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Can Trump create $2,000 tariff dividends, 50-year mortgages or direct health care payments? By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2025 Trump proposed $2,000 payments for Americans from tariff dividends. Would that work? By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2025 Can the US government strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship? By Samantha Putterman • November 7, 2025 The food pyramid was phased out in 2011, but it still gets hate. We looked back at why By Grace Abels • November 7, 2025 Nancy Pelosi to retire: How the Democratic leader stretched facts and became a misinformation magnet By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2025 Las acciones de Trump podrían afectar las elecciones de medio término de 2026. ¿Qué significaría? By Amy Sherman • November 5, 2025 How do you get rid of the filibuster? Trump has called for an end, but it wouldn’t be easy By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2025 Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Fact-checking his statements on nuclear weapons, Mamdani, ICE By Grace Abels • November 3, 2025 Trump's actions could affect the 2026 midterm elections. What will it mean for voters? By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2025 HHS' Oz says $1 billion of Medicaid funds went to immigrants in US illegally. States disagree By Phil Galewitz • November 3, 2025 Ask PolitiFact: How much could the federal shutdown cost? By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2025 White House construction: How Donald Trump’s ballroom compares with Barack Obama’s renovations By Maria Briceño • October 31, 2025 Why the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is combined By Madison Czopek • October 31, 2025 A product says it's ‘FDA approved,’ ‘FDA registered’ or ‘FDA certified.’ What does that even mean? By Madison Czopek • October 29, 2025 The Trump administration is deploying election monitors to California, New Jersey. Is that unusual? By Amy Sherman • October 28, 2025 How do countries without school vaccination requirements maintain high vaccination rates? By Madison Czopek • October 28, 2025 Who gets food stamps? Viral chart misleads about SNAP recipients' race, ethnicity By Loreben Tuquero • October 27, 2025 Donald Trump, Steve Bannon keep talking about a 3rd term. Can Trump do it? By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2025 Estudios sobre la circuncisión y el autismo no dicen lo que alega RFK Jr. By Grace Abels • October 27, 2025 GOP talking point holds ACA is haunted by ‘phantom’ enrollees, but the devil’s in the data By Victoria Knight • October 27, 2025