Politics Jun 06 As Americans contend with mass shootings and high gas prices, Jan. 6 committee to begin public hearings A congressional committee's hearings on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection are coming up, and the public has been told to expect revelations.
Nation May 08 Supreme Court leak further erodes public trust in government WASHINGTON (AP) — Is there a new American motto: In nothing we trust? By lots of measures, most in the U.S. lack much confidence in large institutions and have for years. Congress? Two big thumbs down. The presidency? Ehh. Americans…
Politics Mar 23 AP fact check: Senators misrepresent Ketanji Brown Jackson on abortion Republican senators painted Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as hostile to anti-abortion views, twisting words from a legal brief she co-signed years ago as evidence she would rule broadly against abortion opponents.
Politics Mar 22 AP fact check: Republicans skew Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on crime Republican senators characterized Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial views as extremist and soft on crime, using her confirmation hearings to air a line of conservative grievances that relied at times on distortions of her record.
Politics Mar 19 AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side. In the court of law, judges ask questions to get answers. That…
Politics Jan 16 AP FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehood Donald 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 variant Nearly 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 fabrications In 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 jab A 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 heal President Joe Biden has honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground.