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Trump said warnings about AI are from “the same people” who warned of climate change and advocated investigations of him. Alarms over AI are not confined to one group of people, and the loudest warnings lately have come from industry leaders.
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President Donald Trump banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. His defenders say that’s no different than what Joe Biden did in 2023. Is that true?
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Abdul El-Sayed said President Trump’s tariffs cost Michigan families $5,619. That’s based on tariffs paid by Michigan importers, but products are sold across the U.S., so Michigan households don't bear the total cost.
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Zach Lahn says Rob Sand “wants to raise your taxes by $7,500 per year.” Sand says he would not reverse Iowa’s recent income tax cuts. We looked at Sand’s positions and the math behind Lahn’s claim.
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No te dejes engañar, la presentadora de Univision, Adamari López, no llamó a ICE para arrestar a empleados latinos. Estos videos fueron generados con inteligencia artificial.
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Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed said Mike Rogers voted nine times to deny healthcare to 9/11 first responders. Rogers opposed the landmark 2010 bill that devoted billions to first-responder funding, but his voting record needs some context.
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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s TV ads show footage of older Americans and a clip of Rep. Mike Collins saying, “Get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce.” But Collins wasn’t telling older Americans to stop receiving the benefit.
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AI leaders called for a slowdown of the technology’s development. What regulations are lawmakers proposing?
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An ad from a Democratic super political action committee about Maine’s U.S. Senate race tries to distinguish between Troy Jackson and Sen. Susan Collins on Medicaid cuts, but misleads.
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North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper said election officials “removed that ballot box” from North Carolina A&T, a historically Black university in Greensboro. While the campus had a site in 2024, it has never had one in midterm elections.
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An ad from Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Rep. Byron Donalds says Democratic nominee David Jolly wants to raise taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security. This distorts Jolly’s position and omits that Florida has no state income tax.
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During the Republican midterm convention, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. has the “sickest children in the history of the world.” Although U.S. children have higher chronic disease rates than in the past, children are more likely to survive childhood now than in the past.
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Recounting his response after the 9/11 attack, President Donald Trump said he brought workers to the site and was carried off by firefighters during an evacuation. We looked into the facts behind Trump’s stories.
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Oncologists are hoping to use personalized mRNA vaccines to treat cancer. It involves creating a vaccine that teaches the body’s immune system to recognize cancer cells and try to kill them.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said you’d need to send 38,000 ChatGPT messages to use the amount of water needed to grow one California almond. That skews the estimates for both almonds’ and AI’s water demands.
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Un acuerdo inusual entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela podría sacudir la industria petrolera mundial, si se mantiene. Pero este acuerdo de miles de millones de barriles de petróleo no bajará pronto los precios de la gasolina.
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Seeing headlines about the sweetener xylitol being linked to risk of heart attack and stroke? It's more complicated than that, and may have to do with the xylitol our own bodies produce rather than what we eat.
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Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly said 70% to 80% of Floridians don’t want new data centers in the state. Recent polls largely back that up as public opinion about data centers sours.
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Maine Democrat Troy Jackson said Republican Sen. Susan Collins voted no when it came to stopping Trump tariffs. Jackson ignores that she voted four times in 2025 against tariffs.
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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said his opponent in Georgia’s Senate race, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, is one of the most active cryptocurrency traders in Congress. Available evidence shows that Collins has a record of consistent and frequent trading that outpaces most of his colleagues.
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A Republican ad linked Sherrod Brown’s immigration votes to a fatal Ohio crash. Brown has backed less restrictive immigration policies, but there’s no evidence those policies are to blame in the crash that killed the Soposki family.
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Campaign ads in several midterm elections portray Democrats as “radical” on transgender youth medical care and sports participation. Republicans are leaning on a strategy that proved successful in 2024.
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An X post claims that North Carolina “processed” 1 million duplicate voter registrations, noting that NC Gov. Josh Stein won his 2024 race by 828,000 votes. The duplicates had no bearing on any election results, officials say.
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El congresista Byron Donalds, candidato republicano para gobernador de Florida, dijo que los brotes de sarampión en EE.UU. fueron causados por la "inmigración ilegal" durante la presidencia de Joe Biden. No hay pruebas de eso.
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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, said U.S. measles outbreaks were caused by “rampant illegal immigration” during President Joe Biden’s administration. There’s no evidence to support that.
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The updated 2026-27 flu vaccine is available in pharmacies and doctors' offices now, but the latest COVID-19 vaccine wasn’t as of Aug. 26. If it follows last year’s FDA timeline, the COVID-19 shot could be approved any day.
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Vice President JD Vance credited the Trump administration’s border policy for a decrease in Maine fentanyl overdoses. But overdoses began declining during the Biden administration and researchers cite other factors.
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There is no evidence imported beef sold in the U.S. is coming from slaughtered horses. The USDA inspects imported meat, and horse meat imports are banned in the U.S. for human consumption.
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Since the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, he’s been using other legal avenues to build back a trade policy that’s similar to his initial plan, experts say.
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Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, said Democrat Sherrod Brown voted while senator to provide several types of benefits for people in the U.S. illegally. Brown’s votes would not have increased federal benefits to people in the country illegally.
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In Florida’s Senate race, GOP incumbent Ashley Moody tried to tie opponent Angie Nixon to the Democratic Socialists of America platform. But Nixon doesn’t align with the group in supporting open borders, defunding the police or noncitizen voting.
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President Donald Trump said he has presided over “the essential denuclearization of Iran.” But Iran likely still has materials and machinery that can be used to make nuclear weapons, undercutting Trump’s claim.
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An ad supporting U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds in Florida's governor race says his Democratic opponent David Jolly supports "gender changing surgeries on kids." The ad deceptively edited Jolly’s remarks.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to open city-owned grocery stores, but an ID will not be required to shop there.
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Guess who voted by mail in the Aug. 18 Florida primary? The most influential critic of mail ballots: President Donald Trump. Earlier this year he said “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.” We rated that Pants on Fire!
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What are data centers? What does it mean when one opens near you, for electricity, water and more? Here’s how it all works.
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Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said his Republican opponent Mike Rogers “kicked off” the opioid epidemic. Rogers pushed policy to expand opioid access for chronic pain patients, but it didn’t launch a national crisis.
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Florida Democratic Senate candidate Alexander Vindman said his opponent, GOP Sen. Ashley Moody, transferred $10 million in taxpayer money for children’s Medicaid to a PAC. That’s partially accurate but leaves out important details.
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After releasing 2021 texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson falsely said the COVID-19 vaccines were linked to an 82% miscarriage rate. The notion comes from a misreading of one 2021 study and ignores numerous later studies.
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President Donald Trump said the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could possibly be “quite lethal.” More than 50 years of data undercuts that claim.
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When signing an executive order that seeks to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccinations, President Donald Trump said some vaccinations are as big as a “bottle of soda.” In reality, it would take more than 1,000 injections to fill a soda bottle.
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Did you hear the viral claim on social media that Abdul El-Sayed called for ‘Sharia in America’? That distorts his 2022 speech to CAIR.
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As voters express concern about rising prices ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump said prices are “all coming down now.” That’s Mostly False.
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In the Michigan U.S. Senate race, Republican Mike Rogers said his Democratic opponent believes America deserved 9/11. Here’s what Abdul El-Sayed actually said.
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Byron Donalds, a Republican candidate in the Florida governor’s race, said a new state law ensures people’s electric bills won’t go up because a data center opens. That’s not guaranteed, experts said.
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Is Ed Markey in the Epstein files? A 2015 email says a lobbyist tied to Epstein briefed Markey on the case of a Senegalese politician who was Epstein’s friend. But there’s no evidence Markey worked with Epstein or knew of his involvement.
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El presidente Donald Trump ha citado “cientos de miles de millones de dólares” en ingresos petroleros desde que EE.UU. detuvo al ex líder venezolano Nicolás Maduro en enero. Los datos sugieren que Trump exagera.
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President Donald Trump has cited “hundreds of billions of dollars” in mutually beneficial gains since the U.S. arrested Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in January. Data suggests Trump’s figure is inflated.
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Federal regulators are allowing Zyn to advertise some of its nicotine pouches as having a “lower risk” of causing mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer and other conditions compared with cigarettes. Some experts are concerned.
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