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Republicans are sharing a resurfaced clip of Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed discussing government control of private corporations — and they’re saying it shows his support for communism. El-Sayed “says he is in favor of a communist-style government seizure of private companies,” read an Aug. 12 X post from the Republican National Committee. The […]
President Donald Trump often says the media never acknowledges his administration’s wins, including what he considers progress on the Iran war. Trump listed “the essential Denuclearization of Iran” as one of many accomplishments in an Aug. 16 Truth Social post targeting a Fox News anchor. Has the U.S. denuclearized Iran? When we asked the White […]
President Donald Trump, who has spread falsehoods about voting by mail as he seeks to reduce it, cast such a ballot himself in the most recent Florida primary. Politico first reported Aug. 17 that Palm Beach County records showed Trump cast a mail ballot in the primary, which includes the race for governor. An Aug. […]
Ya sea en redes sociales o en la vida real, es posible que hayas escuchado a alguien — quizás incluso a candidatos en estas elecciones de medio término — hablar sobre centros de datos. Algunos les dan la bienvenida, otros los rechazan. ¿Qué son, entonces, estas instalaciones? Permiten realizar tareas cotidianas como ver series en […]
President Donald Trump said he’s instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises. He said this was “based on my very good relationship” with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. In an Aug. 16 Truth Social post, Trump said, “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs […]
Whether on social media or in real life, you might have heard someone — perhaps even political candidates this midterm cycle — talk about data centers. Some welcome them, others shun them. So, what are these facilities? They help power everyday tasks such as streaming shows, using Apple Pay, social media or asking a chatbot […]
After Taylor Farms de Mexico’s lettuce was identified as a potential source for a multi-state cyclospora outbreak, the company’s political dealings and contributions came under scrutiny. Social media users looked into donations the company and its leadership made and drew assumptions about how those influenced the Trump administration’s outbreak response. Here are some of the […]
President Donald Trump has called for big changes for how U.S. children are vaccinated. As he signed an executive order recommending a new schedule for vaccines, the president said the new plan would have a “huge impact on autism.” Credible studies have not linked vaccines to autism. Research, in fact, shows the opposite. Autism — […]
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate, accused his Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton, of giving a sex offender a light jail sentence. The lenient plea deal generated plenty of headlines and criticism, but Talarico drew even more attention to it in a May interview — accusing Paxton of doling out “Epstein-style […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration at the end of August to spend more time with her family after the birth of her second child. In an Aug. 12 Truth Social post announcing her departure, Trump called Leavitt a “a real leader in the White House” and “one of […]
PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking news organization, today announced its most extensive partnership network to date for the 2026 midterm election cycle. Building on a nearly two-decade legacy of public service, PolitiFact is joining forces with premier local newsrooms in battleground states to help voters navigate a complex landscape of political claims and online…
On a cool May evening, President Donald Trump stood at the under-construction Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and spoke with reporters about the project, which would become a major focus of his public remarks over the next month. Trump detailed the new “American flag blue” color and criticized former President Barack Obama’s efforts to improve the […]
Los huevos están contaminados con salmonela. Se han relacionado las bayas congeladas con un brote de E. coli. La lechuga iceberg y quién sabe qué más podría provocarte una diarrea explosiva. Algunas personas han afrontado esta avalancha de noticias alarmantes sobre la comida con humor negro. “Así que el pan tiene vidrio, la lechuga tiene […]
Unless you work in a laboratory or a university, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about different scientific research approaches. If nerdy technical phrases such as “cohort studies” and “randomized controlled trials” don’t mean much to you, odds are good you’re also unfamiliar with “gain-of-function” research. The term broadly describes experiments that genetically alter […]
