Impress your friends at this year’s Fourth of July party with these five surprisingly true stories from American history.

Mike Rogers worked for pharmaceutical companies. He was never a registered lobbyist, and there’s no proof he received $14 million to lobby for the pharmaceutical industry. Michigan U.S. Senate ...

The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status for about 330,000 Haitians who live and work in the U.S., which will likely lead to their deportation. Haitians with ...

Opponents of birthright citizenship say it leads to “birth tourism.” Researchers estimated that 5,000 to 26,000 foreign pregnant women travel to the U.S. annually to give birth, a tiny slice of annual ...

Social media users are sharing many videos of buildings collapsing and people trapped under rubble, saying it shows the destruction of two massive earthquakes in Venezuela. Althou ...

President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling that states can ban transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The ruling ...

In 1763, Great Britain gained control of Florida from Spain and split it into two separate territories — East Florida and West Florida.  Florida, and other British territories outside the 13 colonies ...

The stock market has gone up during President Donald Trump’s second term, but his $30,000 figure for average 401 (k) gains is not supported. Fidelity Investments data shows that during the majority of ...

According to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, Washington had at least four sets of dentures made with metals, including lead, gold and tin. Some sets used teeth from cows and horses and ivory ...

Florida Republicans billed their party’s June 27 gathering in South Florida as the "Sunshine State Showdown." But for U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the event’s headliner and GOP frontrunner for governor, ...

Some social media users misleadingly compared two different elections — one in Colombia and another in California — to say that cheating is happening in the Golden State. The ...

Still, the fact-checking community’s losses so far have been incremental. The number of active fact-checkers around the globe by mid-2026 was 437, the Reporters’ Lab found — only 27 below its all-time ...