Politics Mar 23 AP fact check: Senators misrepresent Ketanji Brown Jackson on abortion By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press
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. By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Ben Fox, Associated Press
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… By Calvin Woodward, David Klepper, Associated Press
Politics Sep 25 EXPLAINER: As Arizona election ‘audit’ ends, new ones begin The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election in a battleground state lost by former President Donald Trump is coming to an embarrassing end in Arizona, but their efforts are cranking up elsewhere. By Marc Levy, Associated Press
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. By Calvin Woodward, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
Jun 19 AP FACT CHECK: Putin’s twisted tale on rival; Biden GOP jab By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Frank Bajak, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Feb 12 AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s impeachment defense team glosses over his Jan. 6 tirade By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press A 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. Continue reading
Jan 06 AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false claims, fuel on a day of chaos By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Drawing on baseless conspiracies, Trump unleashed a torrent of misinformation to supporters already convinced that his defeat was unfair. Continue reading
Dec 06 AP FACT CHECK: Trump floods rally with audacious falsehoods By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press President 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. Continue reading
Nov 28 AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts military role in vaccines By Robert Burns, Associated Press From the get-go, President Donald Trump has miscast or exaggerated the military’s role in his administration’s crash program to accelerate the development, production and eventual distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Continue reading