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FactCheck.org says: That’s something Talarico, a Texas state representative, did say during a March 4, 2021, episode of the “Activist Theology” podcast. But the ad leaves out what came before and after that comment.
FactCheck.org says: The main driver of rising measles cases in the U.S. is falling vaccination among U.S. children. We couldn't find evidence that the largest recent outbreaks are related to illegal immigration.
FactCheck.org says: A major reason Maine fell to last in U.S. News & World Report's state high school rankings is because the state education department stopped giving U.S. News access to Advanced Placement performance data for Maine high …
FactCheck.org says: Instead of actual tax savings, the president may have been referring to the average amount some tipped workers were able to deduct from their federal taxable income in 2025. The actual savings would be a fraction of tha…
FactCheck.org says: Sen. Susan Collins was one of three Republican senators who voted against passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, and she cited the legislation’s many changes to Medicaid as the main reason.
FactCheck.org says: Extensive research has failed to turn up a link between vaccines and autism.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that splitting up the MMR vaccine would be safer or save lives. Death from MMR vaccination is exceedingly rare.
FactCheck.org says: El-Sayed said in April that the 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S. was not justified. Instead Rogers' Senate campaign has pointed to past comments made by liberal political commentator Hasan Piker, and said that El-Sayed…
FactCheck.org says: Trump did not inherit the worst inflation in history. And while there was a big one-month drop in the rate of inflation in June, the annualized inflation rate was not lower than when Trump took office.
FactCheck.org says: Lyme disease and RSV have long affected humans, and there's no evidence they came from a lab.
FactCheck.org says: It is not possible to eliminate fires in the boreal forest of Canada, and experts have said that large-scale forest management there is infeasible.
FactCheck.org says: The surveillance that ended is different from the system used to detect outbreaks. Several food safety experts said it is unlikely to have played much of a direct role in the current outbreak.
FactCheck.org says: There are not data showing how sperm counts of teenagers in the general population compare with sperm counts of men in their 60s. Evidence is mixed on whether sperm counts have fallen in the population over time..
FactCheck.org says: Trump was reacting to a paper by a group that was not part of the U.N., and the paper updated a range of scenarios exploring climate change, in part reflecting the progress the world has made on moving away from fossil …
FactCheck.org says: Fraudulent overpayments in Social Security are a small fraction of that program’s total costs.
FactCheck.org says: The two oncology drugs reviews, while fast, were not records for drug review speed. The 310-days figure represents an average review speed for new drugs overall in 2025.
FactCheck.org says: Energy experts told us that gasoline prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the national average price is back to where it was before the conflict began.
FactCheck.org says: A report from an anti-abortion nonprofit found a serious adverse event rate of 10.93% following mifepristone abortion, but the report is missing key information on its methods, and a variety of other studies found a muc…
FactCheck.org says: Vaccines are always tested for safety, but not always with a saline placebo. Safety information also accumulates over time with use as vaccines are monitored.
FactCheck.org says: The claim is based on counting deaths after COVID-19 vaccination that were not necessarily caused by the vaccines and multiplying them by a flawed "underreporting factor."