New York is at the top, or in second place, of various rankings of individual tax burdens. The Tax Foundation analyzed data from 2022 and found that New York had the highest tax b ...

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It was the latest in a string of baseless claims trying to connect DeGeneres to crimes involving children. PolitiFact found no files in the Justice Department’s Epstein Library that show evidence ...

Savannah Guthrie’s husband Michael Feldman is a communications consultant and North American co-chairman of FGS Global, an international public relations firm. Justice Department files don’t mention ...

One year after taking charge of the nation’s health department, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S.

President Donald Trump's campaign promise to revoke Temporary Protected Status for Haitians has hit a roadblock in court.

President Donald Trump said his immigration enforcement operation led to a crime drop in Minneapolis. In a pre-Super Bowl interview, NBC’s Tom Llamas asked Trump about immigration enforcement weeks ...

The varicella-zoster virus causes both chickenpox and shingles infections. Initially, the virus causes a chickenpox infection. If it reactivates later, shingles can develop. The chickenpox vaccine ...

In November 2025, the federal agency found, residential users in New York state paid average electricity prices of 26.49 cents per kilowatt hour in November 2025. The national rate that month was ...

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, whose congressional district stretches across much of Central New York, recently took credit for helping push forward a major semiconductor factory ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, who helps lead the state’s version of the Make America Healthy Again movement, recently said the Healthy Florida First initiative tested popular bread brands, ...