A fact-check guide to Texas’ Tuesday primaries
Here's what PolitiFact Texas learned while researching fact-checks in the weeks preceding the March 2018 Texas party primaries.
Were medics denied access to treat students inside Stoneman Douglas High School?
A story circulating around the Internet claims emergency medical workers were denied access to students during the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
PolitiFact fact-checks Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Post
We look at the accuracy at some of the Oscar nominees for best picture.
Casey Cagle’s tweet on Delta, the NRA and tax breaks. Is it legal?
Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle vowed to kill any legislation that would benefit Delta Air Lines if the Atlanta-based company did not backtrack on its decision to end an agreement with the National Rifle Association to remain "neutral" in the national debate over gun control.
Cagle’s statement was a promise of future action and political stance, so we are not rating it on the Truth-O-Meter. But we wanted to look into it after seeing chatter wondering if it would be legal for Cagle to follow up on his threat.
Hope Hicks and the history of White House ‘white lies’
According to news reports, White House communications director Hope Hicks testified to the House Intelligence Committee that she had told "white lies" as part of her job representing President Donald Trump. Within 24 hours, Hicks announced her departure from the White House.
How are school shootings defined?
There’s no legal definition or consensus for how best to define a school shooting. PolitiFact California examined how different advocacy groups define these tragic crimes to see where they fit in this unsettled debate.
Democrats’ memo pushes back on GOP claims about Russia probe
By John Kruzel
February 28, 2018
The House Intelligence Committee's partisan divide deepened with the Feb. 24 release of a Democratic memo fending off Republican claims that the investigation into collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is politically tainted.
Donald Trump’s dubious attack on U.S.-Canada trade
Most of the time, Canada isn’t the biggest target of ire for American politicians. But in a speech to governors on Feb. 26, President Donald Trump took aim at the country’s neighbors to the north, calling out the balance of trade between the two nations.
Fact-checking the movie The Post, Oscar nominee for best picture
By John Kruzel
February 26, 2018
The Post, Steven Spielberg’s paean to the First Amendment and the free press, tells the tale of the Washington Post’s diffident publisher and ambitious editor summoning the courage to publish a top-secret study in the face of unprecedented government censorship.
Fact-check: Darkest Hour movie gets Winston Churchill mostly right
The Winston Churchill biopic stays within the guardrails of historical fact, but it does take liberties.
Dunkirk fact-check: Movie indulges a few myths but also uses the facts
Never content to simply enjoy a good movie, we wanted to find out how closely "Dunkirk" matches what really happened on a beach in France in May 1940.
Donald Trump at CPAC gives misleading impression about immigration, MS-13
Speaking at the conservative CPAC conference in Washington, President Donald Trump took a hard line on immigration and again used the deadly Central American gang MS-13 as an example.