The newly-sworn in New York City mayor has expressed no intention to implement Shariah, and the Constitution bars anyone from ...

After the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump made false and misleading statements ...

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If you say something often or firmly enough, does that make it true? President Donald Trump repeatedly lied during his recent widely watched interview with 60 Minutes, a prominent fact-checker has ...

Fake videos of political leaders often go viral online. DW's fact check department analyses how content farms use ...

President Donald Trump promoted a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories during a late-night social media posting spree on Monday. Trump wrote or shared more than 150 posts on his Truth Social ...

Every once in a while, the "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out: "Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time," read one comment. "How about a little ...

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to US service members on an aircraft carrier stationed in Japan. Trump repeated his regular lie that he won the 2020 election ...

In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated a White House walkway with bronze plaques for each U.S. president ...

“Online scams, phishing attempts, and fraudulent schemes have grown in both volume and sophistication, creating a new front in the war on falsehoods.” The field of fact-checking is not static; it ...

Kennedy has downplayed the budget slashing, saying it's to get rid of bureaucracy. But reports of halted research and clinical trials demonstrate otherwise.