Latest Stories By Maria Ramirez Uribe

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity

In an interview from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump tested themes he might repeat in next week’s ABC debate against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted the hourlong Sept. 4 event. He questioned Trump during the first hour; audience members questioned Trump for a second hour. That second […]
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Resultado de elecciones en Venezuela: ¿Tuvo un rol el levantamiento de sanciones de EE.UU?

El Consejo Nacional Electoral de Venezuela, controlado por el gobierno, dijo que el presidente Nicolás Maduro ganó la reelección el 28 de julio. Pero el gobierno de Estados Unidos y otros líderes mundiales están pidiendo más transparencia y dicen que hay evidencia de que Maduro perdió. El Consejo Nacional Electoral no ha publicado el recuento […]
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Joe Biden lifted sanctions on Venezuela. Is he to blame for the country’s disputed elections?

Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council said that President Nicolás Maduro won reelection July 28, but the U.S. government and other world leaders are calling for more transparency and have said evidence shows Maduro lost. The National Electoral Council has not released vote counts by precincts, as Venezuelan law requires. Maduro’s main challenger, Edmundo González Urrutia, […]
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Fact-checking Donald Trump in Chicago at National Association of Black Journalists conference

In a contentious appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists annual conference in Chicago, former President Donald Trump argued with moderators and opened the conversation by baselessly accusing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, of only recently identifying as Black. Asked whether he agreed with some Republicans characterizing Harris as a […]
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NABJ entrevistó a Donald Trump: Verificamos lo que él dijo sobre Kamala Harris, inmigrantes

El expresidente Donald Trump participó el 31 de julio en una entrevista en vivo en la Convención de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Negros (NABJ, por sus siglas en inglés) en Chicago. Rachel Scott, una corresponsal senior de ABC News que reporta sobre el Congreso, Harris Faulkner, presentadora de FOX News, y Kadia Goba, periodista […]
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Trump rally in Charlotte, N.C., 7-24-2024

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s rally in Charlotte, N.C.

In his first campaign rally since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump attacked his most likely opponent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee.  “She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country. If she ever gets the chance to get into office,” Trump […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress. We fact-checked what he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant hourlong speech in a joint session of Congress aiming to garner support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu denounced people who have protested against the conflict and vowed to achieve “total victory.” Dozens of Democratic lawmakers boycotted the address. Critics — many of whom voiced […]
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Fact-check: Kamala Harris is running for president. How accurate is she on abortion, economy, Trump?

Within a half-hour of announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination.  “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made,” Biden said in […]
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Donald Trump credited this immigration graphic with saving his life. What did it show?

Just before gunfire flew across former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally July 13, Trump turned his head to his right to look at a graphic shown on a big screen. The graphic, titled “Illegal Immigration into The U.S.,” saved his life, Trump told his former White House doctor, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, the next […]
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RNC 2024 Day 2: Fact-checking Kari Lake, Nikki Haley’s claims on Biden’s immigration record

MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention’s second night sounded false alarms about a Democratic plot to turn migrants into voters and invocations of divine intervention in preventing former President Donald Trump’s assassination. The party offered a lineup of Senate candidates and Americans who said President Joe Biden’s immigration and crime policies contributed to their loved […]
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¿Qué dijo JD Vance sobre el aborto y la violencia doméstica? Acá los detalles

Durante la noche inaugural de la Convención Nacional Republicana, el senador JD Vance, republicano de Ohio, habló con Fox News. Fue su primera entrevista como candidato a vicepresidente del expresidente Donald Trump.  En el Fiserv Forum, la sede de la convención en Milwaukee, Vance respondió las preguntas del presentador Sean Hannity y abordó las críticas sobre […]
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Trump VP pick JD Vance says media twisted remarks on abortion, domestic violence. We looked closer

During the Republican National Convention’s opening night, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, spoke to Fox News for his first interview as former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee. Sitting in the Fiserv Forum, the convention’s Milwaukee venue, Vance took questions from host Sean Hannity and addressed criticism about his previous comments on domestic violence, abortion and his […]
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