Fact Checking

Fact-checking Trump’s most repeated immigration inaccuracies

[ad_1] Millions of immigrants are coming to the U.S. from foreign prisons and mental institutions. Immigrants are raising U.S. crime rates. Immigrants are ruining Social Security. Noncitizens are illegally voting in federal elections. Immigrants are taking U.S. jobs.  That is just a sampling of the false and misleading immigration claims former President Donald Trump has […]

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Feds didn’t seize video of Hillary Clinton killing a child

[ad_1] A federal indictment alleging music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs filmed sex acts at “freak off” parties led some social media users to revive an old debunked conspiracy theory about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “FBI seize Diddy tape showing Hillary Clinton killing child at ‘freak off’ party,” an Oct. 31 Instagram post reads. […]

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On election night 2024, don’t fall for falsehoods

[ad_1] On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, “We already have won.” He hadn’t, and we rated that Pants on Fire. When Trump began to speak in the early morning of Nov. 4, at 2:21 a.m. ET, states were still following normal procedures to count ballots. It was […]

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Pennsylvania is an election misinformation magnet

[ad_1] In the week before Election Day, former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters that voter fraud and cheating is happening in Pennsylvania. “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump posted Oct. 30 on Truth Social. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” Law enforcement […]

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Trump distorts Lancaster voter registration investigation

[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump said Republicans on his side caught rampant voter cheating in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. “They have already started cheating in Lancaster,” Trump said at an Oct. 29 rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “They have cheated. We caught them with 2,600 votes. We caught them cold, 2,600 votes. … And every vote was […]

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Fact-checking Kamala Harris’ speech on the Ellipse

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — In a speech from the Ellipse adjoining the White House, one week from Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris drew a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, calling him a “petty tyrant” and repeating a line she has used in recent days, that she would begin her presidential term not with […]

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Kamala Harris did not call Donald Trump “Adolf Hitler”

[ad_1] A day after Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” he retorted and accused her of calling him Adolf Hitler. “Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, […]

Real Estate

The 10 Sunniest Cities in the U.S., Ranked

[ad_1] Are you craving some vitamin D or looking for a change of scenery? Well, you’re not alone. More and more people are looking to move to sunnier cities throughout the country. In fact, sunny, relatively affordable metro areas have been some of the most popular migration destinations over the last few years.  The Sun […]

Boston, Massachusetts Local News

Biden ‘deeply concerned’ about release of documents on Israel’s possible attack plans

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran, a White House spokesman said Monday. The Biden administration is still not certain if the classified information was leaked or hacked, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said. […]

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Harris doesn’t support mandatory gun buyback programs

[ad_1] Did you just get catfished by a political ad? If you have been scrolling on Facebook or Instagram lately, maybe. A group called “Progress 2028” has paid for Facebook and Instagram ads that give the impression that they’re promoting Vice President Kamala Harris’ agenda on polarizing issues, including immigration, gun control and hydraulic fracturing […]

Education

Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Selects Carlos Garcia for its Lifetime Achievement Award

[ad_1] WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) has named Carlos Garcia as the recipient of its 2024-25 ALAS Lifetime Achievement Award. Garcia was a founding member of ALAS and has also served as the association’s president, among other roles. Garcia was recognized at a special awards ceremony during the ALAS […]

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Baldwin claim that Hovde “just proposed cutting Social Security by 28%” is misleading

[ad_1] Ah, Social Security. The third rail of politics. Its coffers are running low, but a large majority of Americans like it, and thus, politicians who talk about cutting it are wandering into risky territory.  Perhaps that’s why U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, has attacked Republican businessman Eric Hovde — who’s running to unseat her […]

Boston, Massachusetts Local News

Ga. authorities investigate collapse that killed 7

[ad_1] SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven people on an island off the state’s Atlantic seacoast, where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants. “It is a structural failure. There should […]

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We inked a short fact-check about tattoos at the polls

[ad_1] Many state laws prohibit people from wearing campaign T-shirts, hats or buttons inside voting sites to prevent voter intimidation. But what about political expression of a permanent nature — tattoos? A viral video of former President Donald Trump supporters at a Georgia polling site appeared to test the rules. The video on X showed […]

Education

SEL implementation soars across U.S.

[ad_1] Key findings: A national survey of educators and principals shows a record number of K-12 schools reporting social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation, according to new research from CASEL and RAND. By the 2023-24 school year, 83 percent of school principals reported that their schools used an SEL curriculum. That number marks a steady […]

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Live fact-checking Trump’s town hall on Fox News

[ad_1] PolitiFact is fact-checking former President Donald Trump’s Fox News town hall, airing today at 11 a.m. ET.   The town hall on “The Faulkner Focus” with Harrison Faulkner, was recorded Oct. 15 in Cumming, Georgia, outside Altanta. (Faulkner also co-moderated Trump’s July appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists panel in Chicago.) The town hall, as […]