A new memoir by Rob Henderson captures the pain of family breakdown.
The Dispatch→ Why You Can Bank on the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024
The team’s offseason spending spree highlights baseball’s absurd payroll disparities.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse Will NOT Pass Over 8 North American Towns Named Nineveh
Will the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse entirely obscure the sun for eight North American towns named Nineveh, as claimed in a video on TikTok? No, that's not true: Only two of the eight places named Nineveh mentioned in the video -- Nineve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. JAG Did NOT Arrest 3rd Colorado Supreme Court Justice
Did the U.S. Judge Advocate General's Corps arrest a "third" Colorado Supreme Court justice who voted in favor of removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the state for the 2024 presidential election? No, that's not true:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Israelis Do NOT Get Free Health Care In US, Do NOT Receive Organs Ahead Of Americans
Do Israelis get free healthcare in the United States and receive transplant organs ahead of Americans? No, that's not true: Healthcare in the United States is primarily provided through private insurance or government programs like Medica
Internet Archive→ The Ingraham Angle : FOXNEWSW : March 1, 2024 4:00pm-5:00pm PST
Laura Ingraham aims to cut through the Washington chatter to speak directly with unexpected voices and the actual people who are impacted by the news of the day..This item belongs to: movies/TV-FOXNEWSW.This item has files of the following types: Capti
The Dispatch→ Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
Who’s to blame for the pace of Trump’s January 6 trial?
The Dispatch→ Ukraine’s Moral Reality
Wanting to help the country fend off Russian aggression isn’t pie-eyed idealism.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, your legal name is not a corporation. That claim is based on a discredited conspiracy theory.
“Your legal name is in fact a corporation. This is why you always see your name written in ALL CAPS.”
PolitiFact→ Sean Hannity – Sean Hannity is wrong. ‘Illegal immigrants’ cannot vote in New York City’s local elections
In New York City “local elections, illegal immigrants can vote.”
PolitiFact→ Tommy Tuberville – Tuberville’s claim that Olympics decided ‘men can box women’ misses the mark
The Olympic boxing committee “decided this year that men can box against women in the Olympics.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Schumer, Biden discussed election, not blaming Republicans, in hot mic moment
“Chuck Schumer caught on hot mic” plotting to “blame REPUBLICANS AND MAGA” for reform delays.
PolitiFact→ Critics say an Aldi job ad excluded white people. We took a closer look
Conservatives criticized an job ad for Aldi written by Jobs for Humanity, which creates job boards for groups that are underrepresented in the workforce, saying it showed Aldi isn’t hiring white people. We took a closer look.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Did Biden confirm blue roofs are spared in wildfires? No, that’s False.
President Joe Biden’s comments about Texas homes are evidence that homes of a certain color are spared from wildfires.
The Dispatch→ Nikki Haley’s Super Tuesday Countdown
Taking down The Don.
FactCheck.org→ Blood Donations from COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Are Safe, Contrary to Online Claims
SciCheck Digest People vaccinated with an authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine can donate blood immediately after receiving a shot if they’re feeling well. Social media posts distort a question from the American Red Cross to baselessly claim t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: IDF DID Fire Shots Near Site Of Gaza Trampling Incident On February 29, 2024
Did the Israel Defense Forces not open fire near trucks delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza on February 29, 2024? No, that's not true: The Israel Defense Forces officially acknowledged that Israeli soldiers fired shots within proximity of
Health Feedback→ Tennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now
REVIEW On 21 February 2024, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill (HB1894) on food labeling sponsored by lawmaker Scott Cepicky. The bill “prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canada Did NOT Recently Change Its Rules To Prohibit Palestine As Country Of Birth On Passports
Did Canada recently change its passport policy to prohibit people from listing Palestine as their country of birth on their passports? No, that's not true: Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller responded t
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Polish foreign minister did not call the U.S. ‘dysfunctional and unreliable’ over Ukraine aid
Poland's foreign minister said the U.S. is "dysfunctional and unreliable" because it has not sent more aid to Ukraine.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Undocumented immigrants are not proof of a scheme to replace whites with nonwhites
“7.2 million illegals entered the U.S. under Biden administration,” showing that “the ‘Great Replacement’ is not a theory, it’s a reality."
The Dispatch→ Haley Continues Her Cross-Country Stump Ahead of Super Tuesday
Plus: With McConnell retiring, who might lead Senate Republicans next?
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fact-checking misinformation about estrogen in meat and health effects on men
Chicken and cows have high levels of estrogen, which leads men who eat them to bald, develop man boobs and be unable to grow muscle mass.
PolitiFact→ Sarah Godlewski – No, Wisconsin Secretary of State doesn’t have to countersign new laws for them to take effect
“One of my responsibilities as Secretary of State is to countersign acts passed by the legislature & signed into law by Gov. Evers.”
PolitiFact→ The context behind Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s dueling immigration speeches at the Texas border
In Texas, Donald Trump and Joe Biden delivered vastly different speeches about immigration and border security. Here’s the context behind statements about Trump’s immigration record, crime committed by migrants and the stalled Senate border bill.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Rothschild conspiracy theory resurfaces, but family doesn’t control global financial system
“The Rothschilds were behind the Federal Reserve, and they now control the global financial system.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has not updated its background check policy to allow people in the U.S. illegally to purchase firearms.
The Dispatch→ McConnell Retires From Leadership
After almost 17 years, the Senate Republican leader announces plans to step down.
Full Fact→ Video of shivering child is from Syria, not Gaza
The video appears to have been posted by someone in Syria, but has since been shared alongside the Palestinian flag.
Health Feedback→ Various childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
REVIEW The claim that no childhood vaccine has ever been tested against a placebo in a double-blind, randomized trial commonly crops up in anti-vaccine content. One example of this claim can be seen in this Instagram post. Prominent figures in the
The Dispatch→ The Trials of Donald Trump, Explained
The Collision takes over.
The Dispatch→ Joe Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation, Explained
Although the Supreme Court blocked one of the president’s debt cancellation plans, his administration has forgiven billions via other policies.
The Dispatch→ Ten Myths Sabotaging Social Security Reform
Distorting history and underestimating the severity of the problem only increases the chance of insolvency.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Astronauts Jumping Straight Up on the Moon NOT Exempt From Laws Of Motion — Will Land in Same Spot, Rotate Along With Surface
Does a meme on social media prove that footage of astronauts jumping on the surface of the moon must be fake because they come back down to approximately the same place? Wouldn't an astronaut who jumped up for one second come down many fe
Internet Archive→ Hannity : FOXNEWSW : February 29, 2024 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Arrest Rear Adm. Michael Platt In February 2024 — Claim Is From Site That Publishes Made-Up Stories
Did U.S. Marines arrest Rear Adm. Michael Platt, Coast Guard officer and military adviser to the Department of Homeland Security, in February 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appeared on a website that publishes fabricated content. A
PolitiFact→ Yes, a Maricopa County voter received two mail ballots. That’s not a sign of wrongdoing or fraud.
A Maricopa County voter shared an image of two mail ballots she received. An elections official said this happened because the voter changed her address as voter registration ended and only one ballot will be counted. This doesn’t signal fraud.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Shedding Is NOT Real
Is COVID-19 vaccine shedding real, meaning it can spread from person to person? No, that's not true: The COVID-19 shots authorized for use in the United States do not contain the live virus and therefore cannot replicate in the body or be
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, 50% of Biden’s Michigan vote was not unverified mail-in votes
Fifty percent of the votes to Joe Biden in Michigan’s presidential primary election were mail-in, unverified, no signature, no ID.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Donald Trump, not his lookalike, promoted the COVID-19 vaccine several times
It was not former President Donald Trump who promoted the COVID-19 vaccine, but a “lookalike.”