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After President Joe Biden said the federal government would pay to replace Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, a project estimated to cost from $400 million to over $1 billion, some social media users questioned why the company that owned the ship isn’t footing the bill. Biden, in March 26 remarks after the accident, said the […]

On March 29, the Biden White House proclaimed March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. This move prompted outrage from social media users and political figures upset that Easter, which fell on the same day, had been “replaced” or overwritten.   “Banning sacred truth and tradition —while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday […]

The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion dollar spending package, narrowly avoiding a partial government shutdown. Before the bill was signed into law in the wee hours of March 23, one pundit criticized some of its details. “What’s in the new monster bill Congress is rushing to pass?” Fox News host Jesse Watters posted March […]

As investigators tried to determine why a container ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, social media users shared baseless speculation about the cause. The collapse  left six people presumed dead and closed one of the nation’s busiest ports. Across social media platforms, people gave a variety of explanations for why the ship lost […]

President Joe Biden came under criticism following his remarks about the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. “#BREAKING,” read a screenshot of an X post shared on Facebook on March 26. “Joe Biden says he’s commuted over the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore many times via train. The problem is that the bridge […]

Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country. The case challenges the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, a prescription-only drug approved in 2000 […]

High-profile people, Republican politicians and social media users are portraying increased immigration at the U.S. southern border as a Democratic plot to increase political power. The claims hinge on the U.S. Census, which determines congressional seats and electoral votes, and counts everyone, citizens and noncitizens, including immigrants in the country illegally. The census has always […]

Crime is always a big issue during election season, and in Wisconsin, there are already hints at how the topic might be discussed as things heat up toward November. Even though the state’s governorship isn’t on the ballot this year, the Republican Party of Wisconsin recently took a shot at Gov. Tony Evers regarding Milwaukee’s […]

After decades of creating laws that assumed “sex” and “gender” were synonymous, lawmakers across the country are taking another look at how states define those terms. Scientific and legal interpretations of these words have evolved considerably in the past century. Today, medical experts understand biological sex assigned at birth as more complex and consider it […]

It took a New Orleans street magician only 20 minutes and $1 to create audio that sounded like President Joe Biden discouraging Democrats from voting in the New Hampshire primary. The robocall was found to be a product of artificial intelligence, and soon after, the Federal Communications Commission banned AI-generated voices in robocalls.  But identifying […]

ST. LOUIS — In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment to voters this year to legalize abortion in the state “We have fought long […]

Videos of people fleeing the sounds of gunshots, images of buildings on fire and headlines of political unrest in Haiti have increased over several weeks. Violence escalated after a coalition of gangs began attacking Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, forcing acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign. He’d assumed the role after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated […]