Congress hasn’t increased its pay since 2009, so the idea that it would propose nearly $70,000 raises in stopgap legislation caught our attention. We found that the Department of Government Efficiency ...

But the videos are a scam. The federal government is not offering a 2024 holiday stimulus check.

New Jersey drones are searching for missing radioactive material. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reported a piece of equipment used in medical imaging scanners that contained a ...

The San Francisco 49ers lost to the Los Angeles Rams on Dec. 12, but claims the NFL fired three referees after the matchup are unfounded.

The NFL punished three referees in “the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Minnesota Vikings.” The Minnesota Vikings walloped the Atlanta Falcons 42-21 on Dec. 8, and a few days later, ...

Tesla’s website does not feature a tablet computer, nor has the company announced a $100 tablet in a press release. A search for "Tesla tablet" took us to a page on Tesla’s website for the touch ...

With a busy 2024 heading toward a close, PolitiFact readers sent us thoughtful questions and plenty of election-year feedback through email and social media comments. Readers weighed in on the ...

The image of Kate isn’t authentic. A reverse-image search led us to a website where it was identified as artificial intelligence art that was generated using this prompt: "Kate Middleton lies bald in ...

A Jacobs spokesperson pointed to several data points, including a Congressional Budget Office estimate that the five-week partial government shutdown in 2018-19 reduced economic output by $11 billion ...

The reader pick for the 2024 Lie of the Year is also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice: President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were ...

This video is real, but it was not captured at Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. The footage was recorded in August in on Indonesia’s Mount Dukono in North Halmahera. Al Jazeera attributed the ...

Although Singh ruled out that the drones are not from the U.S. military or a foreign country, a transcript and video of Singh’s press briefing show she did not say they are alien aircraft or "not of ...