When President Donald Trump claimed to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas in a Wednesday interview that “I’m getting – starting to get great polls on the economy,” Llamas quickly pushed back by noting ...

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The Minnesota Department of Human Services has launched a fact-checking website aimed at addressing what officials describe as misleading and false claims about Medicaid fraud in the state.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has made a series of claims about the economy, a topic that should feature prominently in his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 24. The post A ...

In a lengthy “60 Minutes” interview, President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims about nuclear weapons testing, inflation and military strikes in the Caribbean Sea. He also repeated ...

Six years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still makes headlines. Social media users and politicians across the political spectrum engross themselves in stories — true and ...

An AI-generated image of U.S. authorities flanking Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been used by some social media posts to depict Saturday’s capture of the Latin American country's leader. The ...

German soldiers left Greenland after a short, pre-planned mission, contrary to online narratives that said they withdrew early because of the U.S. president’s threat to impose tariffs on European ...

The president has made misleading statements about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal, breakfast and gasoline and about prices in general. By Linda Qiu Ahead of Thanksgiving and amid frustration among ...

Video footage of the fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers contradicts Trump administration officials’ statements about the event. Since Pretti’s Jan. 24 ...