Long before Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for defamation, PolitiFact was fact-checking claims about the election machine maker and its supposed influence over the 2020 election. Dominion was headed to court April 17 against Fox in Delaware when a judge announced the trial would be delayed a day. Citing unnamed sources, The Washington Post […]
How common is it for state legislators to expel their members? Not common at all, according to a PolitiFact review of 23 years of such cases. We searched Google, news archives and databases and found 19 instances of legislators being expelled going back to 2000, across all 50 states. People have been expelled amid sexual […]
A ProPublica report that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips from a high-profile Republican donor without disclosing them prompted a fresh flurry of criticism from Democrats and raised a question: Does the Supreme Court have a formal ethics code? The answer is no, although the executive and legislative branches do. Federal laws, some […]
Many newcomers to the United States have a litany of things to sort out when they arrive, including immigration paperwork, finding employment and ensuring they have something to eat each day. A video in Spanish posted on Facebook shows images of food and coolers and claims that immigrants only need to have been in the […]
President Joe Biden greenlighted an $8 billion drilling project in Alaska, triggering a storm of denunciation from environmentalists. Less than three weeks later, he put up for auction 73 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leases. Biden’s Alaska decision contradicted his “no more drilling on federal lands” […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., recently raised the specter of the U.S. government tracking ordinary Americans’ purchases — and even blocking transactions of which it disapproves. Decrying what he called “woke banking,” DeSantis told the conservative Pennsylvania Leadership Conference that he would make sure Floridians “are not discriminated against” because they “own guns or they’re Christians […]
Former President Donald Trump has framed a New York criminal investigation into his business activities as a politicized effort brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who Trump says campaigned on taking him down. “Beginning with the radical left to George Soros-backed prosecutor Alvin Bragg of New York, who campaigned on the fact that he […]
As former President Donald Trump was being arraigned April 4 in a Manhattan courtroom on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, a California appeals court delivered a victory to Trump in another case with a familiar plaintiff. Also on April 4, the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered adult film actor Stormy Daniels […]
Supposed mug shots of former President Donald Trump have circulated on social media for weeks, beginning after his March 18 Truth Social post announcing his impending arrest. In some pictures, he’s wearing an orange or black jumpsuit; in others, he wears a suit and tie. Some images show him with hair; others show him bald. […]
Hours after appearing in a Manhattan courtroom devoid of television cameras, with limited photography and encircled by agitated protesters in the streets outside, Donald Trump returned home to Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious estate in Palm Beach, Florida. There, on a ballroom stage with bright lights and a bank of cameras, he faced a supportive crowd and delivered […]
Donald Trump has achieved many firsts. The first president to be impeached twice. The first president to inspire a riot at the Capitol seeking to stop the peaceful transfer of power. And on April 4 he added a new one: the first former president to face criminal charges. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony […]
Luego de que el 30 de marzo de 2023, el gran jurado de Nueva York decidiera imputar al expresidente Donald Trump, las dudas sobre la viabilidad de su candidatura presidencial para 2024 aumentaron. Sin embargo, expertos consultados explican que la Constitución de los Estados Unidos preserva el principio de que los votantes deciden quién los […]