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FactCheck.org says: FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022, but a Trump lawyer refused to allow them to review — let alone take — dozens of boxes from the Trump White House that were being kept in a storage area.
FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 vaccines were tested in large, randomized controlled trials before the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for emergency use.
FactCheck.org says: Sports medicine experts say there’s been no increase in sudden death among U.S. athletes since the COVID-19 vaccines became available, but anti-vaccine campaigners are spreading the false narrative that there has been.
FactCheck.org says: A White House spokesman told CNN, “The President does not support banning gas stoves – and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is independent, is not banning gas stoves.”
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that China reviewed the classified documents now under federal review.
FactCheck.org says: Every mail-in ballot in the county had a unique barcode and chain of custody documents to ensure security, election officials said.
FactCheck.org says: In Trump’s final year in office, illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the southwest border, were higher than the last full year before he was sworn in.
FactCheck.org says: Inflation has been high, but the modern-day record was set in 1980.
FactCheck.org says: While it's not yet known why his heart stopped, some experts say his condition is most likely due to a heart rhythm problem as a result of the impact from a hit to his chest during a tackle.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence the increase is being caused by nasal spray flu vaccines, as social media posts baselessly suggest. Flu vaccination may even indirectly prevent strep A.
FactCheck.org says: The FDA paper did not establish a link between the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots — and to date, other, more robust research has not identified such associations.
FactCheck.org says: Such claims are unsupported and based on flawed analyses.
FactCheck.org says: To date, the benefits of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination outweigh the risks, which include a rare but increased risk of myocarditis. Social media posts are citing a German autopsy study to suggest otherwise.
FactCheck.org says: Frank Biden, who served in the Army during World War II, died in 1999 -- when Joe Biden was a senator, not vice president.
FactCheck.org says: Journalist Grant Wahl died while covering the World Cup, and purveyors of vaccine misinformation have suggested that his death was caused by COVID-19 vaccination. He actually died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
FactCheck.org says: In fact, several of the deals resulting in the release of Americans held hostage or being wrongfully detained abroad came as a result of prisoner swaps during Trump’s time in office.
FactCheck.org says: The Associated Press, which provided the data to Fox, said the clip shows a brief overestimate of votes caused by human error.
FactCheck.org says: An international trade expert said an increase in U.S. exports means the U.S. is shipping more American-made things overseas, but not necessarily that the U.S. is not shipping jobs overseas.
FactCheck.org says: A blood transfusion from a vaccinated person doesn’t transfer the inoculation to an unvaccinated person. But high-profile purveyors of misinformation have been promoting the long-standing false claim that it does.
FactCheck.org says: 27.2 million people did not have health insurance at any point during 2021, according to the Census Bureau. The National Health Interview Survey placed the uninsured figure at 27.4 million for the first 6 months of 2022.