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Read our full fact-checking of President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address President Joe Biden will speak to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night for his second State of the Union address, updating the public on his actions as head of the executive branch. But why is he doing it? What […]

High-profile police killings of unarmed people like George Floyd and Tyre Nichols thrust police brutality into the center of American discourse. But there’s a central question the U.S. appears to be unequipped to answer: Are more people dying at the hands of law enforcement now than ever? One Jan. 7 story by British newspaper The […]

President Joe Biden wasted little time in crowing about stronger-than-expected job creation numbers.  At a Feb. 3 event at the White House, Biden touted the creation of 12 million jobs during his presidency, the lowest unemployment rate since 1969, increases in real wages for the past six months, and 2.9 percent growth in gross domestic […]

States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the COVID-19 pandemic expire. The upheaval, which begins in April, will put millions of low-income Americans at risk of losing health coverage, threatening their access to care and potentially exposing them to large medical bills. It will also […]

A man narrating a Facebook video claimed that 29-year-old Tyre Nichols was “reckless driving” before he suffered a fatal beating at the hands of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers. “I keep hearing this comment, let’s say that was your child,” the man said in the video, which appeared on the social media platform with a “Tyre […]

As the American public has recently been finding out, when presidents and vice presidents leave the White House, their documents may end up in unexpected places. Ted Nugent, a rock musician and prominent supporter of conservative causes, recently shared a graphic on Instagram that said only one former president — Donald Trump — had his […]

President Joe Biden said he had “no regrets” about not disclosing before the November midterm elections the discovery of classified documents at a Washington, D.C., office he occupied after his vice presidency. “I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets,” Biden said Jan. 19, 2023 in response to a reporter’s […]

Amid the furor over Florida’s rejection of a new high school Advanced Placement course on Black studies, three talking points emerged from both sides of the political aisle. One, from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education department, which called several lessons deficient in “educational value and historical accuracy.” Two, from Democrats from the West Coast […]

Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first full legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Although some state GOP lawmakers have filed bills […]

How well is President Joe Biden doing his job? As he hits the halfway point in his four-year term, public opinion polls continue to show more Americans dissatisfied than satisfied with Biden’s performance in office. But another way of measuring his performance is by examining what he’s accomplished so far.  PolitiFact’s Biden Promise Tracker monitors […]

On Jan. 19, the United States officially hit its legal debt limit of almost $31.4 trillion. Over the next few months, the Treasury Department will be able to shift money around to buy time, but sooner or later, unless the limit is raised or suspended, the country risks defaulting on its debts. With members of […]

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into whether Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster caused strokes in certain age groups, it caused concern— and misinformation.  The CDC and FDA announced their investigation in a Jan. 13 press release. The agencies said a “preliminary safety signal” […]