President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

After a group of teenagers severely beat a prominent employee of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., Trump threatened a federal ...

The Democrats called for former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who served as labor secretary during Trump’s first term, to testify about Epstein’s plea deal. They asked the Justice Department to ...

The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it. On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress’ annotated website of the U.S. Constitution was missing sections ...

Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year," Michael Clemens, George Mason University economics ...

Right-leaning advocacy groups say Democrats benefit from people in the U.S. illegally, but not to the degree Blust said.   Studies by other research groups show that such immigrants have a small ...

The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day before then-Vice President Kamala ...

They cited conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan, although India disputes Trump’s involvement.  But "the others strike me as major exaggerations or very ...

A Yellowstone National Park spokesperson told PolitiFact that wildlife is not leaving Yellowstone National Park in large numbers, as TikTok users claimed.  PolitiFact found that the footage of animals ...

Ore., said during July 17 Senate floor remarks that a Treasury Department file shows 4,725 wire transfers "flowing in and out of just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts." Some social media posts ...

We found no evidence that Home Depot signed a $250 million deal with DHS allowing immigration arrests on its properties. We rate this claim False. Email interview with Beth Marlowe, a Home Depot ...

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