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Trump created a 100-day contract with voters. We scored how he's done.

Donald Trump is learning what most presidents do: It’s a lot easier to make campaign promises than to deliver on them.

President Donald Trump played up his accomplishments in his first 100 days, while simultaneously downplaying the significance of the milepost, in an April 21 interview with the Associated Press. We fact-checked his claims about his accomplishments so far.

PolitiFact editors discuss the truth behind the week in news.

We've been fact-checking fake news stories for months, and we've noticed several categories and trends in an industry looking to make a fool out of you.

The Trump administration met widespread opposition from advocates of government transparency when it announced that it would not be publicizing the logs of White House visitors -- as the Obama White House generally had done.

Most of the statements Donald Trump has made as president that have been checked by PolitiFact have received ratings toward the bottom of the Truth-O-Meter. 

A North Carolina legislator compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and said the Civil War was unconstitutional. So we asked experts from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line what they thought.

The 'beats the competition' Southwest Airlines image is a spoof ad.

The United States dropped "the mother of all bombs" on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on April 13. Here’s what we know so far.

The first edition of our new weekly Facebook Live show.

Ride-hailing upstate, free college tuition, tax cuts, and more. Here's what you need to know about this year's state budget in New York.