Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds described the state as a “beacon for freedom and opportunity” in front of the joint session of the Iowa House and Senate on Jan. 10. Reynolds was ready to tout the state’s successes in implementing low-income tax rates and getting children back in the classroom during the pandemic in her annual […]
Soon after news broke that classified documents had been found in an office belonging to President Joe Biden at a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, former President Donald Trump and his allies compared it with the classified files seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of […]
We’ve turned the calendar to 2023, but before we get too far into it, we wanted to take a quick look back at five of our top fact-checks from December 2022. They covered several issues that will remain on the front burner this year, including access to abortion and Milwaukee’s soaring homicide rate: 1. Gov. […]
President Joe Biden plans to visit the Mexico-Texas border Jan. 8 and expand an immigration program that will give more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela the chance to enter the U.S. legally. Biden said that he was taking action because congressional Republicans have refused to consider his proposal for extra funding for additional […]
A conservative group proclaimed that six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns proved he had followed the law and fulfilled his tax obligations. “Trump tax returns have been released and shows he paid exactly what he owed, no crimes committed,” said a Jan. 1 Facebook post from Red Wave News. The post was […]
Seemingly endless roll call votes have become the signature of the House’s inability to choose a speaker for the new Congress. But however long it takes to choose a speaker, it might be time to get accustomed to hearing hundreds of representatives’ names called out. Whoever wins the speakership looks likely to have a fragile […]
As the U.S. House of Representatives made its way through a historic sixth vote for speaker of the chamber, a Republican legislator from Florida found himself at the center of a political firestorm. U.S. Rep.-elect Byron Donalds represents a Southwest Florida congressional district that ranges from the Fort Myers area in the north to Marco […]
The unusually drawn-out voting for House speaker has overshadowed the tale of Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., during the first days of the 118th Congress. According to news reports, Santos seems to have fabricated most of his biography, including his college degree (he has none), his employment (he was never employed by Citigroup or Goldman Sachs), […]
This story is republished with permission from our partners at Kaiser Health News. OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against COVID-19 slipping after an initially robust response. With doubt, fear and misinformation running rampant […]
Russia’s war on Ukraine, the U.S. midterm elections and investigations into former President Donald Trump were just a few of the headlines in 2022. These stories spurred misinformation and left readers with questions. At PolitiFact, we looked for opportunities to go beyond our fact-checking and dive deep into complex news events, answering readers’ queries and […]
Throughout 2022, PolitiFact tackled misinformation across a myriad of issues, including multiple mass shootings, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the midterm elections. PolitiFact wanted to take a look at what fact-checks our readers clicked on the most. Many of our top fact-checks were of statements […]
In a historic move by a congressional committee against a former president, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted Dec. 19 to refer four criminal charges against Donald Trump to the Justice Department. The charges against Trump, unanimously approved by the nine-member committee, were inciting or assisting […]