John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a...
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump teamâs false comfort on schools, coronavirus
President Donald Trump's aides are misrepresenting the record on kids and the coronavirus as they push for schools to reopen.
Trumpâs bluster doesnât beat a virus, calm a restive nation
Over three and a half years Trump exhausted much of the country, while exhilarating some of it, with his constant brawls, invented realities, outlier ways and pop-up dramas of his...
Analysis: Fact checking recent statements from Trump on protests, Seattle, health care
President Donald Trump set off plenty of reactions like that when he peddled a baseless conspiracy theory about an activist who landed hard on the ground, and then in intensive...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump wonât admit failures in coronavirus testing
President Donald Trump was displeased when the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress joined in a statement declining to use coronavirus testing machines from the White House for lawmakers. The...
AP FACT CHECK: Trumpâs baseless theories on coronavirus
Lysol is for toilet bowls and countertops, not human consumption. The company that manufacturers it felt compelled to emphasize the danger of ingesting it after President Donald Trump’s musings about...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false hits on watchdogs, voting fraud
A look at the president's recent distortions on key elements of the pandemic response and a few other political subjects.
AP FACT CHECK: The Dems on pandemic, Social Security, more
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sparred one-on-one Sunday in a Democratic debate held without a live audience in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. The growing...
Debate fact check: Democrats implore fact checkers to back them up
They flailed their arms, talked over each other and at one point called for backup, asking fact checkers to come to their rescue.
Fact check: Examining claims from the Nevada Democratic debate
Six Democratic presidential candidates sparred in a spirited debate in Las Vegas. A look at how some of their claims on Wednesday stack up with the facts.