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Senators took control of their chamber’s impeachment trial this week, submitting questions to the Democratic House managers and President Donald

Sports betting is big business in the United States, and the Super Bowl is, well, the Super Bowl of sports gambling.

Don’t expect a fast recovery from hoaxes and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. As of Jan. 30, the virus has

Editor’s note: PolitiFact is analyzing the presidential candidates’ stump speeches. Following our summary of the speech’s main themes, we present

Hours after his attorneys closed their case for him to remain in office, President Donald Trump jetted up to New

Lawyers for President Donald Trump closed their arguments in the Senate’s impeachment trial Tuesday, paving the way for senators to

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Our job, most days, is to fact-check what candidates say about themselves and their opponents. That

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he’s not too young to be the president and actually is

WATERLOO, Iowa — Despite polling below the top tier of Iowa caucus hopefuls, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., drew a near-capacity

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for “big structural change” to help average Americans, rather than the richest

We’re in Iowa! PolitiFact sent a team of reporters to the Hawkeye State to fact-check campaign events of Democratic presidential candidates ahead

MUSCATINE, Iowa — Demcratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promoted his ideas for rebuilding the American economy in a Jan. 23

A new White House video lauds President Donald Trump for accomplishments he’s made during his time in office — and

Editor’s note: PolitiFact is analyzing the Democratic presidential candidates’ stump speeches. Following our summary of the speech’s main themes, we

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his campaign have attacked former Vice President Joe Biden over his record on Social Security

After a weeks-long delay, the process of impeaching and removing President Donald Trump is moving forward again. On Jan. 15,

At a campaign rally in Milwaukee, President Donald Trump touted the American airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. He

Democrats on the debate stage in Iowa said President Donald Trump’s renegotiated trade deal with Mexico and Canada is marginally

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, ideologically aligned on the left, split sharply at the seventh Democratic presidential primary debate in

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President Donald Trump and his team of national security officials have offered shifting explanations for the airstrike that killed top

Heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, driven in part by the U.S. airstrike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani, brought

Soon after news broke of Iran’s missile strike on two military bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq, false photos and

President Donald Trump said U.S. troops in Iraq had not been harmed by Iranian missile strikes launched in retaliation for

Iran has retaliated for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq Jan. 2. Iranian

In a tweet that gained wide notice internationally, President Donald Trump warned that an Iranian attack on U.S. targets could

Soon after the death of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani in an American drone strike, the website for the U.S.

Infrastructure looked like it might be a big priority under President Donald Trump. A signature promise of his 2016 campaign

The same morning Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., renewed his call on the Senate floor for expanding gun background checks, there

Democrats on the November debate stage in Atlanta turned the spotlight to an issue affecting millions of Americans when they

In 2019, we fact-checked many statements about the impeachment of President Donald Trump and claims by and about the Democrats

It may come as a surprise to Americans laboring under mountains of student debt, but the overall household debt burden

Make no mistake about it, Social Security is deeply intertwined with the fabric of America’s well-being. Its checks to retirees

The disparity in how much women make compared with men comes up often in the political discourse, tagged with a

Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren dueled over campaign finance during the December Democratic presidential primary debate, presenting two contrasting

PolitiFact reporters and editors are live fact-checking Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate. Follow along with our coverage below. See Figure 1

The U.S. House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment on near-party-line votes, making Donald Trump the third impeached president

On the eve of the House’s expected vote on impeachment, President Donald Trump wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy

Lie of the Year: Donald Trump’s incessant claim that whistleblower got his Ukraine call ‘almost completely’ wrong A look back

Three Pants-on-Fire claims from President Donald Trump have taken first, second and third place in the readers’ poll for most significant

President Donald Trump has deployed an array of claims to undercut the substance, process and key figures of the Democratic-driven

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the Saudi shooter at the Pensacola naval station had no constitutional right to have

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is running a highlight reel of President Donald Trump’s awkward-to-prickly interactions with world

House Democrats have settled on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump — the first alleging abuse of power

The shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a Saudi Arabian aviation student put a spotlight on the federal government’s

Below is the text of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Resolved, That Donald J. Trump, President of the

A reader asked, “How come Joe Biden is on film bragging about getting the Prosecutor investigating Burisma fired and fact

PolitiFact will soon announce our Lie of the Year — the most significant falsehood of 2019, as chosen by our

You asked, we answered: Our reporters investigated questions from readers about the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. In

Terrorist attacks in the United States have not been confined to one part of the country or motivated by just