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If you’re a woman with a thyroid condition, could getting vaccinated against COVID-19 make it worse?  That’s the claim in a Jan. 17 Instagram reel featuring a physical therapist who sells supplements and says the vaccine could exacerbate autoimmune or thyroid problems in people, especially women. The reel includes screenshots of scientific articles with headlines […]

Texas and the federal government are fighting each other in court over who should take charge of an area in Texas that borders Mexico.  Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argues that the Biden administration isn’t doing enough to control illegal border crossings. Abbott ordered the state’s National Guard to install razor wire along the Rio […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump, who ran a nontraditional campaign in New Hampshire, beat his onetime ally Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican presidential primary. This was not the typical New Hampshire primary. Trump refused to debate his primary rivals for months, skipped the usual events other candidates attended and largely campaigned in […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — On the surface, this year’s primary has proceeded as usual. Candidates spoke to packed rooms, with the cleverest booking spaces just smaller than the expected turnout to stoke the excitement. Presidential candidates dropped by the Red Arrow Diner here, including former President Donald Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. The […]

As former President Donald Trump petitions the courts to be held legally immune for his actions as president, he’s begun comparing presidents and police officers. In a Jan.19 Truth Social post, Trump argued that “a president of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function.” […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. – After a few sporadic campaign events in New Hampshire in the days leading up to the state’s Jan. 23 primary, Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race, saying there was “no clear path to victory” for him. DeSantis said he was sticking to his commitment to back the Republican Party’s […]

PETERBOROUGH, N.H.: On her 52nd birthday, Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley called out former President Donald Trump on his age and for confusing her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.  Haley told supporters at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture that during a Jan. 19 rally, Trump, 77, blamed her for failing […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., has been campaigning aggressively in New Hampshire, hoping to convince Democratic voters that a new face is needed to keep the party in control of the White House in 2024. In a series of events in the state on Jan. 18, Phillips, who is challenging incumbent Joe Biden […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — We’ve hit the halfway mark for PolitiFact’s pre-primaryNew Hampshire trip, and I almost can’t believe it.  Friday was a travel day for most of our team, so Senior Correspondent Louis Jacobson and I had a respite from the breakneck pace we’ve kept for the last few days. We visited WMUR-TV in the […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — A key argument former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is making as she runs for the Republican presidential nomination is practical. She says that although polls show that a matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump would be a nail-biter, she would cruise to victory. Haley repeated that argument […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. —If you’ve been following PolitiFact’s journey in New Hampshire, you may have noticed we haven’t covered a rally for former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner. That’s because PolitiFact was denied press access to two of his rallies this week. We’ll try again for Trump rally access this weekend as a new PolitiFact […]

Imágenes de miles de personas amontonadas en la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos han sido constantes durante el mandato del Presidente Joe Biden. Los republicanos en el Congreso culpan a Biden por el alto número de cruces ilegales. La Casa Blanca dice que es responsabilidad del Congreso actualizar las leyes migratorias.  Mientras que miembros […]