SAN FRANCISCO — Despite escalating pressure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Facebook reaffirmed its freewheeling policy on political ads Thursday, saying it won’t ban them, won’t fact-check them and won’t limit how they can be targeted to specific groups of people. Instead, Facebook said it will offer users slightly more control...
Fact Check: Trump Team Warps Omar's Words on 9/11, Al Qaida
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump attributed statements to a Democratic congresswoman that she didn't make as he set off an incendiary week of vilification with accusations that she and three other lawmakers of color hate America. One of his top White House advisers, Stephen Miller, reinforced the charges Sunday, pointing to...
AP Fact Check: Newsom Wrong on Illegal Border Crossings
SAN DIEGO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted part of his first State of the State address to attacking President Donald Trump's positions on illegal immigration, declaring, "This border emergency is nothing more than a manufactured crisis and California will not be part of this political theater." His rhetoric in...
Washington Post Fact Checks John Cox's Claim About His Childhood
Glenn Kessler — who writes researches and writes The Fact Checker for The Washington Post — decided to investigate this oft-repeated statement by California gubernatorial candidate John Cox: "I'm not part of the political class. I was raised by a single mom, public school teacher on the South Side of Chicago."...
Trump's Claims on California Wildfires Inaccurate: AP Fact Check
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is claiming that California's water policy is shortchanging firefighters of water to battle the state's raging wildfires. That's not so, according to wildfire and water experts. TRUMP: "California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren't allowing...
AP Fact Check: Trump Wrong To Say Records Show FBI Cover-Up
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is mischaracterizing newly released FBI documents on the agency's wiretapping of Carter Page, a one-time campaign adviser. Among his false claims is that the FBI relied on a politically tainted source and withheld that aspect from the court. The documents, available online after media outlets sued for...
With Deficit Ballooning, Trump Wants More Tax Cuts
The Congressional Budget Office and other nonpartisan analyses project that President Donald Trump's tax cuts passed in December will add more than $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. For those keeping track at home, fortune.com reports that the U.S. deficit — relative to the economy’s size — is...
AP Fact Check: Trump's Take on Immigrant Crime Off Mark
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got some crime and immigration statistics right Friday but was off the mark on others in an appearance with those he calls "angel families" — people who lost loved ones at the hands of those living in the country illegally. A look at how his...