As the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV publicly sparred over the Iran war, social media users claimed that both the pontiff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited fictional Bible verses to ...

"My favorite small win for sanity today: After a 5-year gender-neutral absence, Disney has restored ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ to the Magic Kingdom monorail greeting," one user wrote on X April 15.

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the ...

The 83% statistic comes from a well-respected pollster. It asked Americans about voter ID, but not about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The poll was conducted in 2025, before the bill ...

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Maine. She was sworn in as the governor in January 2019 and previously served as state Attorney General.

PolitiFact Ohio has compiled promises that John Kasich made during the 2010 campaign and is tracking their progress on our Kasich-O-Meter.

Over the last 30 years, scientists have experimented with ways to harness plant biology to create medications, or even deliver vaccines to animals and humans — but the science has moved away from ...

"Mom, Dad, checking in," one person who appears to be a U.S. service member tells the camera. "I’m good, okay? No need to worry about me." Surrounded by snow and ice, she continues: "It’s freezing out ...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to hold a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts. But this move would be illegal, some state Democrats say. "They are ...

N.C., have been at odds over the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. They can’t even agree on whether Tillis is still a senator.

One reason the U.S. Navy was created in the late 1700s and early 1800s was to counter north African states’ attacks on shipping, during conflicts that became known as the Barbary wars. That situation ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...