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Jul 02

Fact-checking Trump’s remarks at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ on immigration and Medicaid

By Maria Briceño, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump toured Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Everglades ahead of its first expected detainees. Here is a fact-check of some of his remarks.

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Jun 27

What is thimerosal? What the research says about the vaccine preservative under fire by RFK Jr.

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

Thimerosal has been at the heart of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antivaccine activism for 20 years. Here’s what to know about the vaccine preservative and its removal from flu vaccines.

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Jun 19

Why possible U.S. attack on Iran could break a U.S.-Israel pattern of distance

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Over the first five days of Israel’s campaign, Iran experienced major losses — in leadership, military assets and nuclear facilities. Analysts said the attacks left the nation’s Islamic government at its weakest point in decades.

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Jun 15

Fact-checking unsubstantiated claims linking Gov. Walz to Minnesota lawmakers’ shootings

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

In 2019, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reappointed the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Minnesota state legislators to a workforce development board. Conservatives baselessly said that implicated Walz in the killing.

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Jun 12

What U.S. law says about Trump’s deployment of active duty troops to Los Angeles

By Gabrielle Lazor, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

The standard to dispatch the military to a state is not simply in the eye of the beholder. There are limited legal circumstances in which a president is supposed to deploy the military domestically.

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Jun 12

Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.

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May 23

How one UN leader’s mistaken timeline caused confusion about Gaza children’s starvation risk

By Grace Abels, PolitiFact

Gaza children face dire starvation risk, but a UN leader got the timeline wrong when he said 14,000 babies would die in “the next 48 hours.” The report he referenced projected such severe child malnutrition in the region over 11…

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May 17

Comey is under investigation for posting ‘86’ in reference to Trump. What does it mean?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

Former FBI Director Jamey Comey is under investigation after posting a photo of seashells spelling out “86 47”. Here’s a look at where the term "eighty-six" comes from and what it means.

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May 16

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that prescription drug price drops could happen ‘almost immediately’

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Experts said Trump’s action could potentially lower the cost of prescription drugs, perhaps by the 30 percent to 80 percent scale Trump said, but they cautioned that the order’s required procedural steps would make it far from an immediate fix.

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Apr 26

Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claim that environmental toxins cause autism

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed increasing autism rates to environmental toxins. Autism researchers told PolitiFact that lacks evidence and omits other important factors such as growing awareness that help explain the increase.

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