PolitiFact examined social media posts claiming that April 5 protesters in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere were paid, but none of the claims held up to scrutiny. Videos misleading ...

One way to look at President Donald Trump’s statement is to consider the value of Chinese exports to the U.S. In 2024, goods China exported to the U.S. amounted to $439 billion, less than half Trump’s ...

Trump announced a 90-day pause in country-by-country tariffs he had unveiled a week earlier. While Trump did not lift the nearly universal 10% tariffs or count ...

On April 9 — hours after he told everyone to "BE COOL!" — Trump changed course. "I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also ...

In fact, fentanyl overdoses are commonly caused by ingesting the drug illicitly as a pill or powder. And most accidental exposures occur when people who use drugs, even those who do not use opioids, ...

As President Donald Trump targeted one of his first-term government officials, he also repeated the long debunked falsehood that the "2020 election was rigged and stolen." In an A ...

During a typical recession, consumer demand drops, meaning that companies selling products and services lower their prices (or at least not raise them) in order to entice reluctant customers to spend.

President Donald Trump provided no evidence that the U.S. was taking in almost $2 billion a day from his tariffs. The Treasury Department shows a much lower figure. The tariff col ...

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four men were enrolled in postsecondary institutions for every six women in 2023, a historic low. Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego said ...

Politicians and economists said President Donald Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariff rollout amounted to a historic tax increase. "Donald Trump just imposed the largest tax hike in our lifetime," ...

President Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year in office during his first term, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported a trade deficit of $3.7 billion. The most current data for agriculture ...