About 42 million people receive money through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, sometimes called food stamps. The U.S. Agriculture Department told states in an Oct. 10 letter that if the ...

President Donald Trump said his new ballroom ‘won’t interfere with the current building.’ Full Flop! Even as the federal government grappled with a weeks-long shutdown and foreign policy concerns, the ...

Paul’s figure might not translate directly to the recent boat strikes, experts said, since the U.S. could have had intelligence about those specific vessels. PolitiFact contacted the Coast Guard about ...

Every December, PolitiFact looks back on the sum of our fact-checking year and names the most consequential falsehood as our Lie of the Year. The 2024 Lie of the Year went to Trump and Vice President ...

Following the September assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have shaped their political agenda by blaming the left for political ...

A: Small amounts of aluminum are sometimes included in vaccines as adjuvants, or substances that boost the body’s immune response to the vaccine to ensure protection from infection. That boost means ...

As the Posse Comitatus Act has been interpreted by the courts, civilian law-enforcement officials cannot make "direct active use" of military personnel, including using federal military forces, over ...

An Oct. 14 Washington Post analysis found that Florida has the highest number of people receiving the enhanced credits, which could result in the state bearing the biggest blow, relative to its ...

Trump’s Oct. 13 address focused on his administration’s efforts to produce an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which included a Gaza ceasefire and the release of 20 Israeli hostages, 250 ...

MSNBC footage circulating on social media is real and depicts Boston’s Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally. Similar aerial views of the protest aired Oct. 18 on four Boston-area television stations and one in ...

The Trump administration said it found money to continue a food program for low-income families amid the government shutdown, but a Democratic lawmaker countered that it’s the p ...

The Trump administration has provided no evidence about the type or quantity of drugs it says were on five boats the U.S. military struck off the coast of Venezuela. The lack of information makes it ...