UPDATE: On April 15, former President Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race. Quick take Incumbent Republican Rob Portman is retiring, which means an Ohio seat is a pick-up opportunity for Democrats — though a highly challenging one. In both 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump carried the state […]
Donald Trump has always been confident in his chances of winning over voters, even if he committed crimes. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump said at a 2016 campaign stop in Iowa. “It’s, like, incredible.” His comment at the time was […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, facing an intense Russian invasion and the possibility of untold casualties and suffering, has called for the West to establish a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine to hold Russian forces at bay. “I say every day, if you cannot shut the sky now, then give us the timeline when you will do […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fueled a surge of false and misleading content on TikTok. Countless videos are exploiting the platform’s defining features around audio creation and sharing in order to spread fake wartime footage purportedly filmed in Ukraine. This flood of misinformation features much of the same types of deceptive postings that have plagued […]
Texas was already in the spotlight for voting woes before Election Day March 1 due to a new law that added identification rules for casting ballots by mail that tripped up thousands of voters. And then on Election Day, reports on social media went viral that either Republicans or Democrats were denied the right to […]
On the first day of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, Russian forces took control of Chernobyl, the power station in Ukraine where a reactor exploded in 1986 in the worst nuclear disaster in history. Experts were concerned, but said that the true danger came not from the decommissioned plant, but from the four nuclear power […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks has made public its most detailed reasoning about how those events might have broken criminal laws. Filings in federal court show the committee believes that then-President Donald Trump violated the law in an attempt to get himself declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election after he […]
A European Union official holding a Feb. 27 press conference mistakenly told reporters that some EU countries would be providing planes to Ukraine. The report was quickly refuted — and the official himself walked back his statement soon after. But social media was slower to correct the record and the bad report gathered traction on […]
With the start of Congressional primary elections at hand, candidates are highlighting China in their campaign advertising to tout that either that they’re tough on China, or that their opponents are too cozy with the communist nation. Experts on China and on election campaigns said the themes are popular for one significant reason: China is […]
A group of 13 Ukrainian soldiers stationed on Snake Island in the Black Sea have captured the world’s attention, but also have been the subject of confounding social media reports about their status. The soldiers were initially reported dead after a Russian warship attacked Snake Island, also known as Zmiiny Island, but they now are […]
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed with President Biden Tuesday night, saying the state of the union is good because of its people. And, that was it. The rest of Reynold’s Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union was a sharp critique of the president’s performance from the White House. “Even before taking the oath […]
President Joe Biden argued forcefully for the power of democracy while calling out Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a State of the Union address that soon turned to the domestic concerns of the economy, inflation and COVID-19. PolitiFact’s team of reporters and editors watched the March 1 address and fact-checked some of the president’s remarks. […]