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Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a federal courthouse on Jan. 5.

Exploring the legality questions about Venezuela military strike

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Posted January 8, 2026 at 11:07am
President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the White House on Dec. 15, 2025.

The whoppers of 2025

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Posted December 25, 2025 at 8:00am
President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Penn., on Dec. 9. Trump discussed his administration’s economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living.

FactChecking Trump’s economic speech

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Posted December 12, 2025 at 1:56pm
A woman pushes a cart with groceries along Florida Avenue Northeast in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 22.

WIC becomes a political football in shutdown

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Posted October 17, 2025 at 10:54am
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally with members of the Democratic caucus about how a government shutdown would negatively effect health care coverage, on the House steps on Sept. 30.

Lawmakers’ health care, government shutdown claims

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Posted October 6, 2025 at 1:39pm
Lincoln Health Community Hospital in Hugo, Colo. as seen on Oct. 23, 2024.

Rural health fund falls short of estimated Medicaid cuts

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Posted September 19, 2025 at 1:06pm
Traffic backs up on southbound Interstate 805 near San Diego on May 3, 2025.

Q&A on the Trump EPA’s effort to curtail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions

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Posted August 22, 2025 at 12:31pm
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles as he arrives at the White House on June 9. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Recapping Trump’s deceptive tariff claims

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Posted August 15, 2025 at 10:27am
An image of President Donald Trump, marking his first 100 days in office, is displayed outside the Heritage Foundation, next to a Capitol Hill Exxon station, on May 5.

Are prices up or down? Parsing misleading claims by Trump and Democrats

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Posted August 1, 2025 at 3:22pm
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, center, testifies with other intelligence leaders before the House Intelligence Committee on March 26.

Fact-checking Trump, Gabbard comments on Iran nuclear capability

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Posted June 20, 2025 at 8:54am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference at the RNC after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday.

Walz and Johnson make misleading claims about bill’s impact on SNAP

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Posted June 13, 2025 at 7:00am
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., talk with reporters before a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on May 20.

Explaining Trump’s claim of a ‘68 percent’ tax increase

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Posted June 6, 2025 at 1:36pm
President Donald Trump, flanked by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., speaks to reporters before attending the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on May 20. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Checking the math on White House, GOP claims about ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

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Posted May 30, 2025 at 9:59am
President Donald Trump arrives on the south lawn of the White House on April 28.

Q&A on Trump’s prescription drug pricing executive order

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Posted May 16, 2025 at 11:04am
An image of President Donald Trump, marking his first 100 days in office, is seen on the Heritage Foundation next to an Exxon station on Capitol Hill on May 5.

The possible source of Trump’s false $2 gasoline claim

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Posted May 9, 2025 at 10:28am
President Donald Trump attends the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21.

Trump’s false claims about gas, egg prices

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Posted April 25, 2025 at 4:13pm
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29.

No sign of Texas measles outbreak slowing, contrary to RFK Jr.’s claims

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Posted April 14, 2025 at 3:08pm
President Donald Trump holds up a chart while announcing sweeping new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2.

Fact check: Trump’s misleading tariff chart

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Posted April 4, 2025 at 11:00am
A television camera broadcasts President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.

Fact check: Trump’s address to Congress

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Posted March 5, 2025 at 1:54pm
A “Save Medicaid” sign is affixed to the podium for the House Democrats’ press event to oppose the Republicans’ budget on the House steps of the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2024.

Fact check: The war of words over Medicaid cuts

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Posted March 5, 2025 at 12:55pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, is escorted by then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, and Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer from the Old Senate Chamber after his meeting with senators in the Capitol on Sept. 21, 2023.

Trump’s false and misleading Ukraine claims

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Posted February 21, 2025 at 12:35pm
Employees and supporters protest outside USAID headquarters on Feb. 3 after Elon Musk posted on social media that he and President Donald Trump would shut down the agency.

Sorting out the facts on ‘waste and abuse’ at USAID

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Posted February 10, 2025 at 1:55pm
Fire personnel respond to homes destroyed while a helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 7, 2025.

Fact-checking Trump’s blame claims about wildfire response

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Posted January 13, 2025 at 3:47pm
Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz take part in the vice-presidential debate at CBS Studios in New York on Tuesday.

Fact-checking the Vance-Walz debate

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Posted October 2, 2024 at 4:07pm
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has made claims aobut Haitian immigrants in Springfield that are unsupported by facts.

Vance’s misleading claim about immigrants and murders in Springfield, Ohio

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Posted September 23, 2024 at 12:50pm
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, shakes hands with former President Donald Trump before their debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

Fact-checking the Harris-Trump debate

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Posted September 11, 2024 at 8:03am
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her acceptance speech as the Democratic presidential nominee, at the party's national convention in the United Center in Chicago on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Fact-checking Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention

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Posted August 23, 2024 at 7:21am
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Fact-checking Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention

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Posted August 21, 2024 at 10:45am
President Joe Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 bill signing on the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 9, 2022.

FactCheck updates how the US has performed under Biden

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Posted July 26, 2024 at 1:16pm
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

Fact-checking Day 3 of the Republican National Convention

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Posted July 18, 2024 at 9:44am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

Fact-checking Day 2 of the Republican National Convention

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Posted July 17, 2024 at 4:08pm
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was among the speakers at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

Fact-checking Day 1 of the Republican National Convention

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Posted July 16, 2024 at 1:00pm
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump participate in their first debate of 2024 at CNN's studios in Atlanta on Thursday.

Fact-checking the Biden-Trump debate

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Posted June 28, 2024 at 7:56am
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address in the House chamber on March 7, 2024.

Fact-checking Biden’s State of the Union

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Posted March 8, 2024 at 2:04pm
Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, met in their only debate Wednesday in Salt Lake City.

Fact-checking the debate: Pence, Harris crossed the line on coronavirus

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Posted October 8, 2020 at 5:45am
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden speak during the first presidential debate at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Debate fact-check: False claims amid disorderly fracas

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Posted September 30, 2020 at 7:29am
President Donald Trump speaks Aug. 27 on the final night of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House.

RNC fact check: Trump speech filled with falsehoods

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Posted August 28, 2020 at 9:00am
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the third night of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore on Aug. 26.

RNC fact check: Pence distorts Biden’s positions

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Posted August 27, 2020 at 9:00am
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., accepts the party's nomination to be vice president during the third day of the Democratic National Convention.

DNC fact check: Few false claims punctuated by Trump’s wrong tweet

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Posted August 20, 2020 at 9:00am
Former President Bill Clinton delivers a speech by video feed as Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez watches from the podium in Milwaukee on Tuesday during the Democratic National Convention, being held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic.

DNC fact check: Clinton misleads on unemployment; Biden shares credit for auto bailout

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Posted August 19, 2020 at 9:00am
A screenshot of independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing the virtual Democratic National Convention on Monday.

Fact-checking the Democratic convention’s first night

By FactCheck.org
Posted August 18, 2020 at 9:05am