The video showed Leonardo Ferreira, an immunologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Hollings Cancer Center. Ferreira did not die in the plane crash and dismissed such claims in an ...

Trump’s figures appear to have no basis in fact. Government statistics show the number of drug overdose deaths per year is hovering around 100,000 to 110,000, with opioid-related deaths at about ...

Kamala Harris did not vote for a law that taxed service workers’ tips. Tips have been federally taxed for decades.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, signed into law by President Barack Obama, did not legalize propaganda in the U.S. The law, which has no effect on privately owned news outlets, eased U.S.

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Democrats have started wielding the word "weird" against former President Donald Trump and his 2024 running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio. But X owner Elon Musk hasn’t threatened to ban users who use ...

A social media video claims to show Boston Red Sox fans giving a standing ovation to outfielder Jarren Duran’s return from a two-game suspension for using a homophobic slur. But the video was altered.

A Facebook post claims to have photographic proof that Elon Musk, X’s owner and Tesla’s CEO, dined with a "robot girlfriend," but that image was generated with artificial intelligence. The image shows ...

U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has said during the 2024 campaign he does not support banning abortion nationally. During a 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, McCormick’s ...

Former President Donald Trump is holding a press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. PolitiFact is fact-checking claims and providing context during the event.

Tim Walz signed a law that requires schools provide access to menstrual products in bathrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12. The law does no ...

Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed at a recent campaign rally that Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to cut Medicare by $273 billion.