Inflation has eased somewhat during Trump’s second term, but "plummeting" is an exaggeration. The year-over-year rise in prices for January 2026 was about 2.4%. That’s lower than the year-over-year ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump ’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on ...

Most major network and cable news channels will broadcast Trump’s address. The White House’s YouTube channel will also stream ...

Drug seizures tell us only how many drugs are stopped from entering the U.S. The figures don’t show how many drugs are being sent to the U.S. or how many are making it in. See the sources for this ...

The 90% figure has roots in a 2017 report by the Rand Corp., a nonpartisan research organization. But one of the researchers told PolitiFact that the claim, as stated by Kennedy and RealFood.gov, didn ...

On at least 10 occasions from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8, Trump has offered a version of this statement: "The crime rate now is the lowest it's been since 1900. That's 125 years." One of those occasions was ...

As evidence, the White House said California’s system of sending mail ballots to all voters is "ripe for fraud." A spokesperson pointed to one case of a woman charged with voter fraud. In its ...

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan ...

New York residents must first register to vote before voting at a polling site, and the registration application requires valid identification and residential address. Poll workers check voters’ ...

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