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[ad_1] FactCheck.org has won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists. This is our fourth win in the fact-checking category and our fifth award from SPJ overall. Our winning entry of three stories by Senior Writer D’Angelo Gore and Deputy Director Robert Farley provided fact-checks about several of President Donald Trump’s tariff claims. Among the claims examined were the misleading calculations used for “reciprocal tariffs” the president sought to impose on nations around the world, the misleading justification for higher tariffs on imports of European goods, and the repeated, false insistence that the…

[ad_1] “I thank my fellow candidates, in all their glory. Lord Buckethead, Elmo, and others. Forgive me if I don’t identify them all,” said then–Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his victory speech in 2019. On stage beside him stood a man with a bucket on his head and another dressed as the famed red puppet from Sesame Street. Since the 1960s, novelty candidates have been a common fixture of British politics. At the 2024 British general election, a record 4,515 candidates stood across the United Kingdom, an increase from 3,327 in 2019. Among them were space warriors, AI avatars, and…

[ad_1] The American understanding of Iran is a triumph of geopolitical minimalism, writes M. Reza Behnam, reducing a country with millennia-old legacy as a sophisticated and culturally vibrant civilization to a holy trinity of stereotypes. Tehran’s Azadi freedom monument. (Shayan Hamidi /Unsplash) By M. Reza BehnamZ-Network Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to an American colleague:  why do figures like Donald Trump continue to get elected?  With his signature measured calm, he offered a chilling truth.  He suggested that Americans have not felt history’s harsh winds blow…

[ad_1] Artificial Intelligence is now a part of the modern world, and the genie will not be going back into the data center bottle anytime soon. Are there any positives that we can find in the push to digitize the world and improve our productivity? Ruckus seems to think so, and it’s allowed him to grow his operation in ways never before possible, after TNT Radio imploded in early 2024, and we were both out of a job. Can we tame the AI monster and make it work for us, or do the Amish have the right idea about technology?…

[ad_1] The much-maligned Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officially shut down on July 4, marking the end of a turbulent year for the federal workforce. The Elon Musk brainchild was always supposed to be in place only until the semi-quincentennial, according to the executive order that remade the U.S. Digital Service into a federal hound dog to sniff out waste, fraud, and abuse. So what now? DOGE, Elon Musk’s brainchild, shut down on July 4. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor watched DOGE’s investigations and cuts for almost a year. He was a quieter…

[ad_1] Coming back from a far-flung vacation? Traveling abroad on a business trip? Just happen to find yourself within 100 miles of a U.S. border? I regret to inform you that U.S. Customs and Border Control (CBP) agents can search your phone, laptop, GPS system, smartwatch, or other electronic devices for virtually no reason. No particular suspicion of criminal activity is needed. No probable cause. No warrant. At “the physical border, the functional equivalent of the border” (such as an incoming or outgoing flight at an international airport), or “the extended border,” border policy is to allow device searches “with…

[ad_1] Iran, Iraq, Irate. What a world! It couldn’t be much stranger, could it? And by the way, what is it about the Middle East? Since the Gulf War of 1990-1991, it’s just never really ended, has it? Who cares that the region is halfway around the world from Washington, D.C.? Yes, the U.S. fought Iraq there from 2003 to 2008. And recently, of course, Donald Trump has gone after Iran. If you want to spread out just a bit more, you could toss in this country’s relatively brief war in Libya and its almost endless one this century in…

[ad_1] The Strait of Hormuz continued to be a flashpoint in the breakdown of the memorandum of understanding—signed last month by the U.S. and Iran to lay the groundwork for a final peace deal—and in the resumption of hostilities between the two countries, as the Iran War entered its 136th day on Monday. The U.S. bombed Iran and Iran retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases Sunday evening, for the fourth time in the past seven days. U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East, claimed American forces had targeted “military air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone…

[ad_1] Is it an energy boost that helps people power through the day? A way to ease opioid withdrawal symptoms? Or a dangerous drug?  When it comes to kratom, it depends on who you ask.  Kratom is a tree native to Southeast Asia and its leaves are used to make an herbal extract or supplement with the same name. It is sold in the form of teas, tonics, capsules and tablets.  Kratom has multiple active ingredients. In small amounts, it can be a stimulant; in larger amounts, it acts as an opioid-like sedative. Public health officials have raised concerns and…