Fox News host CUTS OFF interview after James Talarico fact checks him

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H_XGe8zUSUk

 

A week of insane speeches #history #historyshorts #historyfacts #trump #usa

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afwVVUIEQhs

 

RFK Jr.’s claim that the US has the ‘sickest children’ in world history is wrong – PolitiFact

For most of human history, about half of children died before puberty, with disease as a major contributor. 

Childhood mortality has fallen significantly in the U.S. and globally in the last century, largely because of advances in sanitation and medicine, including vaccines. 

U.S. children have a significantly higher mortality rate than children in comparable high-income countries. Children’s chronic disease rates in the U.S. have increased in recent decades…

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/children-health-history-midterm-convention/

 

Trump’s top six falsehoods about 9/11 as 25th anniversary nears

US president often brings up al-Qaida attack that struck his home town New York City almost 25 years ago…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/trump-911-falsehoods 

 

Ground Zero construction crews, firefighter hoist: Fact-checking Trump’s 9/11 response stories – PolitiFact

Richard Alles, who was a New York Fire Department battalion chief at the time, told PolitiFact in 2019 that he had no knowledge of Trump being at Ground Zero, or bringing 100 or more workers to help. 

“There would be a record of it,” Alles said. “Everybody worked under direct supervision of the police and fire department and the joint commander for emergency services. Is there a chance he was ever down there by himself and I didn’t know it? It’s possible, but I know of no one who ever witnessed him there.”..

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/sep/08/donald-trump-9-11-response-firemen-ground-zero/

 

Mostly False: Sam Altman says growing a single almond equals 38,000 ChatGPT queries – PolitiFact

… Altman’s comparison relies on a relatively low estimate for ChatGPT’s water use, and a very high estimate for almonds’ water use. Available estimates show you’d need anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 conversational AI prompts to equal the 6 liters of fresh water used to grow one California almond. OpenAI hasn’t published enough information to verify its estimates of the total water usage for its prompts…

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/04/sam-altman/chatgpt-almonds-ai-california-water-useage/

 

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

A New York Times fact check pointed out that the second part of Rogers’s “incendiary statement” was false: it was not El-Sayed, but one of his supporters, the Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who once said that the US deserved 9/11, before retracting and apologizing for that statement seven years before he endorsed El-Sayed. 

 For his part, El-Sayed has clearly denounced the 9/11 attacks for years. In a recollection of that day written in 2021, El-Sayed wrote: “

I watched terrorists with names like mine attack my country in the name of my faith. Three thousand of my fellow Americans were killed in the craven terrorist attacks in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. The attack devastated me.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/michigan-senate-candidate-mike-rogers-osama-bin-laden

 

Maine drug overdoses are down. Is Vance right that Trump’s border policies are the cause? – PolitiFact

After two decades of rising deaths, U.S. fatal overdoses declined by more than 21% from 2024 to 2025. 

In Maine, fatal overdoses were about 20% lower in 2025 than in 2024. Overdose deaths also declined from 2023 to 2024. 

Drug policy experts point to multiple factors for the declines, such as less availability of fentanyl and increased access to the overdose-reversing medication naloxone, which predate the Trump administration’s border policies...

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/26/jd-vance/maine-fentanyl-drug-overdoses-decline-border/

How aligned is Angie Nixon with democratic socialists? Moody’s Florida Senate race attack misleads – PolitiFact

Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June. She said she doesn’t support all of its policies…

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/21/angie-nixon-florida-senate-ashley-moody-dsa/

 

Trump claims the MMR vaccine is “explosive” and needs to be separated.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D9xXEQfEbK4

 

Doctors don’t inject kids with soda bottle’s worth of vaccines. Trump’s claim is Pants on Fire. – PolitiFact

Doctors don’t inject kids with soda bottle’s worth of vaccines. Trump’s claim is Pants on Fire..

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/11/donald-trump/vaccine-soda-bottle-injection-children/

 

In Michigan Senate race, Mike Rogers falsely ties Abdul El-Sayed to Twitch streamer’s 9/11 comments – PolitiFact

Influencer and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker said “America deserved 9/11” in a 2019 livestream, and later walked back the comment. 

Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with Piker in April. El-Sayed said in an interview just before the campaign events that he does not believe 9/11 was justified...

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/07/mike-rogers/abdul-el-sayed-9-11-hasan-piker-michigan/ 

Trump gasses up US-Venezuela oil revenue, but ‘hundreds of billions’ is too high – PolitiFact

The highest credible figure for oil revenue since the U.S. took over Venezuela’s oil industry in January is $13 billion. 

That is roughly a tenth of the “hundreds of billions of dollars” in gains that President Donald Trump cited for each country. 

Trump’s estimate exceeds the entire gross domestic product of Venezuela several times over...

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/06/donald-trump/venezuela-oil-industry-us-gains/

 

RFK Jr. is wrong. Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S. – PolitiFact

Had Kennedy compared the U.S. with other high-income countries, he would have been more accurate, but he said the U.S. did worse than “any nation on earth.” …

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr/rfk-jr-is-wrong-peru-had-the-highest-covid-19-death-rate-not-the-u-s/

Did Fauci’s private diary entries contradict his public stances on lab leak, masks, school closures? – PolitiFact

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private COVID-era writings, providing a glimpse into Fauci’s thoughts on the pandemic response. On July 29, as senators questioned him on supposed discrepancies, Fauci took the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. 

 We examined claims that said Fauci contradicted himself on issues of COVID-19’s origins, school closures and mask mandates. Fauci’s diary entries revealed that he deliberated the developing information, and that his private stances largely aligned with what he said publicly…

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/03/fauci-diary-lab-leak-masks-school-closures/

 

Fact-checking Abdul El-Sayed, Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary – PolitiFact

Here’s a look at our fact-checks from debates and campaign messaging on topics such as polling, fundraising and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, the expected Republican nominee who lost his 2024 Senate bid to Democrat Elissa Slotkin...

https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/03/el-sayed-stevens-michigan-senate-democrat-primary/ 

 

Fact-checking Mullin’s claim that foreign adversaries can access voting machines – Politifact

Intelligence assessments and computer science experts have long flagged potential vulnerabilities in voting machines. 

Foreign enemies can potentially access voting machines’ hardware. But integrated security measures would make it difficult to pull off large-scale attacks. 

There has been no evidence that foreign adversaries have attempted to conduct such attacks in previous elections...

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/jul/22/foreign-adversaries-voting-machines/

 

Fact-checking the Trump administration’s count of 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls – Politifact

Let’s take a closer look at what the buzzy 250,000 figure could mean — and what it doesn’t…

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/jul/17/mullin-dhs-250000-noncitizen-voters-trump/

 

“What Trump ADMITTED Last Night Is WORSE Than You THINK!!” | Bill Clinton

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4dhfsbTAE

Five claims the president made in primetime address not backed up by evidence

…The Department of Homeland Security did not reveal its methodology for identifying the noncitizens and how confident they were in their assessment. The tool the Department of Homeland Security uses to flag noncitizens on the voter rolls is known to be inaccurate. 

Letters from the Department of Homeland Security sent on Thursday to Nevada and Pennsylvania obtained by the Guardian also suggest that the government is much less certain that the people identified are actually noncitizens. The Nevada letter says the department identified as many as 15,903 noncitizens who were registered to vote, including 8,576 whose name, date of birth, address and social security number matched that of a noncitizen in its files. It did not say how it flagged the remaining potential noncitizens. .

“These numbers are wildly speculative at best and the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t shared anything that backs it up,” Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic Nevada secretary of state, said in a statement…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-claims-primetime-address