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Politics Jan 16
AP FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehoodDonald Trump falsely declared in a weekend rally that public health authorities are denying the COVID-19 vaccine to white people because of their race. The former president seeded racial resentments in remarks that twisted the facts on public-health policy and…
Health Nov 26
World races to contain new COVID threat, the omicron variantNearly two years into the pandemic, the world is suddenly racing to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on every continent.
Politics Jul 25
AP FACT CHECK: Trump is relentless in election fabricationsIn mid-May, partisan investigators hired by Arizona state lawmakers backed off their allegation that the state’s most populous county had destroyed its 2020 election database. Confronted with proof that the data still existed, they admitted everything was there.
Politics Jun 19
AP FACT CHECK: Putin’s twisted tale on rival; Biden GOP jabA look at the veracity of some statements from Biden’s week of diplomacy and his return to the domestic fray, as well as statements by Vladimir Putin at a Geneva news conference after his meeting with President Biden.
Nation May 31
WATCH: Biden honors war dead at Arlington, implores nation to healPresident Joe Biden has honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground.
Politics Feb 12
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s impeachment defense team glosses over his Jan. 6 tiradeA look at rhetoric from the Senate impeachment trial, where Trump is charged with inciting the siege of the Capitol before Congress affirmed his defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Politics Jan 20
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s fiction in his goodbye to WashingtonFalsehoods suffused President Donald Trump's farewell remarks Wednesday morning and the night before, though he was spot on with this: “We were not a regular administration.”…
Nation Jan 09
No surprise: Trump left many clues he wouldn’t go quietlyPresident Donald Trump left plenty of clues he’d try to burn the place down on his way out the door.
Politics Jan 06
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false claims, fuel on a day of chaosDrawing on baseless conspiracies, Trump unleashed a torrent of misinformation to supporters already convinced that his defeat was unfair.
Politics Dec 06
AP FACT CHECK: Trump floods rally with audacious falsehoodsPresident Donald Trump flooded his first postelection political rally with debunked conspiracy theories and audacious falsehoods Saturday as he claimed victory in an election he decisively lost.