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Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy’s tense Oval Office meeting about Ukraine and Russia, fact-checked

February 28, 2025

In an extraordinary televised Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shouted and argued about how to end Ukraine’s war with Russia. Trump threatened to withdraw U.S. support for Ukraine if the leaders couldn’t make a deal. “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out,” Trump said during the […]

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Ask PolitiFact: Who can get the measles and is the vaccine safe?

February 28, 2025

Texas reported the first measles death Feb. 26, in an unvaccinated school-aged child, related to an ongoing outbreak in the state. It’s the first U.S. measles death since 2015. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported three measles outbreaks, including in Texas and New Mexico, in 2025. Public health experts said weakening […]

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Fact-check: Trump relies on falsehoods when pushing voting changes in speech to governors

February 26, 2025

President Donald Trump told governors to change their election laws and repeated falsehoods and misleading statements to make his case for new voting policies.  If states required “proof of citizenship, voter ID, paper ballots, one day voting,” Trump said, it would result in knowing “the results of your election by 10 p.m.”  What Trump leaves […]

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Some noncitizens on terror watch list were released into U.S., but how many is not clear

February 25, 2025

Rep. Claudia Tenney recently claimed that people on the terror watch list have been “let loose” in the United States. Her claim came as part of her argument against New York state’s law that grants driver’s licenses to New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status.  “New York is one of the worst,” Tenney said on Fox News. […]

Musk no prueba que millones de centenarios reciben pagos fraudulentamente del Seguro Social

February 25, 2025

Elon Musk, el multimillonario asesorando al presidente Donald Trump sobre como cortar el presupuesto federal, está apuntando hacia la Administración del Seguro Social y da la impresión de que millones de personas de edades irreal podrían estar recibiendo pagos de beneficios. “Según la base de datos del Seguro Social, estos son los números de personas […]

Are there more plane accidents happening this year? That’s not what federal data shows

February 24, 2025

A midair collision between a passenger jet and a helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. A medevac jet that hurtled toward the ground and exploded in Philadelphia. A commercial flight that flipped upside down while landing in Toronto. In recent weeks, videos of planes crashing and burning have populated social media and news […]

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Trump froze out Project 2025 in his campaign. Now its blueprint is his health care playbook.

February 24, 2025

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing […]

How does the US spend taxpayer money? What to know as DOGE, Elon Musk look for cuts

February 24, 2025

As the Department of Government Efficiency roots through federal computer systems for taxpayer-funded programs to cut, billionaire Elon Musk said his team is working toward a $1 trillion target. “The overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit, and if the deficit is not brought under control, America will […]

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DOGE touts billions in canceled government contracts. Where are the numbers coming from?

February 21, 2025

In an ongoing effort to highlight what he says is waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump recently reeled off a list of government funded initiatives: $19 million for biodiversity in Nepal; $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique; $14 million for social cohesion in Mali.  “Forty-two million for Johns Hopkins, great place, to research […]

Elon Musk’s chart doesn’t prove millions of centenarians fraudulently get Social Security benefits

February 21, 2025

Elon Musk, the billionaire advising President Donald Trump how to cut federal spending, is taking aim at the Social Security Administration and giving the impression millions of implausibly old people may be getting benefits payments. “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field […]

The White House exaggerated how sharply illegal immigration has dropped. Here’s what you should know

February 20, 2025

One month since President Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the White House is touting the administrations’ successes, including a sharp drop in illegal immigration.  “Daily illegal alien encounters plummet 95% under President Trump,” read a graphic posted Feb. 15 on the White House’s Instagram account.  An accompanying bar graph showed the number “20,086” […]

Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s attacks on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

February 20, 2025

President Donald Trump made a series of dubious claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to negotiate an end to the country’s three-year war with Russia. Trump’s relationship with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly soured as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the country’s war with Russia, a claim we […]

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