A 2-minute video ad that attacks Mehmet Oz features scenes from “The Wizard of Oz” and superimposes clips of him speaking as though he is the wizard in the classic 1939 movie that starred Judy Garland. Oz, a physician and former TV show host, is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. His Nov. […]
President Joe Biden joined a growing club of Americans who, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted, contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Since his July 21 diagnosis, Biden has been isolating in the White House and appearing virtually in meetings rather than in person. His physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, wrote on July 25 that Biden […]
Twin Facebook pages advertise themselves as providing newsy and up-to-the-minute coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. But on a given day, their followers might see videos claiming Norwegians raided Russian ships, Vladimir Putin was defeated on “all fronts,” or that a single British ship blocked a Russian fleet. None of those headlines are true. But […]
In a big week for economic reports, one of the biggest is set to be released on July 28: The first look at how much the nation’s second-quarter gross domestic product grew or shrank. The nation’s GDP already fell by 1.6% in the first quarter of 2022, so if it falls for a second straight […]
When Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated July 8 at age 67, some questioned how this shooting could have happened in a country known for its stringent firearms regulations. Japan does have some of the world’s strictest gun control laws. But experts PolitiFact reached said the circumstances that led to Abe’s fatal shooting […]
With Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race approaching, PolitiFact Wisconsin has been taking a look at how Gov. Tony Evers has fared on some of his first-term campaign promises. We use the Evers-O-Meter to track progress on promises Evers made as a candidate in 2018. Like the Walk-O-Meter before it, which tracked Republican Scott Walker’s promises, we assign […]
As a mob overran the seat of American democracy on Jan. 6, 2021, beating police officers with clubs and bats, and calling for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump watched Fox News and ignored pleas from the most inner of his inner circle to call off the crowd. “Donald Trump refused […]
The House’s Jan. 6 select committee has completed its second prime-time hearing, and its eighth overall. What’s next? The specifics of any future business of the committee remain unclear — to the public, and quite possibly to the committee itself, since members have been saying for weeks that every new hearing has brought new witnesses […]
The text of a 135-year-old law — the Electoral Count Act — was just vague enough for former President Donald Trump and his congressional allies to use dubious tactics to try to crash a normally routine process during the presidential election of 2020. Trump’s plan spurred thousands of violent protesters to riot at the Capitol. […]
The story of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped, impregnated and then traveled to Indiana to receive an abortion gained national attention after President Joe Biden expressed his dismay earlier this month. The girl was forced to travel for the procedure due to Ohio’s “fetal heartbeat law,” but some expressed doubts the story was […]
The Jan. 6 committee will be calling forward people who worked inside the White House to provide evidence about former President Donald Trump’s three hours of inaction during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The witnesses include Sarah Matthews, a former Trump deputy press secretary who called Jan. 6 “one of the darkest days in […]
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, sending abortion policy back to the states, could the court do the same thing with same-sex marriage by overturning the 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges? One justice in the majority that overturned Roe, Clarence Thomas, wrote in a concurring opinion that the court “should […]