President Joe Biden unleashed a political earthquake with his decision to forgo the 2024 presidential nomination and endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris. What’s next for the Democratic nominee selection process?
The Dispatch→ Dispatch Live: Biden Drops Out
Tune in for an emergency edition of our weekly livestreamed discussion.
PolitiFact→ READ: Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris. Read his letter here.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race in a letter posted on social media. Read the full letter here.
The Dispatch→ Biden Withdraws From the 2024 Election
The president endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic nominee.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race. Read PolitiFact's updating coverage
After a criticized debate performance and calls from within the Democratic Party to step aside, President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. PolitiFact is fact-checking and monitoring claims about Biden's exi
The Dispatch→ How Hope For Unity Can Erode After Tragedy
Community cohesion after Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue shooting in 2018 gave way to hatred after October 7.
The Dispatch→ The Latter-Day Saint Theology of Immigration
Migration is tied up in the church’s history and identity.
The Dispatch→ Not Quite Napoleon
What day is this?
The Dispatch→ A Historic Week for America
Republicans enjoy an upbeat convention while President Joe Biden faces more calls to end his campaign.
The Dispatch→ Biden Steals the Spotlight in Seclusion
Manufactured machismo at the RNC can’t match the drama playing out at the White House.
The Dispatch→ ‘Israel is Our Lifeline’
Fighting for a home.
The Dispatch→ Ace Frehley’s Paranormal Instincts
A conversation with the original lead guitarist of Kiss.
The Dispatch→ ‘Horizon’ Begins a Civilizational Saga
Kevin Costner’s new movie reflects on what it takes to build and maintain a society.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEC Filings Show Trump Attempted Shooter DID Donate $15 To Democrat Org ActBlue
Did the man who tried to assassinate Republican nominee Donald Trump donate $15 to the Democrat online fundraising platform ActBlue or was it some other person as some people on social media claimed? Lead Stories confirmed through Federal
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof That Trump’s Truth Social Stock Had Unusually Busy Short Selling Before Assassination Attempt
Did short selling for Trump Media "more than double" between July 1 and July 12, 2024, making the stock "plummet one day before the assassination attempt" against the company's co-founder, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump? No,
The Dispatch→ A Sigh of Relief
Because character is … wait for it …
The Dispatch→ The Bread-and-Circus Stage of American Decline
We live in an unserious country.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Trump Shooter Crooks Wearing Yarmulke, Synagogue Representatives Say
Does a photo on social media show Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks wearing a yarmulke? No, that's not true: Representatives of the Congregation B'nai Abraham Synagogue in Butler, Pennsylvania, told Lead Stories they know the person in
The Dispatch→ FBI Disputes Unsupported Claim From YouTuber About Trump Assassination Attempt
No evidence supports claims that an FBI official was present at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania last weekend.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sphere Did NOT Show ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ OR ‘BSoD’ During CrowdStrike Outage — Image Is Doctored, From 2023
Did the Sphere in Las Vegas show a "blue screen of death" or "BSoD" on July 19, 2024, during the global Windows outages caused by a CrowdStrike software defect? No, that's not true: The image on social media that makes this claim is docto
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show FBI’s Janeen DiGuiseppi At Rally Where Trump Was Shot
Does video from the campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was shot show Janeen DiGuiseppi of the FBI? No, that's not true: The woman in the video is not DiGuiseppi, the FBI said. The FBI told Lead Stories that DiGuiseppi, ass
PolitiFact→ X posts – No, Bill Gates didn’t cause July 19 worldwide IT outage
Bill Gates is responsible for July 19 global tech outage.
PolitiFact→ X posts – No, Grindr executives didn’t call the RNC “Grindr’s Super Bowl”
An executive of the gay dating app Grindr said the Republican National Convention is "basically Grindr’s Super Bowl.'”
PolitiFact→ It’s a wrap: Read our fact-checks and stories from the 2024 RNC
Former President Donald Trump wrapped up a Republican National Convention that began in the shadow of an assassination attempt on him just days earlier. Read all of PolitiFact’s coverage from the week here.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Appear With Bandage On ‘Wrong Ear’ At Republican National Convention — Edited Video
Did Donald Trump wear a bandage on the "wrong ear" -- the left one -- at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024? No, that's not true: The video that makes this claim has been flipped on a horizontal axis, re
The Dispatch→ No, Richard Nixon’s 1968 Election Win Wasn’t ‘A Landslide’
A viral exchange on X blames President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to withdraw from the race for Nixon’s election.
The Dispatch→ Two Sides of Trump on Display in Nomination Speech
Plus: J.D. Vance attempts to soothe neglected social conservatives.
FactCheck.org→ Misinformation Swirls After Attempted Assassination
A shooter attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in the western Pennsylvania town of Butler on July 13. Former President Donald Trump is assisted offstage after shots were fired during a campaign rally on July 13, in Butl
Full Fact→ Headline on court ruling on calling Keir Starmer ‘Tory scum’ has been edited to include his name
The original article refers to a court case about Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith.
Full Fact→ Total public spending for Scotland is higher than the revenue it generates
A Facebook post claims Scotland is expected to ‘function’ on 37% of the revenue it generates, but this isn’t correct.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Secret Service sniper wasn’t wearing a red string bracelet tied to Kabbalah Judaism
A photo shows a Secret Service sniper at the July 13 Trump rally wearing a red string bracelet tied to Kabbalah Judaism.
AllSides→ Does Arizona require proof of citizenship for state elections but not federal elections?
https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/does-arizona-require-proof-of-citizenship-for-state-elections-but-not-federal-elections?utm_source=allsides&utm_id=112
Full Fact→ Nigel Farage’s comments on ‘the black community’ taken out of context
A video of the Reform UK leader saying he would do “absolutely nothing” for the black community stops mid-sentence, before he actually said he “couldn’t give a damn whether you’re black or white”.
Full Fact→ Donald Trump shooting: false claims spread online after assassination attempt
Claims the attack was staged and various competing claims about who was responsible have been widespread on social media.
The Dispatch→ Trump Receives Republican Nomination at Fawning Convention
Plus: A stand-off in the South China Sea.
The Dispatch→ Video: Trump Reanointed at RNC
Watch the video of our live-streamed discussion.
Health Feedback→ Unprotected sun overexposure, not sunscreen or sunglasses, causes sunburn and skin cancer
REVIEW In mid-July 2024, a Facebook reel with almost half a million views claimed there is “a direct correlation” between the introduction of sunscreen use and skin cancer. It added that wearing sunglasses reduces natural protection against sunb
FactCheck.org→ Final Night of the GOP Convention
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary For the first half hour of former President Donald Trump’s speech, when he discussed the attempt to assassinate him in Pennsylvania on July 13 and the need for unit
Health Feedback→ Research suggests that a particular mutation related to larger spleen size provides the Bajau people from Southeast Asia with remarkable diving skills
REVIEW An Instagram post from June 2024 claimed that the Bajau people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group, evolved to become remarkable breath-hold divers thanks to a “unique genetic mutation”. The mutation associated with an enlarged spleen, which
The Dispatch→ Government Isn’t Your Mamaw
J.D. Vance’s misplaced blame for the woes of the working class.