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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new book is as much a memoir as it is a map of his political ideology. An anecdote about playing Little League baseball is tied to his support of Taiwan. He spends more ink detailing his public battle with Walt Disney World than his wedding at the Magic Kingdom.  DeSantis, regarded […]

PolitiFact has been tracking falsehoods in politics since 2007. But we’ve never seen anyone like U.S. Rep. George Santos. Santos won a seat in the U.S. House in 2022, representing a district that includes portions of Queens and Long Island, New York. Some of his claims were scrutinized by a local publication called the North […]

“Clean energy” seems irresistible. Could you oppose energy that doesn’t pollute? But the term’s imprecision leaves it open to interpretation — and sometimes manipulation. Wind and solar are “clean,” right?  But is natural gas clean — or at least less dirty? Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a group backed by the natural gas […]

At a McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio, former President Donald Trump picked up the lunch tab for first responders and dished out his own take on the Biden administration’s response to the train derailment in that community. A reporter at the restaurant asked Trump about U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s “criticism of you pulling back […]

The Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed and caught fire Feb. 3 near East Palestine, Ohio, had been transporting many materials including vinyl chloride, a hazardous chemical.  On Feb. 6, to prevent combustible materials from triggering a large explosion, officials conducted a controlled burn of the train’s vinyl chloride, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into […]

A month into Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, President Joe Biden said that the U.S. would welcome 100,000 Ukrainians into the country.  “Many Ukrainian refugees will wish to stay in Europe, closer to their homes,” Biden said in Belgium on March 24. But the U.S. “will welcome 100,000 Ukrainians to the United States with a focus […]

One year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, polls show that a rising number of Americans — though well short of a majority — are tiring of U.S. support for Ukraine. In polls conducted in March, May and September of 2022 and in January of 2023, the Pew Research Center found that the share of respondents […]

When disasters happen, local and state officials often turn to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for aid. So, after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, alarming the local community, many people questioned why FEMA had yet to step in. Misleading social media claims have sowed confusion about the status of […]

President Joe Biden has accused some Republicans of threatening Social Security’s future, a charge they have denied.  The attack — and the defense — ignore these facts about Social Security: the Social Security trust funds could be depleted as early as 2032, unless Congress acts to prevent that. Without action, starting in 2035, Social Security […]

For days in late 2022, the group posted itself outside Barclays Center, home to the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets. They were supporters of then-Nets star Kyrie Irving, who was suspended in November for tweeting a link to an antisemitic documentary. Videos showed the supporters lining up in formation or marching the streets, yelling derogatory […]

All eyes are on America’s railways following the calamitous derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. On Feb. 3, more than 30 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed, some containing hazardous chemicals. Officials temporarily evacuated the area and conducted a controlled burn of the chemicals to prevent a potential explosion.  In the […]

A disastrous train derailment in a small Ohio town has left many of the area’s residents concerned about public safety and the environment. On Feb. 3, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed around 9 p.m. in East Palestine, Ohio, a village of about 4,700 people near the Pennsylvania border, about an hour northwest of Pittsburgh. […]