds, who is reportedly a vice presidential contender, told […]
El periodismo de verificación de hechos es el foco de PolitiFact. Nuestros principios fundamentales son la independencia, la transparencia, la imparcialidad y la redacción de informes completos y claros. Nuestra meta es dar a los ciudadanos la información necesaria para gobernarse a sí mismos en una democracia. Desde nuestro lanzamiento en 2007, hemos recibido muchas […]
President Joe Biden’s decision this month to pause a shipment of heavy weaponry to Israel amid that country’s war against Hamas in Gaza was widely seen as an effort to discourage a full-scale attack on Rafah that could kill large numbers of civilians. Critics, however, characterized the pause as an unprecedented departure from the United States’ […]
El aspirante presidencial independiente Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dijo en una declaración en 2012 que un médico creía que una anomalía en sus escáneres cerebrales en 2010 fue causada por un gusano que entró en su cerebro, “se comió una porción y luego murió”, según publicó The New York Times el 8 de mayo de […]
Ban: Merriam-Webster defines it as “a legal or formal prohibition.” But in the 2024 election cycle — the first general election since Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that enshrined a constitutional right to an abortion, was overturned — the term has morphed into polarizing political rhetoric. “Ban” has become synonymous with abortion and the […]
En noviembre, los floridianos votarán por una enmienda que busca ampliar el acceso al aborto hasta el punto de viabilidad fetal. Si los votantes aprueban la enmienda, está anularía la actual prohibición estatal del aborto después de las primeras seis semanas de embarazo. La Enmienda 4 dice que los abortos no pueden ser prohibidos antes […]
Un comité de acción política que apoya la reelección del expresidente Donald Trump lanzó un anuncio en inglés, en el que afirma que el presidente Joe Biden está pagando la renta de los inmigrantes que se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos. El anuncio muestra a una actriz que interpreta el papel de una empleada de […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom, is pleased to announce the launch of a new Spanish-language experience, PolitiFact en Español, to help more than 40 million Spanish-speakers in the U.S. sort out the truth in politics. A new Spanish-language website and a related social media presence are the culmination of […]
San Petersburgo, FL — PolitiFact, un medio de verificación de hechos ganador del premio Pulitzer, que pertenece a Poynter, se complace en anunciar el lanzamiento de su nueva experiencia en español, ‘PolitiFact en Español’. El propósito de esta iniciativa es ayudar a los más de 40 millones de hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos a encontrar la verdad […]