Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

President Donald Trump said a precedent exists for an active businessman like himself serving as president -- his legendary first predecessor, George Washington.

PolitiFact investigated the context of the viral image of Trump watching the Baghdadi raid.

President Donald Trump spent more than an hour speaking to reporters in the White House on Oct. 21, addressing many topics, from impeachment to Syria to his decision to scrap the G-7 summit he’d proposed to host at the Trump Doral property in Florida.

As the House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump grinds forward, we decided to answer some basic questions about the impeachment process both today and in American history. Here are 10 questions and answers.

As the pressures of impeachment have risen, President Donald Trump has heightened his use of the word "coup."

We fact-checked multiple falsehoods by President Donald Trump during an Oct. 2 press conference in which he spoke about his phone call with the president of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has spent months criticizing business activities by Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, who could face Trump in the 2020 presidential election. The first activities Trump and his allies spotlighted — the younger Biden’s ties to a Ukrainian energy company — have already led to a House impeachment inquiry against Trump. We  previously found no evidence that Joe Biden used his official activities to benefit his son. More recently, as pressure for impeachment has grown, Trump and his allies have been spotlighting another story involving Hunter Biden — his business dealings in China.

Even in today’s atmosphere of heightened political rhetoric, the word "treason" stands out.

Here’s a primer on how the impeachment process works, what acts Trump took that might be considered impeachable, and what history can teach us as this story unfolds.

A look at the actions taken by President Donald Trump and the underlying allegations against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

During the dog days of August -- as commentators were already wondering whether the nearly decade-long economic recovery was on its last legs -- the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that it was revising downward its employment estimate for the previous year by 501,000 jobs.

Every year in September, the U.S. Census Bureau releases new annual figures for health coverage, poverty and income. The new numbers show worrisome trends for health insurance, but modest progress on poverty and income.