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As oil tankers largely sit stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump has boasted about the United States’…

Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting…

Graham Platner’s comments about rape more than a decade ago are the subject of a new ad attacking the Democrat…

After a gunman sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, some lawmakers said Secret Service agents foiled his…

Two days after an armed man tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, White House Press Secretary Karoline…

The day before state lawmakers met for a special session on redistricting, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed his proposed…

Social media users are posting about people who died or disappeared, claiming they are all scientists who knew secrets about…

FactCheck.org has won a National Headliner Award for online beat reporting of government and political coverage. Our series on “How…

Florida is experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, causing widespread wildfires and evacuation orders in large swaths of…

It’s a common, misleading refrain in anti-vaccine circles: Childhood vaccines may be unsafe because few if any have been tested…