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Project 2025 Series Wins National Headliner Award

FactCheck.org has won a National Headliner Award for online beat reporting of government and political coverage. Our series on “How Project 2025 Has Unfolded...

The Persistent Misleading Claim That Vaccines Aren’t Properly Tested for Safety

It’s a common, misleading refrain in anti-vaccine circles: Childhood vaccines may be unsafe because few if any have been tested in placebo-controlled trials before...

Trump’s Numbers, April 2026 Update

Summary Under President Donald Trump’s second term: Job growth slowed, with a total of 369,000 jobs created as of March. The unemployment rate ticked up to...

We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award

We’re honored to have won the 2026 Webby People’s Voice Award in the category for Websites and Mobile Sites: News & Politics. Thank you...

What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?

Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S....

Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut

Following an executive order from the Trump administration that promotes production of glyphosate, some Democrats have claimed that the herbicide causes cancer. The science,...

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