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Editor’s note: We updated this story on Jan. 19 to explain New Hampshire’s same-day registration law and how it fuels myths of voter fraud. MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump has accused one of his rivals, Nikki Haley, of courting Democrats to vote for her in the Jan. 23 Republican presidential primary in New […]

HAMPTON, N.H. — Hello from New Hampshire! PolitiFact is in the Granite State this week covering the run-up to the state’s presidential primary Jan. 23. We’re collaborating with our partner WMUR-TV to fact-check candidates and talk with voters about their concerns in 2024.  I’m Ellen Hine, PolitiFact’s audience engagement producer, and I’m here in Manchester, […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis set himself a high bar in a Jan. 16 town hall while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. He mentioned three policies he’d like to implement that current Supreme Court jurisprudence frowns upon.  In the town hall aired on CNN at New England College, DeSantis endorsed these policies: […]

Images of thousands of people crowded at the southern U.S. border have permeated President Joe Biden’s time in office. Republicans in Congress blame Biden for the high number of illegal crossings. The White House says it’s Congress’ responsibility to update immigration laws.  As members from separate branches of government point fingers at one another, the […]

It’s one of the spookiest zombie claims out there about voter fraud: Dead people are voting. Former President Donald Trump has said this multiple times, including after losing the 2020 election. In January 2021, Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that “close to 5,000” dead people voted in the state. But officials found […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — Hello from New Hampshire! PolitiFact is hitting the road this week in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary, which takes place Jan. 23. We’ll team up with our partner, WMUR-TV, to fact-check candidates on the ground and talk with voters about their concerns in 2024.  I wanted to take a second […]

President Joe Biden wasted little time jumping on a remark by former President Donald Trump, in which Trump invoked Herbert Hoover, who was president during the Great Depression’s onset in 1929. Trump told former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he was hoping that the economy would crash within the year, while Biden is president.  […]

On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a nebulous goal that became one of his administration’s splashiest policy failures. “We’re going to fight for much better health care than Obamacare. Obamacare is a catastrophe,” Trump said Jan. 6 at a […]

TALLAHASSEE — Amid rising teen anxiety and suicides, Florida lawmakers are moving ahead with a solution: Stop them from using social media. Under House Bill 1, kids under 16 would be prohibited from using social media. Another bill would block them from accessing online pornography. To top legislators and other advocates, social media is akin […]

Amid spikes of social media antisemitism driven by the Israel-Hamas war, the discovery of a tunnel near a well-known Brooklyn synagogue spurred similar misinformation. The tunnel first made news in December in a local Crown Heights neighborhood media outlet. But the tunnel near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters became a national story after police arrested […]

Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton spoke out last week on NBC’s “Today” show about what she said was a rare pneumonia that almost killed her and resulted in an expensive, monthlong hospital stay. It was a shocking reveal. One key comment jumped out for people who follow health policy: Retton said she was uninsured, […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will learn how her campaign is resonating with voters after the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, the first presidential nominating contest of this election year. Already, the former South Carolina governor — who became well known as one of the Affordable Care Act’s loudest critics during her tenure […]