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Biden's Numbers, 2024 Pre-Election Update

Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators since Joe Biden became president comes less than three weeks before Election Day.

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Trump Ad on Taxes Uses Deceptive Political Playbook - FactCheck.org

In a classic example of how political ads mislead viewers by using out-of-context quotes, a TV ad from former President Donald Trump's campa

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We found false and misleading claims from Vance and Walz on immigration, abortion, health care and more.

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Q&A on the Second International Mpox Emergency - FactCheck.org

Case numbers for the global mpox outbreak have decreased since 2022, but the situation in Africa has noticeably worsened. On Aug. 14, the Wo

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Video: FactChecking the Harris-Trump Debate

The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump generated a lot of work for fact-checkers. In this video, we complied some highlights from the Sept. 10 debate.

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Posts Misrepresent Video of Biden with Trump Hat - FactCheck.org

A viral video showing President Joe Biden briefly donning a campaign hat for Donald Trump has been used to suggest that Biden is endorsing T

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FactCheck.org Featured on NBC10, Telemundo62 - FactCheck.org

NBC10 and Telemundo62 in Philadelphia featured FactCheck.org in segments before, during and after the debate between former President Donald

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Viral Posts Make Baseless Claim About Harris' Earrings at the Debate - FactCheck.org

Social media posts baselessly claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris wore earrings equipped with audio devices in order to cheat during h

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FactChecking the Harris-Trump Debate - FactCheck.org

The highly anticipated debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was a combative event in which facts we

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A Guide to Project 2025 - FactCheck.org

Project 2025 provides a roadmap for "the next conservative President" to fundamentally change how the federal government works. Former Presi

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Online Posts Misrepresent Biden's Proposed Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - FactCheck.org

Social media posts have misrepresented a tax proposed in President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2025 budget. The 25% tax on unrealized capital ga

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Trump Clings to Inaccurate Climate Change Talking Points - FactCheck.org

Former President Donald Trump, who famously called climate change a “hoax” in 2016, hasn’t used the word lately with respect to climate chan

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Trump's False Claim That Harris Met with Putin - FactCheck.org

In February 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris attended an annual security conference in Germany to talk with European leaders about Russian

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Final Night of the Democratic National Convention

Vice President Kamala Harris misleadingly claimed that Trump will give billionaires “another round of tax breaks that will add up to $5 trillion to the national debt.”

That’s the estimated 10-year cost of extending all the tax cuts in Trump’s 2017 tax law, but those tax changes benefited people of all income groups.

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Final Night of the Democratic National Convention

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed former President Donald Trump “intends to enact what in effect is a national sales tax” that would “raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.” That’s a speculative estimate from a liberal think tank based on the upper-end of a Trump-proposed tariff on imported goods. And it ignores other Trump proposals that might lower middle-income taxes.

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Final Night of the Democratic National Convention - FactCheck.org

In Vice President Kamala Harris' acceptance speech, we found familiar claims about taxes, abortion, birth control, and Social Security and M

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Third Night of the Democratic Convention

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz made the unsupported claim that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, will “gut Social Security and Medicare.” Trump has promised not to cut either program.