Latest Stories By Samantha Putterman

Whether former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., serves as U.S. attorney general during Trump’s second administration depends on several factors, including what senators make of a House committee investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee is scheduled to meet Nov. 20, when it could decide whether to release a bipartisan report […]

Within hours of President-elect Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, women took to social media with a warning: If you’re in a broken marriage, get out now. They said divorce laws would change once Trump is in office, citing the Project 2025 conservative policy document for the next Republican administration. “If you are a woman […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who campaigned with Trump after dropping his own presidential bid in August, called fluoride an “industrial waste” and linked it to cancer and other diseases and disorders.  “On January 20, the Trump White House will […]

After two impeachments during his first term, a 2020 election loss, two assassination attempts and four criminal cases, Donald Trump has won back the presidency in 2024. The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday after he won Wisconsin and secured 277 electoral votes. Polls had shown close margins between Trump […]

A conservative group supporting former President Donald Trump spent $350,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads in the final days before the election to sway voters in battleground states away from Vice President Kamala Harris. You wouldn’t know it from looking at them; the ads from “Progress 2028” look as if they are supporting her.  The […]

Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out her closing argument for president in a new TV ad that attacks former President Donald Trump on health care, entitlement programs and taxes. “What would a Trump second term look like? It’s all laid out in his Project 2025 agenda,” the narrator says. “He’d let insurance companies deny […]

WASHINGTON — In a speech from the Ellipse adjoining the White House, one week from Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris drew a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, calling him a “petty tyrant” and repeating a line she has used in recent days, that she would begin her presidential term not with an […]

In a CNN town hall, Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about her policy approach from voters and took the  opportunity to share several introspective moments. Voters at the Oct. 23 event in the Philadelphia suburb of Delaware County pressed Harris on why her administration didn’t act sooner to curb illegal immigration, what she planned […]

PolitiFact fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN as she spoke with voters in a town hall outside of Philadelphia.  Former President Donald Trump was invited to hold a town hall on the network but declined. There are no future debates planned for the campaign.   ELECTION UPDATES: Follow along for our latest updates, fact-checks and analysis […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has marshaled extensive state resources in his battle against Amendment 4. State agencies he controls launched a website and TV ads against Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion access in the state constitution if it clears 60% of voter approval. DeSantis’ voter fraud unit investigated the amendment’s verified signatures, an effort […]

Hurricanes Helene and Milton made landfall in Florida within two weeks, leaving a trail of destruction. Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., dismissed any link between climate change and the storms, saying “there’s nothing new under the sun.”  In an Oct. 10 press conference in Fort Pierce, a town on Florida’s east coast damaged by tornadoes spawned […]

In a frequently contentious, sometimes testy exchange, Vice President Kamala Harris went on Fox News and fielded Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier’s questions on immigration, the economy and her policy differences with her Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump, and her boss, President Joe Biden. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did her first-ever Fox News […]