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Fact check: Violent crime in DC has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike
President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press ...
FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime
In justifying a federal tak over of policing in Washington, D.C, the president exaggerated or misstated many facts ...
CNN fact-checks Trump’s claims about crime in DC
President Donald Trump announced he is placing the Washington, DC, police department “under direct federal control” and ...
Fact Check: Oxford photo shows Boris Johnson with his first wife, not Ghislaine Maxwell
The first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been incorrectly identified in a photo online as Ghislaine ...
Fact Check: Red-brick house edited into Afghan family photo and falsely said to be a gift
An edited image purporting to show an Afghan journalist and his family outside a house in the UK has been shared online to ...
Washington Post's effort to court conservatives could drive away its liberal readers, ex-fact checker warns
In an interview with Fox News Digital, former Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler warned the paper's efforts to court ...
Fact Check: WNBA Did NOT Require All Its Women Basketball Teams To Install Safety Nets 'To Protect Against Dildo-Throwing Incidents'
Did the WNBA issue a requirement mandating all its teams to use safety nets separating the courts from the viewers to protect ...
Fact Check: No, Stephen Colbert didn't adopt girl who lost parents in Texas floods
The claim circulated days after a separate false claim that the late-night host adopted a pair of abandoned twins.
Fact check: Trump says jobs data revision after 2024 election was 'rigged'
PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...