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FactCheck.org says: A judicial panel working with UNAIDS issued recommendations on laws related to consensual sex between adolescents. The report does not include any mention of the decriminalization of sex between adults and minors.
FactCheck.org says: Effective climate action can limit and reduce losses and damages, scientists agree. Warming also "could gradually be reduced again by achieving and sustaining net negative global CO2 emissions," the IPCC says.
FactCheck.org says: Other presidents have seen a greater percentage increase.
FactCheck.org says: The NRA convention in Indianapolis allowed attendees to carry guns, except for a two-hour period when former President Donald Trump and others spoke in a hall secured by the Secret Service.
FactCheck.org says: While serving in Congress, Ron DeSantis supported proposals that would reduce Social Security and Medicare spending, including raising the age for full eligibility.
FactCheck.org says: The request was for the FBI to review classified documents that Donald Trump turned over to the National Archives in January 2022 -- not other classified documents that were seized via a search warrant in August 2022.
FactCheck.org says: Excess deaths associated with the pandemic continued in 2021 and 2022, but there is no evidence COVID-19 vaccines caused this phenomenon. COVID-19 continued to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans in those two years.
FactCheck.org says: Experts told us it was unlikely Bragg had or could have an impact on crime trends, and crime data for Manhattan don’t match the GOP narrative.
FactCheck.org says: Flu cases were fewer in 2020-21 because of measures adopted to slow the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, like handwashing. But online posts spread the false claim that the dip in cases means COVID-19 was a hoax.
FactCheck.org says: The false claim originated in a fabricated article on a satirical website.
FactCheck.org says: Members of a minority party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario introduced a bill that would create temporary community safety zones around drag performance venues to prevent “acts of intimidation.”
FactCheck.org says: It is uncommon for first-time offenders of Class E non-violent felonies to receive jail time.
FactCheck.org says: Outside of long COVID or very severe cases, most research suggests COVID-19 doesn’t cause lasting damage to the immune system -- and nothing suggests anything as severe as an immunodeficiency.
FactCheck.org says: An edited 2022 video of Pres. Joe Biden makes the unfounded claim that he "is coordinating these Trump indictments." Biden's comments addressed international concerns about American democracy, not Trump's legal battles.
FactCheck.org says: Chansley was released early to a halfway house on March 28 because of his plea agreement and prison protocols.
FactCheck.org says: Trump re-posted a video of Bragg in a 2021 interview talking about Trump. But it was heavily edited. Left out were comments Bragg made, repeatedly, about not prejudging the case before seeing and weighing the facts.
FactCheck.org says: A folic acid supplement is recommended during pregnancy and prior to conception because it reduces the risk of neural tube defects in babies.
FactCheck.org says: A 2016 tweet from the late comedian Norm Macdonald has been altered to falsely claim that he’d commented on the possibility of a transgender school shooter. A search of Macdonald’s account shows he didn't write that.
FactCheck.org says: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us that “any undercount” in overall drug overdose deaths “should be relatively small.”
FactCheck.org says: The photos are authentic photos of Fetterman taken years apart. Differences in the photos are due to camera focal lengths and lenses, experts said.