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FactCheck.org says: The WHO doesn't have authority to order countries to take certain measures when responding to a pandemic or other public health emergency. The group can only make recommendations.
FactCheck.org says: A Jan. 6, 2017, intelligence assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” in an attempt to help elect Donald Trump and earlier intelligence assessments concluded Russia did not su…
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. had not recorded a surplus in June since 2016 – but the country has had several surpluses in other months since that time.
FactCheck.org says: An analysis projected 42,500 deaths a year. The extra 8,800 Sanders is claiming are deaths from provision that is expiring and is not part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act itself.
FactCheck.org says: Border Czar Tom Homan has been repeating the misleading claim that there are "over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the streets of this nation.” That number includes legal immigrants, not just those …
FactCheck.org says: It’s not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
FactCheck.org says: He exaggerated the number who the CBO said would still retain health coverage under a House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and his remark may leave the mistaken impression that he was addressing the CBO’s es…
FactCheck.org says: While at higher doses thimerosal can be harmful, there isn’t evidence that in the small amounts in vaccines thimerosal poses any safety risk, other than rare allergic reactions or temporary redness, swelling or itchines…
FactCheck.org says: Babies and children can contract hepatitis B during birth or from caregivers, and the vaccine is safe and highly effective. There is no safety reason to delay vaccination.
FactCheck.org says: U.S. strikes didn’t completely destroy the sites or Iran’s nuclear capabilities, according to experts we spoke with and a classified U.S. intelligence report.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. has collected more than $80 billion in tariff revenue for the current fiscal year – but not for any two-month period in that time. Economists predict that higher tariffs will increase inflation in the coming mo…
FactCheck.org says: That's not what Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said. On the third day of protests, McDonnell did say his city police officers were “overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there engaged in this type of ac…
FactCheck.org says: There's no evidence of problematic conflicts of interest or that the group inadequately scrutinizes vaccines.
FactCheck.org says: President Donald Trump sent National Guard troops to Los Angeles to address what he has described as a city “under siege” by protesters opposed to his immigration policy, but state politicians and one federal court have…
FactCheck.org says: Experts say there is no credible evidence that any safety concerns were "concealed."
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. Constitution gives Congress and states — not the president — the authority to set the dates for federal elections. That doesn’t change under the bill.
FactCheck.org says: That figure comes from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which said as many as 11 million are in households “at risk” of losing some or all of their SNAP assistance under the bill’s work requireme…
FactCheck.org says: The bill’s main target is able-bodied adults who don't work, but other groups would lose coverage due to paperwork burdens and other provisions in the bill, health policy experts say.
FactCheck.org says: The Tax Policy Center estimates that, on average, Americans’ taxes would rise about 7.5% if the 2017 tax cuts are allowed to fully expire at the end of the year. The president may be referring to the percentage of Ameri…