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PolitiFact says: West Virginia lost residents over two timeframes: between the 2020 census and a 2024 population estimate, and between 2023 and 2024 population estimates. But it was not the only state to do so. Six other states lost pop…
PolitiFact says: Large, publicly traded health insurers have seen stock price increases over the past 15 years, in one case exceeding 1,000%. Information that President Donald Trump appeared to be citing shows stock price increases gene…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump has not reduced the federal deficit by 25%. The deficit for fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30, was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal year 2024 deficit. Considering only the portions of fiscal year…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump referred to a Walmart package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients that cost $55 in 2024 and costs $40 this year — a 27% decline. The 2024 and 2025 dinner packages are not identical. The $15 price d…
FactCheck.org says: $1.5 trillion is the total estimated cost over 10 years of the spending bill that Democrats had put forward at the beginning of the government shutdown. It is not the amount for health care coverage for people in the U.…
PolitiFact says: Zohran Mamdani has never said he seeks to implement Shariah in New York City, or anywhere in the U.S. An expert told PolitiFact that Mamdani’s support for gay rights and decriminalizing sex work are the "antithesis" of …
FactCheck.org says: The scientific literature shows that serious adverse events following medication abortion, including following telehealth abortion, are rare.
PolitiFact says: New York City mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa are listed twice on the ballot because two separate parties nominated them. Candidates and political parties in New York have operated under this system —…
PolitiFact says: The most basic measure of year-over-year inflation has risen on President Donald Trump’s watch. After stripping out historically volatile food and energy prices, the inflation rate under Trump has declined modestly. Wag…
PolitiFact says: Overall, the ad’s message aligns with most of Reagan’s remarks, which, over five minutes, expressed a dim view of tariffs. Reagan said he believed that in the long term, tariffs would lead to trade wars and hurt America…
PolitiFact says: In a briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about President Donald Trump’s priorities for renovating parts of the White House campus. Leavitt responded that the ballroom is his top prior…
FactCheck.org says: A single Danish study showed boys circumcised in medical settings were around twice as likely to be diagnosed with a form of autism called infantile autism by age 5. The study included no data on Tylenol.
PolitiFact says: MSNBC footage circulating on social media is real and depicts Boston’s Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally. Similar aerial views of the protest aired Oct. 18 on four Boston-area television stations and one in New Hampshire.
FactCheck.org says: News reports, police and fire department accounts, and a federal judge have all determined that protests are concentrated in the immediate area of the ICE facility and that they are largely peaceful.
PolitiFact says: At least two U.S. presidents — Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter — personally conducted negotiations that led to peace agreements between warring nations. Both negotiations resulted in Nobel Prizes for some of the par…
PolitiFact says: The investigative media outlet ProPublica published documents that show three Trump administration Cabinet members signed mortgages classifying separate houses as their principal residences. But the documents required t…
FactCheck.org says: Experts say there is no direct evidence linking SSRIs to mass shootings. SSRIs do not have black box warnings for homicidal ideation.
PolitiFact says: Under federal law, vaccine manufacturers benefit from significant lawsuit protections, including being shielded against suits about design defects. These protections are paired with a fund that is empowered to make comp…