The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with artificial intelligence-generated slop that ...

For 17 years, PolitiFact has made an annual tradition of sorting through the year’s rhetoric to identify the statement, collection of statements or theme that had the most significant impact. The ...

PolitiFact editors pick the official winner. This year, PolitiFact is spotlighting three stories that exemplify the consequences of falsehoods in 2025, which we’re calling our Year of the Lies.

Some people in the comments commended the unidentified bishop for his bravery to stand against law enforcement. Other commenters wrongly identified him as Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María ...

In his roughly 100-minute speech, he talked about his love of the word "tariff" and zeroed in on the "fake news" reporters covering the event. At times, supporters chanted "four more years," although ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

This isn’t the first time Trump has promised Americans a windfall from his tariffs, which represent the most extensive levies on foreign products seen in the U.S. in decades. In November, Trump ...

Trump isn’t the first to overstate new investments. President Joe Biden said in 2024 that his bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act had attracted $640 billion in private investments; economists told ...

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to disqualify Alina Habba as the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said former President Joe Biden signed pardons with an autopen, a mechanical device that uses a robotic arm with an attached pen. When Trump installed portraits ...

Walz sought in 2022 to blame the judge for the resumed payments, prompting the judge to issue a statement that the governor was wrong, and the education department had resumed the payments on its own, ...

Hochul, backed by the State Legislature, has extended existing taxes for wealthy corporations and individuals, as well as health insurance companies. She has also cut taxes for the middle class. Other ...