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3 weeks ago | 
kamumedya.com | Grace Abels |Amy Sherman |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
Hours after Robert Prevost became the first United States-born pontiff on May 8, social media discussions in the US speculated whether Pope Leo XIV, as he is known after the election, was a “registered Republican”. “SCOOP: Our Turning Point Action team pulled the voting history for Pope Leo XIV,” conservative influencer Charlie Kirk wrote on social media platform X on May 8. “He’s a registered Republican who has voted in Republican primaries when not living abroad.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
kamumedya.com | Louis Jacobson |Amy Sherman |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
In his Super Bowl Sunday interview, President Donald Trump defended efforts by Elon Musk to slash the federal budget, including at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and he said more is coming. Trump told Bret Baier of Fox News that “maybe in 24 hours” he would tell Musk, the billionaire leading the Department of Government Efficiency, to “check the Department of Education” and the “military”.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
apdirect.in | Amy Sherman |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
Former US President Donald Trump called former US Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk” and said she should see how it feels to face guns “trained on her face”. Trump made the comments to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at an October 31 campaign event in Glendale, Arizona. Carlson asked Trump whether it was “weird” for him to see Cheney, the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, campaigning against him.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Amy Sherman |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
Former US President Donald Trump called former US Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk” and said she should see how it feels to face guns “trained on her face”. Trump made the comments to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at an October 31 campaign event in Glendale, Arizona. Carlson asked Trump whether it was “weird” for him to see Cheney, the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, campaigning against him.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Louis Jacobson |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
US Vice President Kamala Harris stated on September 27, 2024, in a campaign advertisement: “Former President Donald Trump wants to take away the Affordable Care Act.”In the September 27 online ad, a man identified as Dr Cesar Quintana, says: “I’ve dedicated my life to keeping people healthy, here in my office and throughout the community where I help others access the healthcare they need. That’s what the Affordable Care Act does. It helps our families access lifesaving healthcare.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Louis Jacobson |Samantha Putterman |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
In a CNN town hall, Vice President Kamala Harris faced questions about her policy approach from voters. Voters at the October 23 event in Delaware County, Pennsylvania pressed Harris on why her administration did not act sooner to curb irregular migration, what she planned to do to restrain inflation and US military aid to Israel.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Maria Ramirez Uribe |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
EXPLAINERDonald Trump chartered a 727 for Nelson Mandela’s trip to the US after he was released from prison. But it wasn’t a giftBy In the last few weeks before Election Day, podcaster and Fox News contributor George “Tyrus” Murdoch tried to show voters a philanthropic side of former President Donald Trump. Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United States. The US government was not helping him. No one was helping him,” Murdoch said in an interview with Trump posted October 18 on X.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Maria Ramirez Uribe |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
EXPLAINERThe law has been used three times in history – but only when the United States has been at war with a foreign nation. By A cornerstone of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has been his promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in United States history. The details of how he would carry out the plan have been unclear. But at recent rallies, Trump has said he will use an 18th-century law to enforce mass deportations.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
In a frequently contentious, sometimes testy exchange, Vice President Kamala Harris went on Fox News and fielded anchor Bret Baier’s questions on immigration, the economy and her policy differences with her Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump, as well as her boss, President Joe Biden. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did the interview, her first-ever on Fox, on October 16 as part of her home-stretch election interview blitz.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Madison Czopek |Politi FactPublished |Politi Fact
Besides responding to the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene in the US, emergency workers are battling online misinformation that could dissuade survivors from accepting disaster relief. Some false claims have focused on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) $750 payments for essential supplies. “BREAKING: Hurricane victims are now realizing that the $750 from FEMA that Kamala Harris is offering them is actually a loan, not real relief,” Philip Anderson wrote on X on October 4.
