In July, City Manager Bryan Heck cited a higher number of 15,000 to 20,000 Haitians arriving in Springfield over the last four years in a community of just under 60,000. Most of the immigrants who ...

That number has come up multiple times in the past year in posts spreading misinformation. We’ve previously fact-checked and found false claims that Biden announced a $6,400 government subsidy for all ...

CBS exposed “the fact” that Kamala Harris’ crowd sizes are inflated because her campaign bused hundreds of attendees to her New Hampshire rally. A spokesperson for Yankee Line told PolitiFact the ...

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety’s "Hurricane Helene: Fact vs. Rumor" webpage similarly said that "donations are not being confiscated by state and federal officials," and government ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, sat down for an interview Oct. 16 with Fox News’ Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier, the latest in her home-stretch media blitz.

Once running mates, former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump parted ways after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. Pence, a lifelong Republican, ...

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Now, researchers say there’s evidence that China and Russia are amplifying false social media claims about the storms, as they did after other disasters. Although research on foreign interference can ...

Trump was shot in the ear at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, whom a Secret Service sharpshooter then killed. After a second assassination attempt on Trump, ...

Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 5 storm when it was still over water, but by the time it hit Florida’s central west coast, it was a Category 3. It sustained winds of 120 mph at landfall ...

In addition to state laws, at least one court has interpreted federal Title IX protections to apply to trans athletes, though the law is not settled. A ruling from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Former President Donald Trump didn’t post that he hopes the United States obliterates Israel. He said he hopes that it obliterates Iran if the country’s "terrorist proxies" assassinate him.