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President Donald Trump abandoned his teleprompter in favor of impromptu musings in a speech at a retreat for House Republicans on Tuesday. And those ad-libbed Trump comments were filled with false claims.
Motoc is the presiding judge of the ICC pre-trial chamber handling Duterte’s case; her name and signature can be seen in a court decision dated January 7, 2026
Looking back on 2025, Snopes fact-checked an array of rumors that initially seemed questionable but, upon closer inspection, were legitimate.
A British dental clinic that gives appointments to all National Health Service patients has been falsely described online as a practice operating exclusively for migrants.
Though US forces did strike Fuerte Tiuna to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the viral video shows the June 2025 Iranian missile attack on Israel
A video claiming to show a clip from an upcoming episode of "South Park" that lampoons Tim Walz has surfaced online: is it real?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.
Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of editors reviewed the fact-check and voted on a final rating.
The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the instinct to simply blame AI, instead putting ...
It was a telling revelation from now-former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler when he shared a conversation he once had with publisher Will Lewis, in which Lewis asked, “What should the Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?” “[I felt ...