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No one likes going to the DMV, but what drove LGBTQ+ activists in Florida to stage a “die-in” at the traditionally mundane administrative buildings on Feb. 9? Answer: a memo, shared online Jan. 29, from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that transgender Floridians and their advocates say threatens to subject them […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced numerous unsubstantiated and conspiratorial views during his sprawling conversation with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson, who promoted the interview as an antidote to what he described as “corrupt” media, offered little pushback. Over two hours and six minutes, Carlson provided Putin a platform to push baseless narratives — […]

In a Feb. 8 press conference responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents report, President Joe Biden made misleading and inaccurate statements about the documents — including how documents were stored in lockable cabinets in his home and who the material was shared with — points the report contradicts.   Here are Biden’s statements and what […]

Just hours after the release of a special counsel’s report on a document-retention case, President Joe Biden called a prime-time press conference to applaud the counsel’s decision not to prosecute him and to rebut the report’s suggestion that aging has left him with “a poor memory.” Biden said media reports were misrepresenting the special counsel’s […]

A special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents concluded that no criminal charges were warranted. However, Robert Hur in his final report criticized Biden’s practices in handling sensitive documents, saying he had found evidence that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen after he served as vice […]

In a case with implications for the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic oral arguments Feb. 8 that former President Donald Trump should be removed from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court in December ruled that Trump was ineligible to be on the ballot because of his actions on Jan. […]

As PolitiFact enters another contentious election year, we want to explain to you, our readers, how we’re maintaining transparency about our fact-checking.  Independence and transparency are the heart of journalism and are especially important in fact-checking journalism. Our readers should understand how our journalists decide what statements to fact-check and we consult sources and analyze […]

Republican lawmakers who oppose a new bipartisan Senate immigration bill are using the words of one of the bill’s sponsors to bolster their opposition. During a Feb. 6 news conference, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., held up an X post, blown up on a poster board, written by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “You can see this […]

Following an increase in the number of Chinese immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have said that these are “military age men” with ties to China’s military or allegiance to the Communist Party of China. “From China, they had 28,000 people in the last few months, 28,000,” Trump […]

Nearly six years after a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Republicans are pushing to lower the legal age for buying rifles and other long guns back to 18. Lawmakers in 2018 raised the purchase age to 21 following revelations that Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz had legally purchased […]

State the obvious: Celebrities often endorse political candidates.  You wouldn’t know that from recent chatter in conservative circles online and on TV that have added “psyop” to singer Taylor Swift’s lengthy résumé. (Psyop is shorthand for psychological operation.) The prospect of Swift endorsing President Joe Biden a second time has sent some allies of former […]

The expected presidential rematch between two men, ages 77 and 81, is a fight over many things: How to protect the border; foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine; abortion access. And now, the potential for a 34-year-old superstar’s endorsement. Last fall, Taylor Swift encouraged her more than 270 million Instagram followers to register to vote, […]