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We picked out some of the most memorable claims Trump made and turned to past fact-checks done by PolitiFact Wisconsin and the PolitiFact National staff to look at their accuracy. 

Democratic presidential candidates also returned to now-familiar themes in debating the differences between "Medicare for All" and more incremental reforms.

Democrats on the debate stage in Iowa said President Donald Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Mexico and Canada is marginally better than the agreement it’s set to replace. Here's why many Democrats have supported the USMCA.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren split sharply at the seventh Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines over a CNN story

Follow along with PolitiFact's live coverage of the Iowa Democratic presidential debate.

All six candidates headed to the debate stage on Jan. 14 support broad-based policies to address climate change. 

President Donald Trump and his team of national security officials have offered shifting explanations for the airstrike that killed top Iranian military leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani. We reviewed their contradictions.

The impact of the Trump administration’s health policies is not as clear-cut as the president’s reelection campaign suggests.

As President Donald Trump makes another visit to Wisconsin, PolitiFact Wisconsin updates the president's promises kept, broken or stalled.  

Newsom’s budget and legislative steps represent continued progress on his campaign pledge to address homelessness statewide. PolitiFact California continues to rate his promise ‘In the Works’ on our Newsom-Meter.

Heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, driven in part by the U.S. airstrike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani, brought new attention to Iran’s capacity for building a nuclear weapon.

We fact-checked some of the top bogus Iran-related images and videos circulating on social media.