When will the COVID-19 vaccines get full FDA approval? The short answer — at least for one vaccine — is sometime between now and January 2022. July 30, 2021 Mvalverde
Suspended from social media, Donald Trump has found a new, old way to spread falsehoods He's headlined political conferences, hosted rallies, held a press conference, given media interviews and issued written statements. July 16, 2021 Mvalverde
Central America’s prevailing conditions and how they drive people to the US Crisis conditions caused by wars, displacement, scarcity and a legacy of corporate colonialism have hampered daily life to a point of desperation. June 8, 2021 Mvalverde
Removal of Liz Cheney from House leadership is only one piece of GOP coalescing around the ‘Big Lie’ Just how far will the GOP go to defend Trump and advance the falsehood that he was cheated out of reelection? May 17, 2021 Mvalverde
President Joe Biden’s first speech to Congress, fact-checked For the most part, Biden’s statements traced to estimates from think tanks or government data. In some cases, he exaggerated or left out information. April 30, 2021 Mvalverde
How often do police confuse firearms for stun guns? PolitiFact wondered how it happens, what precautions would keep it from happening and how courts have ruled in similar cases. Here’s what they found. April 16, 2021 Mvalverde
What we know about COVID-19 testing for migrants at the southern border Overcrowding at southern border facilities has raised concerns that migrants might get sick with COVID-19 since they might not have space to distance. April 13, 2021 Mvalverde
Fact-checking Joe Biden’s first White House press conference Some of Biden's comments about migrant families and voting proposals needed a fact-check. Other claims proved accurate when we looked into them. March 29, 2021 Mvalverde
A look at President Biden’s plan to reunify families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump By some estimates, more than 5,500 families had children separated from their parents. An ACLU attorney says 1,000 families remain separated. February 16, 2021 Mvalverde
Fact-checking the first day of Trump’s second impeachment trial While points of law and the Constitution can be argued, they generally don’t lend themselves to fact checks. But here's some context. February 10, 2021 Mvalverde
The new COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy, explained Under a new distribution strategy, all current vaccine supplies will be available to states, rather than holding back supplies for second doses. January 13, 2021 Mvalverde
Donald Trump’s long, false list of things Joe Biden would ban, abolish or destroy Trump often says that Biden wants to ban or destroy various things important to Americans. His rhetoric is often misleading, wrong or baseless. October 19, 2020 Mvalverde
Fact-checking Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s head-to-head town halls It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, Trump refused and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. October 16, 2020 Mvalverde
Fact-checking misinformation about President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis PolitiFact fact-checked several widely shared falsehoods about President Donald Trump’s positive coronavirus diagnosis. October 5, 2020 Mvalverde
