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1 week ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Amy Sherman |Loreben Tuquero |Politi Fact
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WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Canadians have long spent wintertime in Florida, trading in frigid temperatures for the Sunshine State’s sunny beaches and spending money on restaurants and hotels that cater to Canadian tourists.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Amy Sherman |Loreben Tuquero |Politi Fact
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Canadians have long spent wintertime in Florida, trading in frigid temperatures for the Sunshine State’s sunny beaches and spending money on restaurants and hotels that cater to Canadian tourists.
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1 month ago | 
pbs.org | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact |Amy Sherman
This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump claimed some of former President Joe Biden’s pardons are invalid because Biden used an autopen. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump wrote March 17 on Truth Social.
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2 months ago | 
pbs.org | Jeff C. Cercone |Politi Fact |Amy Sherman |Sara Swann
This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. In an extraordinary televised Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shouted and argued about how to end Ukraine’s war with Russia. Trump threatened to withdraw U.S. support for Ukraine if the leaders couldn’t make a deal. “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out,” Trump said during the Feb. 28 meeting.
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2 months ago | 
pbs.org | Claire Cranford |Politi Fact |Amy Sherman
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump said they have uncovered massive “fraud” in the federal government. During Oval Office remarks Feb.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
houstonchronicle.com | Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu |Samantha Putterman |Amy Sherman |Politi Fact
Sarah Baus of Charleston, S.C., holds a sign that reads "Keep TikTok" as she and other content creators Sallye Miley of Jackson, Mississippi, and Callie Goodwin of Columbia, S.C., stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesThe backstory: In July 2020, then-President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, "As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States." The next month, he signed an executive order seeking to ban the app.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wlrn.org | Samantha Putterman |Amy Sherman
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. In sometimes fiery exchanges, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi fielded questions during a Senate confirmation hearing for her attorney general nomination about whether she would prosecute President-elect Donald Trump’s declared political enemies.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
houstonchronicle.com | Amy Sherman |Politi Fact
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the “Our Fight Our Future Rally” held at Texas State University on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in San Marcos, Texas.Josie Norris/San Antonio Express-NewsElon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during a Starship update press conference Thursday, Feb.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
pbs.org | Matthew Crowley |Politi Fact |Louis Jacobson |Maria Uribe |Amy Sherman
Former President Donald Trump hammered an anti-immigration theme in his closing argument pitch to voters Oct. 27 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. WATCH: Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally highlights crude and racist insultsBut before Trump spoke, the event made headlines for a series of racist jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. He called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and disparaged Black Americans, Latinos and Jewish people.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
pbs.org | Amy Sherman |Politi Fact
After the polls closed in November 2020, Americans witnessed an unprecedented intersection of violent threats and voting. Men carrying rifles stood by with demonstrators outside vote tabulation sites in Arizona’s Maricopa County and Las Vegas. In Detroit, people banged on the windows of Detroit’s TFC Center. In Philadelphia, police arrested two armed men who had traveled from out of state outside the convention center.
