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In Trumpās Jan. 6 recast, attackers become martyrs, heroes
A cocktail of propaganda, conspiracy theory and disinformation -- of the kind intoxicating to the masses in the darkest turns of history -- is fueling delusion over the agonies of...

More action, less talk, distinguish Bidenās 100-day sprint
The card tucked in President Joe Bidenās right jacket pocket must weigh a ton. You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints...

Warp-speed spending and other surreal stats of COVID times
The U.S. effort in World War II was off the charts. Battles spread over three continents and four years, 16 million served in uniform and the government shoved levers of...

FACT CHECK: Trump clings to his core election falsehoods in CPAC speech
Donald Trump clung to his core election falsehoods in his first post-presidential speech, wrongly blamed wind power for the catastrophic power failures in Texas and revived a variety of the...

AP FACT CHECK: The senator and Trumpās misdialed phone call
Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial hit a snag when Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah objected to how Democrats characterized a phone call from the president when the Capitol insurrection...

AP FACT CHECK: Trumpās lawyers and the Constitution
Lawyers for Donald Trump stretched beyond the facts when they argued thereās an open-and-shut case that the Constitution bars impeaching former presidents. That question is not settled, though the weight...

FACT CHECK: Trumpās fiction in his goodbye to Washington
In his final remarks as president, Donald Trump tried to take credit for accomplishments of his predecessor and even those to come under President Joe Biden.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false claims, fuel on a day of chaos
President Donald Trump pressed his hopeless case for overturning the election to a crowd of supporters Wednesday, fueling the grievances of a mob that then stormed the Capitol and disrupted...

AP FACT CHECK: Trump conclusively lost, denies the evidence
In the face of conclusive evidence that he lost, President Donald Trump is claiming “I won.”

AP FACT CHECK: Trump and his familiar falsehoods
President Donald Trump says Mexico is paying for the wall (it isn’t), health care choice for veterans came from him (it didn’t) and his tax cut stands as the biggest...