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These images that appear to show a shirtless President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with young women aren’t real. Social media users shared purported photos of President Donald Trump and sex ...

In the days leading up to Neves Valente being located, social media users baselessly named a current Brown student, Mustapha Kharbouch, as the suspect. A former Brown University student shot and ...

Claims about deportations, the Department of Government Efficiency, and someone fainting in the White House were among the mistruths that kept PolitiFact busy in 2025 — and they featured in some of ...

Trump and Kennedy told Americans that taking Tylenol while pregnant may cause autism, even though decades of research doesn’t support that. There’s no known single cause for autism spectrum disorder.

Detaining people at ICE check-ins became part of the Trump administration’s strategy for mass deportations, in contrast with Trump’s comments that agents would pursue “the worst of the worst always ...

In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated a White House walkway with bronze plaques for each U.S. president. In an even sharper break with tradition, the plaques were written in a ...

Videos of a Catholic priest turning away ICE agents from his church aren’t real. AI-video detectors determine the footage was AI-generated. We also found the user that posted the clips sells courses ...

During his second presidential swearing-in ceremony, President Donald Trump raised his right hand and repeated the oath of office U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered. Trump did ...

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President Donald Trump shared a claim that former President Barack Obama received millions in Obamacare-related royalties before Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency stepped in to stop it. That ...

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