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Los Angeles voters will not decide whether to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón in November because recall supporters didn’t collect enough valid signatures to put a question on the ballot. The failed recall effort has fueled a misleading comparison between rejected general election mail-in ballots in California 2020 and rejected signatures on the […]

In the last month, Congress passed a bill addressing climate change, health care and corporate taxation; the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents; and PolitiFact looked into the shortage of poll workers ahead of November’s midterm elections. Our fact-checking and analysis on these topics prompted comments from many of our […]

A bill on climate change, health care and corporate taxation advances some of the key promises President Joe Biden campaigned on in 2020. But the scaled-back bill also offers a reminder of other Biden campaign promises that had to be pushed off until later, if ever. The bill is expected to receive Biden’s signature in […]

Just before former President Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions from lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James, he released a video that suggests James has long had it out for him. “Abusing the attorney general’s office to attack President Trump” read the words across the 24-second video shared […]

An unsealed search warrant shows that the Justice Department suspects former President Donald Trump of violations of the Espionage Act. Additionally, the warrant that granted the FBI access to Mar-a-Lago says Trump is under investigation for concealing federal records, an offense that could be applied to obstructing justice charges.  The list of items taken by […]

We need to know the truth about tampons. Period.  After a viral TikTok warned that a common ingredient in tampons was linked to cancer, many were left wondering if their preferred menstrual products were harming their bodies.  Concerns over titanium dioxide, used by many tampon brands to keep the string looking white, spread to Facebook […]

The search warrant served on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home appears to involve documents that investigators say should not have remained in Trump’s possession after his presidency. This development has elevated some novel legal scenarios involving national-security classification. Some of the papers in question may be ordinary presidential documents that fall under the Presidential […]

When the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launched last month, many mental health providers, researchers and advocates celebrated. Although a national suicide hotline had existed for years, finally there was an easy-to-remember three-digit number for people to call, they said. The shorter number would serve as an alternative to 911 for mental health emergencies. But not […]

When Lindsay Chervinsky, a presidential historian, checked Twitter the evening of Aug. 8, she uttered a phrase we couldn’t print. Although former President Donald Trump is banned from the platform, his presence loomed large that Monday night. In an emailed statement subsequently shared on Twitter, Trump said FBI agents had raided his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. […]

Soon after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, former President Donald Trump posted a statement decrying the “weaponization of the justice system.” He called the search “political targeting at the highest level,” and contrasted what was happening to him with what happened to his 2016 Democratic opponent. “Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid […]

After the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home Aug. 8, the former president criticized it in a post on his social media network, Truth Social. “What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat(ic) National Committee?” Trump asked. “Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the […]

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate raises questions about whether a statute that bans the removal of official records could bar Trump from running for president in 2024. Trump said in a statement Aug. 8 that Mar-a-Lago was “currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”   […]