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Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

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Fact-checking El-Sayed, McMorrow and Stevens in Michigan Senate debate

Fact-checking Michigan Democratic Senate debate

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WNY Independent Living Expands Services with New Jamestown Satellite Office

Jamestown, NY — May 27, 2026 —Western New York...

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Courage (sort of) and cowardice (definitely)

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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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