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Fact-check: Cooper says NC officials ‘removed’ an HBCU early-voting site ahead of midterm elections
North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper said election officials “removed that ballot box” from North Carolina A&T, a historically Black university in Greensboro. While the campus had a site in 2024, it has never had one in midterm elections.
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Fact-check: Can Trump give Americans $5,000 if Republicans win midterms?
“I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” President Donald Trump said, adding: “If the Republicans win. You win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the ‘Trump dividend.’”
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Fact-checking Trump's RNC claims about affordability, US senate candidates El-Sayed and Talarico
President Donald Trump headlined the first night of the Republicans’ first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, spotlighting policies about transgender people, illegal immigration and opponents who align with democratic socialism.
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Live blog: Fact-checking opening night of the Republican National Committee's midterm convention
President Donald Trump will headline the speeches for night 1 of the RNC Midterm Convention 2026.
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One year later: Fact-checking conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death
Misinformation swelled almost immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, evolving from chaotic breaking news rumors into complex, unfounded narratives — many pushed by people who share Kirk’s political beliefs.
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North Carolina's kindergarten vaccination rates show vulnerability to measles amid US outbreaks
North Carolina students are returning to class this fall amid outbreaks of measles across the U.S. PolitiFact examines kindergarten vaccination trends across the nation.
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Fact-checking Trump's claim that 'thousands' of immigrants illegally voted in New Jersey
“They caught thousands of votes in New Jersey where illegal aliens were allowed to vote,” President Donald Trump said during a speech in Georgia. “Thousands and thousands of votes.”
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Fact-check: When will Trump deal with Venezuela lower gas prices in the US?
President Donald Trump announced in an Aug. 28 social media post that he had struck a deal with Venezuela that "will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future."
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Fact-check: Did drug overdose deaths decrease because Trump 'sealed the border'?
In an Aug. 24 speech Brewer, Maine, Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration’s border strategy kept drugs out of the country and saved lives.
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Fact-check: Political ads attacking Cooper link COVID-era NC inmate release to unrelated murders
The Senate Leadership Fund is attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper, the former governor, for agreeing to a settlement that led to the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fact-checking claims about US Senate candidates and Jeffrey Epstein
Why Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender who died in 2019, is being mentioned in U.S. Senate races in Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, and other battleground states.
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Fact-check: Did illegal immigration cause US measles outbreak?
"[T]he reason why we have seen a measles outbreak in certain parts of the country is because of rampant illegal immigration into the United States from the previous administration," Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds said Aug. 23 on CBS News’ “Face the Nation."
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Is your burger actually horse meat? Fact-checking claims about Trump allowing more imported beef
Social media users claim the Trump administration is selling horses to foreign countries, which are then importing the meat to the U.S.
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PolitiFact: How Trump reignited a trade war with Canada that could affect North Carolina
President Donald Trump is employing a number of legal tactics to justify tariffs after the Supreme Court invalidated the legal authority he cited soon after taking office and announcing tariffs on nearly every nation.
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Fact-check: Did North Carolina 'process' 1 million duplicate voter registrations?
“Governor Josh Stein won North Carolina by 828,187 votes. North Carolina processed 1,031,350 duplicate registrations,” Shiloh Marx, president of the Integrity First Alliance, said in a July 20 X post.
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Fact-check: Has the US had more foodborne illnesses and recalls than previous years?
Data from the Food and Drug Administration’s investigations into foodborne outbreaks show the U.S. is seeing slightly more outbreak investigations this year than in recent years.
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Cyclospora outbreak: Fact-checking claims about Taylor Farms’ donations to Trump-aligned groups
After Taylor Farms de Mexico’s lettuce was identified as a potential source for a multi-state cyclospora outbreak, the company’s political dealings and contributions came under scrutiny.
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Fact-check: Did Congress vote to ‘merge’ the US and Israeli militaries?
On July 22, the U.S. House passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act — which sets funding and policy for the U.S. Defense Department — for fiscal year 2027.
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Fact-check: Are COVID vaccines linked to higher miscarriage rates?
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has revived a years-old inaccurate theory that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to higher rates of miscarriages.
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Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine: Why it's combined and how it could change
President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to “break up the MMR shot” and “take them separately” might have Americans wondering whether they can get separate shots and how and why the vaccines were ever combined. Here are some answers to common MMR vaccine questions.
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Fact-check: Trump says of prices: 'the food, the groceries, it’s all coming down'
“I inherited very, very high costs, and they’re all coming down now,” President Donald Trump said Aug. 4 on Fox News. “The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down.”
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Fact-check: Kennedy says the US had the highest COVID death rate on earth
In a combative interview on CNN, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said “We had the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth."
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Trump says Iran war going 'extremely well.' PolitiFact reviews US goals, casualties, and gas prices
“We’re doing very well against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” President Donald Trump said at a July 23 event in Washington, D.C. “We’re doing extremely well.” Later in the event, Trump reiterated this, saying the U.S. was “doing very well, very, very well” in the war.
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Fact-check: Can foreign adversaries access US voting machines?
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin recently said, in unequivocal terms, that foreign adversaries can access voting machines and flip votes, echoing President Donald Trump’s narrative about interference in the 2020 election.
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Fact-check: How popular are voter ID requirements and how common are they?
“As Americans we are fair and logical. 83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us,” says an ad by Restoration of America, the umbrella name of several conservative advocacy organizations.
