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The documents became automatically declassified when he left the White House. The search of Mar-a-Lago was illegal. Barack Obama did it. Joe Biden did it. And what about Hillary Clinton’s emails? President Donald Trump has offered these defenses and more when talking about the federal investigation into his handling of classified documents.  Trump said June […]

Already besieged by criticism from the political right for its annual Pride clothing collection, Target Corp. is facing new allegations over its decade-plus partnership with GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. GLSEN supports LGBTQ+ inclusion, affirmation and safety in schools. But critics are focused on one aspect of its advocacy and suggest that Target, by relation, […]

The field of candidates for the Republican nomination for president has been set. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, enterpreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and others are challenging former President Donald Trump, who is running for a third time. Since leaving office, Trump — the frontrunner in early polls — has been indicted four times on […]

Abortion opponents are using a new argument in their efforts to restrict abortion access: the environment. The anti-abortion group Students for Life claimed that trace amounts of mifepristone — the first of two drugs taken for a medication abortion — are poisoning American wastewater. Students for Life ambassador Isabel Brown warned people “it’s probably time […]

El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, lanzó oficialmente su campaña presidencial para 2024, intensificando una disputa existente con otro aspirante a la nominación del partido republicano: el expresidente Donald Trump.  En un nuevo anuncio titulado, “Obviously” (Obviamente), un comité de acción política que apoya a Trump, llamado MAGA Inc., traza una línea de tiempo de […]

Robots have a long history of replacing humans in the workplace. Automobile workers, elevator operators, bank tellers, gas station attendants, even grocery store checkout clerks have felt the squeeze. With ground-breaking artificial intelligence advances, reporters at PolitiFact had to wonder … are the fact-checkers next? Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has exploded into relevance in the […]

Former President Donald Trump has portrayed his campaign rival Gov. Ron DeSantis as a weak pandemic leader and a fan of COVID-19 lockdowns.  “Surprise, Ron was a big lockdown governor on the China virus, sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period of time,” Trump said March 22, a statement we found misleading. […]

Even before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race, he faced criticism from Republican rivals who were waiting for him to make it official. Those competitors include former President Donald Trump, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. Here’s […]

Poynter’s PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact checking media organization, today announced its partnership with NBCUniversal’s TV stations in Florida – NBC 6 / WTVJ, Telemundo 51 / WSCV, Telemundo 31 Orlando / WTMO, Telemundo 49 Tampa / WRMD and Telemundo Fort Myers Naples / WWDT – to bring its fact-checks to the stations’ newscasts, digital, mobile […]

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement lurched before it launched — technical problems had the Twitter Spaces audio cutting in and out for 15 minutes, sometimes leaving long silences. When the audio finally steadied, DeSantis promised success. “If you nominate me, you can set your clock to Jan. 20, 2025, at high noon,” he said, […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has filed paperwork for a 2024 presidential run, officially kick-starting his bid for the Republican nomination. His candidacy has been widely expected, and for months, he has touted his platform: to make Florida the blueprint for the U.S. DeSantis has emphasized policies he’s enacted that target illegal immigration, limit gender-affirming care […]

When Ron DeSantis ran for governor in 2018, he ran on a sparse policy platform. He didn’t say much about his approach to illegal immigration. His website listed only two policy goals on immigration: enact E-Verify to ensure a legal workforce and ban “sanctuary cities.”  DeSantis campaigned praising then-President Donald Trump’s immigration policies — in […]