RFK Jr.'s Falsehood-Filled CNN Interview - FactCheck.org

In a contentious interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false, misleading and baseless claims about the origins of Lyme disease...

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Trump's Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney Memo - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31 that placed the blame squ...

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Paul Distorts Fauci’s Diary Entry About COVID-19 and Wet Market - FactCheck.org

Sen. Rand Paul has pointed to a line in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary to claim that the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately “knew” in January 2020 that t...

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Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump has blamed improper forest management for Canadian wildfires whose smoke drifted into the Midwestern and Northeastern U.S. earlier this month. But climate change — and not a lac...

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One Big Beautiful Bill Not (Yet) Driving ACA, Medicaid Declines - FactCheck.org

Multiple Democratic lawmakers have claimed that 8 million Americans have lost healthcare coverage as a result of the Trump-backed budget reconciliation bill that passed a year ago, known as the One Bi...

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Democrats Overstate Role of Monitoring Program Change in Parasitic Outbreak - FactCheck.org

As a large outbreak of cyclospora has ravaged the Midwest, Democrats have frequently pinned blame on the Trump administration for terminating a monitoring program for the parasite. But the change to t...

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Trump's Distorted Venezuela Elections Claim - FactCheck.org

In claiming that American voting machines are vulnerable to manipulation, President Donald Trump provided an incomplete and distorted summary of the CIA's reporting about Venezuelan efforts to manipul...

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The Dubious Rags to Riches Promise of Trump Accounts - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that so-called Trump accounts, new federal investment and savings accounts for children, “could grow to hundreds of thousands of dollars” by the time childre...

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RFK Jr.’s Flawed Claims About Sperm Count and Fertility - FactCheck.org

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has baselessly tied alleged declines in sperm counts among teenagers to a “fertility crisis” or an “explosion in infertility.”

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No Clear Evidence Religion Is 'Bigger and Stronger' in U.S., Despite Trump Claim - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump said at a June faith conference that “religion is back in our country, bigger and stronger than it has been in many, many years” and “it’s going up." The statement is misleading...

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