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A special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents concluded that no criminal charges were warranted. However, Robert Hur in his final report criticized Biden’s practices in handling sensitive documents, saying he had found evidence that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen after he served as vice […]

In a case with implications for the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic oral arguments Feb. 8 that former President Donald Trump should be removed from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court in December ruled that Trump was ineligible to be on the ballot because of his actions on Jan. […]

As PolitiFact enters another contentious election year, we want to explain to you, our readers, how we’re maintaining transparency about our fact-checking.  Independence and transparency are the heart of journalism and are especially important in fact-checking journalism. Our readers should understand how our journalists decide what statements to fact-check and we consult sources and analyze […]

Republican lawmakers who oppose a new bipartisan Senate immigration bill are using the words of one of the bill’s sponsors to bolster their opposition. During a Feb. 6 news conference, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., held up an X post, blown up on a poster board, written by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “You can see this […]

Following an increase in the number of Chinese immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have said that these are “military age men” with ties to China’s military or allegiance to the Communist Party of China. “From China, they had 28,000 people in the last few months, 28,000,” Trump […]

Nearly six years after a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Republicans are pushing to lower the legal age for buying rifles and other long guns back to 18. Lawmakers in 2018 raised the purchase age to 21 following revelations that Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz had legally purchased […]

State the obvious: Celebrities often endorse political candidates.  You wouldn’t know that from recent chatter in conservative circles online and on TV that have added “psyop” to singer Taylor Swift’s lengthy résumé. (Psyop is shorthand for psychological operation.) The prospect of Swift endorsing President Joe Biden a second time has sent some allies of former […]

The expected presidential rematch between two men, ages 77 and 81, is a fight over many things: How to protect the border; foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine; abortion access. And now, the potential for a 34-year-old superstar’s endorsement. Last fall, Taylor Swift encouraged her more than 270 million Instagram followers to register to vote, […]

President Joe Biden says he has done everything under his authority to try to reduce illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, and that he’ll be able to do more once Congress passes a new bill. But Republicans disagree. Biden said Jan. 26 that he’s waiting for a bipartisan bill being negotiated in the Senate […]

He dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had pushed to “make America Florida,” is still aiming to shape national policy. DeSantis is proposing an alternative method of proposing U.S. Constitutional amendments that would let states call a convention if enough of them ask Congress.  In a Jan. 29 […]

PolitiFact has hit a milestone: We published our 1,000th rated fact-check of Donald Trump. In classic Trump fashion, he claimed in his New Hampshire primary victory speech Jan. 23 that Democrats used the COVID-19 pandemic to “cheat” in the 2020 presidential election.  Unsurprisingly to our regular readers, his claim was Pants on Fire. It’s not […]

PolitiFact has published its 1,000th fact-check of Donald Trump. In addition to our data analysis, we decided to back at the 10 Trump fact-checks that our readers clicked the most. The list included statements about immigrants, crime, terrorism, Hillary Clinton, gasoline prices and his own popularity.  Here is the list in descending order: 1. “My […]