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Trump's posts on Brown shooting, Reiner killing highlight a rush to post before facts are known By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2025 What to make of an abysmal year for truth? PolitiFact names 2025 the Year of the Lies By Katie Sanders • December 15, 2025 Announcing PolitiFact Readers' Choice for the 2025 Lie of the Year By Ellen Hine • December 15, 2025 A history of PolitiFact's Lie of the Year, from 2009 to 2025 By Maria Briceño • December 15, 2025 Who decides when genocide has occurred? The long legal process hinges on proving intent By Grace Abels • December 12, 2025 Health care consolidation and rising costs happen, but Obamacare is not the key culprit By Julie Appleby • December 11, 2025 Fact-checking Donald Trump’s statements on the economy in insult-laden Pennsylvania speech By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2025 Health Savings Accounts, backed by GOP, cover fancy saunas but not insurance premiums By Amanda Seitz • December 8, 2025 Don’t fall for video of priest turning away ICE agents from his church, it isn’t legit By Maria Briceño • December 8, 2025 4 fact-checks after CDC vaccine panel ends universal newborn hep B vaccine recommendations By Grace Abels • December 5, 2025 3 things to know about COVID-19 and children after FDA officials said COVID-19 vaccines are deadly By Madison Czopek • December 3, 2025 Trump sees a future without federal income taxes, but the tariff math doesn’t add up By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2025 Here’s why an appeals court upheld disqualifying Alina Habba as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney By Maria Briceño • December 2, 2025 RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here’s what parents need to know. By Jackie Fortiér • December 2, 2025 Trump’s pardon comments omit why former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was prosecuted By Maria Briceño • December 1, 2025 Whooping cough cases are rising. Know the symptoms and how to avoid infection. By Grace Abels • November 25, 2025 Fact-checking claims about Border Patrol’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina By Will Doran • November 24, 2025 Breast cancer and birth control: New study shows how science can be distorted By Céline Gounder • November 24, 2025 Bird flu might impact price, but not safety of Thanksgiving turkey By Grace Abels • November 21, 2025 What to know about the CDC’s baseless new guidance on autism By Arthur Allen • November 21, 2025
