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In the historic Feb. 13 impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans said the Homeland Security secretary “willfully and systematically refused to comply with immigration laws” and “breached public trust” by falsely telling Congress the U.S.-Mexico border was secure. This is the second time in U.S. history that a Cabinet member has been impeached; the first […]

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has led attempts to update immigration law, this month rejected a bill that would have given immigration officials more funding and changed how asylum is decided for people arriving at the U.S.’ southwest border. Rubio justified his decision in a Feb. 11 CNN interview, saying the bill would have led […]

After a mass shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, left one woman dead and more than 20 people injured, President Joe Biden said “gun violence “is ripping apart” families and American communities daily.  On Valentine’s Day, the sixth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Biden reeled off a list of […]

With immigration a top issue heading into the 2024 election, politicians have been speaking often about the challenges at the southern U.S. border. The collapse of a bipartisan border security bill after months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats was the latest chapter in the national political saga. The heated conversation over immigration often includes […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spurred international alarm when he said he would “encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to a NATO member country that didn’t “pay” for collective defense. Trump made the comment Feb. 10 at a Conway, South Carolina, rally as he described a conversation with an unnamed NATO country […]

The special counsel report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents was a major discussion topic on the Sunday morning political talk shows.  The president’s critics played up Special Counsel Robert Hur’s description of Biden’s allegedly poor memory; defenders countered that such details were inaccurate, out of bounds for such a report, or both. […]

Trusting what you see is harder than ever these days. During Super Bowl LVIII, artificial intelligence appeared in multiple ads, as a product, a highlighted feature of a product or as the butt of a joke.  For some viewers, AI was so top of mind that they started seeing it even where it wasn’t.  In […]

Special counsel Robert Hur on Feb. 8 released his long-awaited report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Social media users then parsed Hur’s words from the report to make unfounded claims about the report’s conclusions.  Hur said in his report he declined to prosecute Biden, but noted there was evidence Biden willfully retained […]

No one likes going to the DMV, but what drove LGBTQ+ activists in Florida to stage a “die-in” at the traditionally mundane administrative buildings on Feb. 9? Answer: a memo, shared online Jan. 29, from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that transgender Floridians and their advocates say threatens to subject them […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced numerous unsubstantiated and conspiratorial views during his sprawling conversation with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson, who promoted the interview as an antidote to what he described as “corrupt” media, offered little pushback. Over two hours and six minutes, Carlson provided Putin a platform to push baseless narratives — […]

In a Feb. 8 press conference responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents report, President Joe Biden made misleading and inaccurate statements about the documents — including how documents were stored in lockable cabinets in his home and who the material was shared with — points the report contradicts.   Here are Biden’s statements and what […]

Just hours after the release of a special counsel’s report on a document-retention case, President Joe Biden called a prime-time press conference to applaud the counsel’s decision not to prosecute him and to rebut the report’s suggestion that aging has left him with “a poor memory.” Biden said media reports were misrepresenting the special counsel’s […]