Politics Sep 12 AP FACT CHECK: Trump vs. Trump on virus; Biden missteps Explaining his deceptive assurances about the pandemic, President Donald Trump suggested he was doing what Winston Churchill had done, soothing the public in a time of danger. That’s not how it went down in World War II.
Nation Sep 05 AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his…
Politics Aug 22 AP FACT CHECK: What the Dems didn’t say, and what Trump did Joe Biden and fellow Democrats spun an assortment of facts to their benefit in their national convention. Meanwhile President Donald Trump flooded the zone with falsehoods, some so apparent that anyone with access to the internet could see the folly…
Politics Aug 15 AP FACT CHECK: Trump skews record on Biden-Harris, economy President Donald Trump greeted the Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this past week with a litany of distortion and falsehoods, raging against cases of voting fraud where they didn’t exist and declining to quash conspiracy theories…
Politics Jul 19 AP FACT CHECK: Trump bending facts on virus, Biden, economy President Donald Trump clung to the false notion that the coronavirus will just “disappear,” made incorrect claims about a top government expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and again insisted that Americans are getting all the COVID-19 tests they need — all…
Nation Jul 11 AP FACT CHECK: If he’s said it once, he’s said it 100 times COVID-19 testing would be the envy of the world, the economy would be on the cusp of roaring back, the threat would be receding in a pandemic that has sickened more than 3.1 million Americans and killed more than 134,000.
Health Jul 07 U.S. government launches campaign to reduce high suicide rates Known as REACH, the campaign is the core part of a $53 million, two-year effort announced by President Donald Trump to reduce suicide. Starting Wednesday, digital ads will hit the internet with the key message that "suicide is preventable."…
Politics Jun 17 WATCH: Trump announces roadmap for the PREVENTS Task Force on veteran suicide prevention President Donald Trump is unveiling a long-awaited national plan to stem a persistently high number of veteran suicides. He is proposing wide-ranging initiatives from firearm safety and wellness programs at workplaces to added barriers near railroads and bridges.
Politics Jun 13 AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s law and order and misinformation Trump's week of law and order rhetoric came with heavy doses of misinformation as he stretched to blame unrest on radical leftists and to put three loaded words — “defund the police” — in the mouth of a Democratic rival…
Nation Jun 06 AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s alternate reality in time of anguish The White House, tweeting as an American institution, not Trump's personal account or campaign, posted social media disinformation to make people think leftists were stockpiling rocks to commit terrorist attacks in the United States.