President Donald Trump said a U.S. military assault succeeded in capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both facing U.S. charges related to cocaine trafficking under ...

Claims about deportations, the Department of Government Efficiency, and someone fainting in the White House were among the mistruths that kept PolitiFact busy in 2025 — and they featured in some of ...

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These images that appear to show a shirtless President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with young women aren’t real. Social media users shared purported photos of President Donald Trump and sex ...

Trump and Kennedy told Americans that taking Tylenol while pregnant may cause autism, even though decades of research doesn’t support that. There’s no known single cause for autism spectrum disorder.

In the days leading up to Neves Valente being located, social media users baselessly named a current Brown student, Mustapha Kharbouch, as the suspect. A former Brown University student shot and ...

Videos of a Catholic priest turning away ICE agents from his church aren’t real. AI-video detectors determine the footage was AI-generated. We also found the user that posted the clips sells courses ...

During his second presidential swearing-in ceremony, President Donald Trump raised his right hand and repeated the oath of office U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered. Trump did ...

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After the end of his speech at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Biden turned around and gestured toward the onlookers to his right, who rose to applaud him. He wasn’t trying ...

Did most Americans lose wealth, income under Barack Obama? In his new book, longtime Democratic pollster Stanley B. Greenberg argues that the 2016 election sowed the seeds for the demise of the ...