In his first public speech since leaving office, former President Donald Trump delighted his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference with numerous false and misleading claims, many of them criticisms of his successor.  The post FactC

A computer-rendered image has been mischaracterized on social media posts as a photo taken from Mars, purportedly showing Earth, Venus and Jupiter in vertical alignment. Although the same image was previously debunked in 2012, the claim resurfaced af

The Biden administration has made no changes to COVID-19 testing policies for either U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. But a claim circulating online falsely suggests that the administration has stopped testing de

Several high-profile conservative figures -- including the Texas governor -- have wrongly placed the blame for power outages in Texas on wind turbines. The post Wind Turbines Didn’t Cause Texas Energy Crisis appeared first on FactCheck.org.

President Biden this week boasted on Twitter about his promise to administer 100 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office, "With the progress we're making I believe we'll not only reach that, we'll break it." But as some critics have not

In this video, we explain how accumulating scientific evidence ultimately led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its guidance on the wearing of face coverings to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The post SciCheck Video: The Facts

President Biden overstated the impact of raising the federal minimum wage to $15, claiming that "if you're making less than $15 an hour," and working 40 hours a week, "you’re living below the poverty wage." The post Biden’s Minimum Wage Exaggeration

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy misleadingly argues that federal aid to state and local governments is unnecessary because state and local tax receipts were "the highest... in American history" in the third quarter. The post McCarthy Misleads

In a press conference in which they called on President Biden to use his executive authority to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren misstated a r

A two-hour video, claiming to prove that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from former President Donald Trump, has been viewed tens of thousands of times online and aired on the cable channel One America News Network. But the video rehashes

In the debate over competing rescue plans, those in both political parties have miscited a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office to make their case. The post Both Sides Spin CBO Report in COVID-19 Relief Debate appeared first on FactCheck.

In calling for a “thorough investigation” into “election fraud,” Republican Sen. Rand Paul distorted the facts about a Wisconsin policy that was introduced by Republicans and put in place before the 2016 general election. The post Paul Cites Distorti