Latest Stories By John Kruzel

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How the U.S. funds disaster recovery

September 14, 2017

As vast swaths of the country reel from the one-two punch of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the focus now is on efforts to help affected states and communities recover from the devastation.

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Fact-checking Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the DACA immigration program

September 5, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end to a program that protected some 800,000 immigrants from deportation, claiming it was created by Obama’s administration as an overreach of executive power and that it circumvented the Constitution.

Fact-checking Trump’s tax speech in Missouri

August 30, 2017

President Donald Trump went to Missouri to relaunch his push for a major overhaul of America’s tax code.

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Trump opens new chapter in America’s longest war

August 23, 2017

In his first major policy address, Donald Trump declared he would dramatically alter American strategy in Afghanistan, marking a new chapter in the longest war in U.S. history.

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Trump says Lindsey Graham ‘lied’ about Trump’s Charlottesville comments. Did he?

August 18, 2017

After being widely rebuked for his response to the deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump fired back at one of his loudest critics, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Trump takes aim at Amazon in barbed tweet. What are the facts?

August 16, 2017

Donald Trump took to Twitter to once again unload on Amazon and appeared to accuse the online retail giant of avoiding taxes, killing jobs and hurting American communities.

Does Mueller’s grand jury mean an indictment is imminent?

August 10, 2017

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has opened a grand jury in Washington, D.C., for his investigation into Russian election meddling and possible coordination by Trump campaign associates. What's the significance of this move?

3 times Trump team changed its story on Russia

August 3, 2017

President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle have made a number of statements to play down or outright denied his campaign’s contacts with Russia that were later proved false.

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In Context: Trump’s comments about treatment of suspects in police custody

August 1, 2017

President Donald Trump appeared to complain about suspects in police custody being handled too gently during a speech to law enforcement officials on Long Island, N.Y., on July 28.

Donald Trump threatened insurance companies’ ‘bailouts.’ Here’s what that means

July 31, 2017

President Donald Trump warned lawmakers he would cut off billions in federal funding that insurance companies receive through Obamacare if Congress fails to pass new health care legislation.

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Long Island speech to law enforcement

July 28, 2017

President Donald Trump spoke before an audience of law enforcement officials on Long Island, N.Y., about measures his administration is taking to crack down on illegal immigrant gang violence.

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s health care speech

July 24, 2017

With the future of the Senate health care bill hanging by a thread, President Donald Trump pressed all Republican senators to fulfill their party’s seven-year promise to get rid of Obamacare.

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