Jessica McDonald

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Amanda Seitz |Jessica McDonald |Catalina Jaramillo |Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON — Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list. President Donald Trump’ s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings that were like nothing the Senate has seen in modern memory. The onslaught of claims, promises and testy exchanges did not occur in a political vacuum.

Jan 17, 2025 | factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Catalina Jaramillo

Multiple fires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area after flames have razed neighborhoods, forced mass evacuations and claimed at least 27 lives over more than a week. Some fires have been contained, but three are still active. That includes two of the biggest and most devastating infernos, the Palisades fire in West Los Angeles and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which are already projected to be the most costly in U.S. history.

Dec 6, 2024 | everand.com | Jessica McDonald

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, misleadingly suggested that vaccines might cause autism because “there’s not been a direct study on each individual vaccine.”While he’s technically right about the studies, multiple vaccines and ingredients have been extensively tested, turning up no credible links.

Nov 22, 2024 | everand.com | Jessica McDonald

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In one of his most controversial Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is a longtime spreader of inaccurate information about vaccines, and we’ve written about many of his claims, particularly after Kennedy entered politics in April 2023 as a Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden.

Nov 6, 2024 | everand.com | Jessica McDonald

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Social media users alleged bias against former President Donald Trump when a Google search on Election Day for “where to vote” returned an interactive map to find a person’s polling station when including the word “Harris” but not “Trump.” The reason is because “Harris” is a county in Texas, whereas “Trump” is not a location. As millions of Americans were headed to the polls to cast their ballots on Nov.