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Trump sees the Presidential Records Act as his ace. It isn’t.

The Presidential Records Act is not an all-purpose security blanket, as former president Donald Trump often claims.

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McCarthy says Biden has cost families $7,400, but it depends on your math

The House speaker cited an eye-popping number. But not all economists believe it is correct.

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Bragg’s Manhattan vs. Jordan’s Mansfield: Which one has more crime?

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is highlighting crime in New York. What about his own backyard?

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Newsom’s claim that Trump states have the highest murder rates

The California governor's claim glosses over decades of a persistent pattern.

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Parsing Clarence Thomas’s statements on the gifts he didn’t disclose

We take a line-by-line look at Thomas's rare public comment.

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Fact-checking Trump’s comments and ‘truths’ on arraignment day

Here's a guide to ten remarks that the former president made Tuesday in his speech and on Truth Social, his social media website.

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The incendiary claim that George Soros ‘funded’ Alvin Bragg

Republicans keep dragging billionaire George Soros into the Trump indictment, even though any links between him and District Attorney Alvin Bragg are tenuous.

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How Kevin McCarthy manipulated Biden’s words on debt talks

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted a misleading mash-up of Biden quotes from 2011.

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The data is clear: There is no ‘clear epidemic’ of transgender mass shooters

Donald Trump Jr. and other conservative commentators are rushing to make assumptions without checking the facts.

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Three reasons to doubt Biden’s story on his father and a gay kiss

Biden has told various versions of this story in recent years but elements do not add up

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