Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., wants to be House speaker. If he gets the House’s top post — which is not a certainty given dissent within his caucus — he wants to remove some Democrats from high-profile committees. In January 2022, McCarthy named three Democratic members he would unseat: Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of […]
Border towns around the United States are seeing an increase in immigrants trying to enter the country. Images have captured long lines with thousands of people crowding around fires to keep warm as they wait to enter. And if Title 42, a public health policy that restricts immigration, is lifted, the number of people trying […]
Since January 2022, when it was propelled across the internet in the U.S. by a conservative Twitter account, the false claim has stubbornly persisted that school districts are providing litter boxes for students who identify as cats or furries. Republican politicians and right-wing figures with large followings kept the claim alive, often repeating stories they’d […]
It was 6 a.m. Moscow time on Feb. 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his “special military operation” in Ukraine. “The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime,” Putin said in a televised address, employing the Russian […]
PolitiFact doesn’t take the word “lie” lightly. We use it just once a year. The word “lie,” by definition, suggests an intent to deceive. And while we at PolitiFact sort through a lot of false and misleading statements, our work as fact-checkers cares less about intent than it does about facts. The Lie of the […]
The results are in, and — not for the first time — PolitiFact readers have diverged from PolitiFact editors in their choice of Lie of the Year. PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration that worked to undermine an accurate narrative. (The official choice is made by PolitiFact […]
The disconnect between 40-year high inflation and historically high corporate profits has led some Democratic lawmakers to propose cracking down on companies. Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are sponsoring a bill that would authorize the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to ban “unconscionably excessive price increases.” The […]
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to release its final report later this month in a public presentation in Washington, D.C. The committee interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and held nine public hearings investigating aspects of what led up to the Jan. 6 attack, what […]
Nikki Haley, who has said she is considering running for president in 2024, has repeatedly criticized President Joe Biden’s foreign and domestic policies, including on immigration and border security. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, on Dec. 5 tweeted several things that […]
Minutes after President Joe Biden announced that WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner had been released from a Russian prison, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., criticized the deal Biden made to win her freedom. “Always good to see an American that’s unjustly detained that’s coming home,” Lankford said Dec. 8 on Newsmax. “The problem with this is […]
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock managed to fend off his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, and reclaim his Senate seat in Georgia’s runoff election. Now, Senate Democrats will have a 51-49 edge in the chamber, rather than an evenly split chamber needing Vice President Kamala Harris’ votes to break ties. What does this mean in practical terms? […]
Electric cars aren’t perfect. Producing and transporting them requires energy, and that means buying one has a carbon footprint. But offsetting the emissions created in production does not take as long as one social media post claimed, if you consider the carbon savings by driving electric over gasoline. The Facebook page Weird World posted an […]