Fact-checking Donald Trump on Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
President Donald Trump defended his administration’s response to the crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria amid criticism that his public focus has been somewhere else.
Donald Trump tweeted about an Iranian missile test. Did it happen?
It was largely overlooked amid a flurry of tweets about pro football players kneeling for the national anthem, but President Donald Trump also claimed Iran had recently test-fired a missile capable of reaching Israel.
Claims mislead about California forcing jail time for using wrong transgender pronoun
California's LGBT Senior Bill of Rights has sparked misleading claims by conservative news outlets since early this year. The bill, which would prohibit discrimination of LGBT seniors at long-term care centers, is now on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk. PolitiFact California examined the persistent and out-of-context claim that this legislation would send people to jail for using the wrong pronoun on transgender patients at nursing homes.
Prolific fake news writer Paul Horner dead at 38
The author of scores of bogus stories, often accused of influencing the 2016 election, died at his mother's Arizona home.
A short history of the national anthem, protests and the NFL
It has been hard to ignore the mixing of sports and politics recently, as President Donald Trump -- both on the stump and on Twitter -- repeatedly expressed his disgust with athletes who take a knee during the pre-game rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.
What is a ‘dotard’?
What is a 'dotard'? President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un traded insults recently, culminating in the use of the insult "dotard."
Hollywood Hills deaths after Irma prompt new regulations, but what will they do?
The tragedy at Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills has sparked multiple investigations and crisscrossing confrontations about what went wrong and what can be done to keep it from repeating.
Bernie Sanders back in California
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is headed back to California to tout his ‘single payer Medicare-for-all’ proposal. As he returns, we examined his health care pitch and his record with the truth.
Estimating costs of refugee resettlement in the United States, assistance in home region
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that for the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, more than 10 could be assisted in their home region. We found the on-the-ground reality of aid to refugees to be so complex that it’s not possible to prove or disprove Trump’s statement.
PolitiFact Live: Parsing the Kimmel-Cassidy health care feud
PolitiFact editors talk about the news of the week.
Fact-checking Jimmy Kimmel’s reaction to the Graham-Cassidy bill
The late-night show host said one of the bill's co-sponsors, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., lied to him and the public about the protections he would build into a new health care law.
In Context: Attacks on new Wisconsin Assembly Democratic leader
Providing more insight into 2011 incidents that GOP cries are 'war on women'