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"The White House just announced that Trump only has four days left," one narrator said in a July 19 TikTok. "Trump’s cancer is getting worse — people are posting these pictures of his ankles. Swollen ...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer shared a chart July 17 on X showing lower- and middle-income Americans gaining the most from the new law’s tax provisions.

Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All ...

The Biden Promise Tracker monitors the 99 most important campaign promises of President Joseph R. Biden, elected in November 2020. Biden said his top priorities were fighting the coronavirus ...

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the ...

"California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government," Newsom said in a July 14 X post highlighting the interview. "Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide ...

The "Epstein files," refer to the federal government’s investigative files pertaining to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The two federal investigations into Epstein took ...

Tracking Trump’s first-term campaign promises: The Trump-O-Meter is PolitiFact's meter for tracking 102 promises President Trump made during his 2016 campaign. We are tracking Trump's second ...

On July 16, days after the first media investigations about sparse criminal backgrounds among the population were published, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., characterized the migrants at Alligator Alcatraz ...

"In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "ICE detention facilities and ...

As a candidate, Trump promised to lift taxes on overtime. The new law allows workers to deduct up to $12,500 in overtime compensation (for single filers) or $25,000 (for joint filers). This deduction ...