The United States and Israel bombed Iran Feb. 28, with President Donald Trump accusing Iran of building nuclear weapons that threaten U.S. allies and could "soon" reach the U.S. Iran retaliated by ...

When PolitiFact asked the White House to square Trump’s remarks about obliteration with Witkoff’s comment about Iran being a week away from having bomb making material, the White House referred us to ...

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PolitiFact live fact-checked President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. See our fact-checks in reverse chronological order below or read our roundu ...

A White House TikTok that appeared to show U.S. men’s hockey Olympian Brady Tkachuk using an expletive to insult the Canadian men’s hockey team was edited using artificial int ...

Inflation has eased somewhat during Trump’s second term, but "plummeting" is an exaggeration. The year-over-year rise in prices for January 2026 was about 2.4%. That’s lower than the year-over-year ...

In a move that reflected the party’s divisions, Democrats offered a range of responses to President Donald Trump’s Feb. 24 State of the Union address. Some skipped Trump’s s ...

President Donald Trump inflated his administration’s success in reducing inflation at his Feb. 24 State of the Union address, falsely claiming he inherited "record levels" from President Joe Biden.

For the "Trump accounts," babies born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, will receive $1,000 from the federal government. Parents can make additional deposits but aren’t required to. RELATED: ...

After a blizzard hit New York City Feb. 22, a viral Instagram post said, in protest of the city’s inefficient snow removal, a man crafted a car entirely of snow and received a parking ticket for the ...

A viral audio clip claims to reveal a victim’s testimony of abuse by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on an island owned by sex offender Jeffrey ...

Former President Joe Biden had significantly expanded the use of humanitarian parole, a way that people can come into the U.S. legally to temporarily live and work. Trump revoked the two programs that ...