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Sen. Bernie Sanders said Elon Musk, a newly minted trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. Social Security taxes max out at $184,500 for everyone, including Musk.
On ‘Love Island USA’, Kenzie said, “I was in nursing school, bro,” explaining why she thinks 20/30 vision beats 20/13. But her 20/30 vision score indicates slightly below-average vision and Caleb’s 20/13 vision is better than hers.
Yandex is one of Russia's leading technology companies. The Russian state has long manipulated the information Yandex users receive in their searches, shaping a distorted picture of reality. Those who buy and install Yandex products outside Russia may not realise they may be subjected to ideological conditioning through Russian propaganda.
Two U.S. Senate candidates in Massachusetts — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat, and attorney John Deaton, a Republican — faced off in a June 16 debate that we fact-checked.
Don’t fall for these pictures and video purporting to show the recent B-52 bomber crash in California. Social media users are sharing AI-generated images and plane crash footage from 1994.
Republicans are trying to undermine the blue-collar image of Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, claiming his oyster farm is “fake.” That’s False.
Religion, drones, and “piracy” claims: pro-Kremlin narratives target Armenia’s European path, invert Russia’s threats against NATO, and attack sanctions enforcement against the shadow fleet.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that his administration has “cut” by 97% “the flow” of illegal drugs entering the U.S. “by water, by ocean and sea.” But available federal data do not support that claim.
Donald Trump said he is the first president to achieve “real peace” with Iran. Experts we contacted said what we know so far about the memorandum of understanding does not amount to a peace agreement.
UFC fighter Josh Hokit used his post-fight interview at the White House to give new life to a long-debunked claim: That former first lady Michelle Obama is a man. All the supposed evidence to support that has been debunked.
Angst over America’s economy and its place in the world is casting a shadow on the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. That’s not new; similar concerns also hovered over the bicentennial in 1976.
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The White House will host UFC fights on Trump’s 80th birthday. How did other presidents celebrate their birthdays?
President Donald Trump said the 2026 World Cup has sold more tickets than ever before. Raw numbers provide support for that claim, but they ignore the tournament’s expanded match schedule, available seating and ticket pricing controversies.
Op 5 mei plaatste het online magazine Save The Planet Society een bericht op Instagram waarin werd beweerd dat de vermogenskloof vandaag groter is dan in Frankrijk vlak voor de Franse Revolutie. Die revolutie begon in 1789, toen steeds meer Fransen zich verzetten tegen de enorme ongelijkheid tussen arm en rijk en tegen de macht van de koning en de adel. Het zou uiteindelijk leiden tot het einde van de monarchie.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said people who live near data centers are paying as much as 267% more for electricity compared with five years ago. But the number she cited refers to wholesale prices, not residential bills.
In an appearance in New York state, President Donald Trump said Bruce Blakeman’s victory as Nassau County executive was a sharp break with history, because “no Republican wins in Nassau.” That overlooks a lot of electoral history.
President Donald Trump waded into the contentious "right to repair" your own auto debate, but he recounted a wildly inaccurate anecdote to bolster his support for consumers.
A North Carolina lawmaker’s effort to amend the state’s constitution to define life as beginning at fertilization genera
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began filling with water on June 4 following maintenance work that President Donald Trump called a "big project." Trump claimed that "the Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed." That exaggerates the amount spent by previous administrations.
Maine’s Graham Platner said his Republican rival Sen. Susan Collins votes with Trump 95% of the time. That stems from an analysis of 2025 votes but omits her high-profile votes against Trump and bipartisan ranking.
Once eradicated in the U.S. using sterilized insects, screwworms are back. Now Google wants to release millions of sterilized mosquitoes in Florida and California. What’s the buzz about sterilizing insects?
President Donald Trump walked out of a sit-down interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” That happened after he made, or repeated, a number of false and unsupported claims — some of which Welker pushed back on.
Are headlines about infectious disease outbreaks making you nervous about your summer vacation plans? Here’s how to stay healthy while traveling — and what to do if you get sick.
President Donald Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that California’s pace of ballot counting is proof of cheating. That’s Pants on Fire.
Viral social media posts said a California mayoral election update added about 24,000 votes and none went to candidate Spencer Pratt. A media outlet lag briefly showed candidates’ totals out of sync, but Pratt received votes in every update.
A video of people fleeing and screaming while a building’s ceiling collapses does not show a June earthquake in the Philippines. It was from a different earthquake two years ago.
An image of a blue-haired person supposedly stuffing a ballot box is not a “California voter.” It’s AI-generated.
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman didn’t concede the race as of June 7, despite what social media users said. The California primary elections aren’t “rigged” either; election results change as officials count votes.
Republican Sen. Jon Husted and Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown each said the other received donations in Ohio’s Senate race from people linked to deceased sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. But some context is needed.
In the Iowa Senate race, an ad from Republican candidate Ashley Hinson says the Democratic candidate Josh Turek supports “sex changes for kids.” The cited law dealt with parental notification in schools, not medical care for minors.
Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein -- by way of donations from those with some link to the late convicted sex offender.
CBS News denied rumors that podcaster Joe Rogan is under consideration for a “60 Minutes” correspondent role.
Legislative efforts to make daylight saving time permanent year round got a boost with support from President Donald Trump, who criticized the twice-yearly clock switching as cost-prohibitive. But there is no strong evidence that Trump's solution -- switching permanently to daylight saving time -- would provide the economic boost Trump suggests it would.
A clinical trial showed a pill almost doubled survival for people with stage four pancreatic cancer. Can patients access the medication now? How long until the FDA can approve it? Here are some answers.
Cannabis has been legal for medical purposes in New York state since 2016 and for recreational use since 2021. Has it already caught up to coffee in use? Data shows coffee consumption rates are higher.
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow said the state spent more than $2.5 billion on corporate incentives since 2019, and the SOAR fund created no jobs. The statement leaves out context on job creation and funding timelines.
The House and Senate have advanced war powers resolutions aimed at curbing President Donald Trump from continuing the war in Iran. Can a 53-year-old law make a difference? What steps would be required to end the war?
In a May 16 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump cited updated climate change scenarios to misleadingly claim that experts had “admitted” prior climate change projections “were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” The regularly scheduled revision reflects in part the progress the world has made on moving away from fossil fuels.
Opponents of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax plan say the Republican measure would defund essential public services or cause new taxes as Florida’s local governments try to cover the revenue shortfall. Would it?
The Trump administration says it's working to reduce the amount of fraud in federal government programs. However, fiscal experts have said that those reductions alone won't "save" the Social Security program or result in "a balanced budget," as President Donald Trump has falsely suggested.
In his U.S. Senate race, Democrat James Talarico said his Republican competitor Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave a lenient plea deal in a child sex abuse case. After a mistrial, prosecutors in Paxton’s office offered a misdemeanor plea deal.
Donald Trump said his cognitive test score showed “extreme intelligence.” Experts said the test he’s referring to doesn’t study intelligence; it looks for signs of dementia.
The U.S. military continues striking boats that it says are involved in narcotrafficking, increasing the death toll to 205 people. Here’s a round up of fact-checks about the attacks.
We fact-checked Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
A National Mall concert series was supposed to celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday. It instead devolved into controversy and recriminations, with a majority of the named performers bowing out. What happened, and what’s next?
Social media users shared a video of workers removing President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. It was generated with artificial intelligence.
Three Democrats vying for the U.S. Senate nomination in Michigan sparred over foreign policy, campaign finance and state business development during a May 28 primary debate. We fact-checked their statements.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax plan would raise the state’s threshold for taxing primary homes from $50,000 to $250,000 by 2028. We fact-checked DeSantis on the percentage of Florida homeowners who would not have to pay taxes.
Should you be taking vitamin supplements? Before you spend your money, follow these five steps to find out whether you really need it, or if your body will simply flush it out.
• Russia tries to shift blame for its deadly strikes on Kyiv. • Transnistria is used as a tool to destabilise Moldova. • Ukraine is being falsely accused of trying to drag the Baltic states into war with Russia. The post Victim-blaming Kyiv, pressuring Moldova, and drone disinformation appeared first on EUvsDisinfo.
A new ad from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton included a clip of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico saying the U.S. southern border should have “a giant welcome mat out front.” It omitted the part in which he said, “and a lock on the door.”
In defending his record on measles, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. twice said during a recent Senate hearing, “We promote" the measles vaccine. While it’s true that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend the shot, Kennedy has rarely made an unequivocal endorsement of it, even as the nation has seen an alarming rise in measles cases.
As President Donald Trump delves into several projects to remake the monumental core of the nation’s capital, we fact-check statements he’s made about renovations he’s ordered for the National Mall’s Reflecting Pool.
Is Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico a vegan, as Republican rival Ken Paxton said? The public evidence doesn’t back up the vegan claim.
Maryland election officials are mailing replacement ballots to voters after a vendor error led to some voters receiving a mail-in ballot for the wrong political party's primary in June. However, in criticizing the mix-up, President Donald Trump distorted the facts to claim that 500,000 “fake,” "corrupt" and "illegal" ballots had been mailed to ensure “Democrats win.”
According to Danish state authorities, there were no major foreign influence campaigns to speak of in the lead-up to Denmark’s March 2026 parliamentary election. Local fact-checkers and journalists tracked pro-Russian narratives and fringe propaganda channels, but nothing resembling a broad, coordinated campaign with significant reach emerged. Monitoring and analysis by Defense Innovation Highway and OpenMinds of part of the Danish online information environment during the campaign reached similar conclusions.
Dating apps promise connection, chemistry, and maybe even love. For Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services, they also offer something else: data, emotional vulnerability, and a private channel to manipulate targets.
The Federal Aviation Administration released a new staffing target for air traffic controllers that’s 2,000 people less than its previous goal. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association disagrees with the staffing model.
Amid efforts to restrict mifepristone access, we looked at what studies say about the medication. Decades of research on medication abortion shows serious complications are rare.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Cubans the island’s 22-hour blackouts aren’t because of the U.S. oil blockade. The Cuban government’s mismanagement is a key factor, but the blockade has worsened the problem.
The Food and Drug Administration in recent months has approved a small number of drugs quite quickly under a new expedited review program. But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overstated the impact of the program by making misleading comparisons to the pace of drug approvals in the past.
Ukrainian strikes on Russian targets are falsely framed as cover for domestic political scandals. Europe is again portrayed as standing in the way of peace. Old “Ukrainian biolabs” conspiracy theories make a comeback.
Huidige Skepsisvoorzitter Eric-Jan Wagemakers bespreekt in de Skepter (2015-2), in zijn artikel met de titel “Statistiek van het gezonde verstand”, een probleem van de significantietoets. Namelijk dat de significantietoets geen rekening houdt met de alternatieve hypothese, alleen met de nulhypothese.
After the indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, President Donald Trump’s supporters compared his approach to Cuba with a photo of former President Barack Obama at a baseball game with Castro. Here’s how the presidents’Cuba policies differ.
A Justice Department document blocks audits of President Trump’s past tax filings ‘forever.’ Yes, it’s unprecedented. No, it’s not easily reversed.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., says New York households face a $4,200 tariff hit. But that estimate is based on previous, higher tariff levels.
A TV ad attacking incumbent Texas Sen. John Cornyn for supporting "Muslim mass immigration" misleadingly cites a 2021 quote from Cornyn about certain Afghan refugees and claims that "Cornyn has a special place in his heart for radical Islam."
US officials announced charges against Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old brother of the late-Fidel Castro, for his involvement in a 1996 aircraft attack that killed four men, including three Americans. Here’s what it could mean.
President Donald Trump and the Justice Department say a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is nothing new or unusual. But a 2011 settlement fund the Justice Department highlighted differs from the new one in at least four key ways.
Social media claims that Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, the teen suspects in the San Diego mosque shooting that killed three people, were a transgender couple are not rooted in evidence.
Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act continues to erode as some customers struggle to make premium payments,
By 2026, Russia’s digital control strategy has evolved from blocking platforms like Telegram to building its own: MAX, a state-backed messenger with over 55 million users. More than an app, MAX integrates messaging, verified digital IDs, and state services—effectively embedding surveillance into daily life. Though not legally mandatory, schools and agencies now rely on it, making alternatives impractical. The Kremlin isn’t just censoring; it’s redesigning the digital environment to ensure compliance by default.
Studies link regular exposure to secondhand aerosols from e-cigarettes and vape pens to health problems. More research is needed, experts say.