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Jericho Road wins state funding to grow WNY healthcare workforce
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What we know about Pentagon’s FORTRESS initiative to keep military bases running off-grid
Some people claimed the initiative requires bases to ensure they can operate for at least 90 days without civilian power, fuel, water or supply lines.
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GOP pundits’ swipe at Obama instantly backfires amid cheesecake fiasco: ‘No, darling’
A pair of GOP tried to defend President Donald Trump's White House renovations on Monday night, only for their remarks to instantly backfire. Trump erupted Monday when he was asked by reporters about former President Barack Obama's claim that Trump had the White House looking…
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Disturbing scheme flagged in Trump DOJ midterm lawsuit: ‘Not even pretending!’
A political analyst spotted a disturbing scheme tucked away in the Department of Justice's lawsuit seeking to preemptively halt the certification of the state's Senate election. Last week, President Donald Trump's DOJ asked a federal court to halt the certification if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan…
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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell – In Spanish ad, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell misleads on Rick Scott’s position on abortion exceptions
Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.
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Tim Walz – J.D. Vance wrote the foreword for Project 2025’s Kevin Roberts’ upcoming book
J.D. Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda."
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Jesse Watters – Gov. Tim Walz signed law requiring period products in school bathrooms, not necessarily boys’ rooms
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “forced schools to stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms.”
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Instagram posts – The audience at Harris’ Arizona rally was not made up of paid actors
Craigslist ad shows “every single person” at Kamala Harris’ Arizona rally was paid.
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Donald Trump – Donald Trump is wrong. These images of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 Detroit rally are corroborated, not AI.
Photo of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 rally near Detroit was AI-generated and “there was nobody there.” Attendees pictured “didn’t exist.”
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Federal appeals court rules in favor of PolitiFact and Meta against Children’s Health Defense
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in PolitiFact’s favor in a lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense, an organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The organization sued Poynter following a fact-check about the flu vaccine.
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Jericho Road wins state funding to grow WNY healthcare workforce
Jericho Road Community Health Center has been selected to...
Fact Check
What we know about Pentagon’s FORTRESS initiative to keep military bases running off-grid
Some people claimed the initiative requires bases to ensure they can operate for at least 90 days without civilian power, fuel, water or supply lines.
National News
GOP pundits’ swipe at Obama instantly backfires amid cheesecake fiasco: ‘No, darling’
A pair of GOP tried to defend President Donald Trump's White House renovations on Monday night, only for their remarks to instantly backfire. Trump erupted Monday when he was asked by reporters about former President Barack Obama's claim that Trump had the White House looking…
National News
Disturbing scheme flagged in Trump DOJ midterm lawsuit: ‘Not even pretending!’
A political analyst spotted a disturbing scheme tucked away in the Department of Justice's lawsuit seeking to preemptively halt the certification of the state's Senate election. Last week, President Donald Trump's DOJ asked a federal court to halt the certification if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan…
National News
‘Spun themselves into a frenzy!’ MS NOW’s Jen Psaki mocks MAGA Cheesecake Factory meltdown
MS NOW’s Jen Psaki opened her show eight days before the midterms by mocking Republicans’ outrage over a joke former President Barack Obama made about President Donald Trump’s gold-heavy White House renovations.Psaki played a clip of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outside a Washington Cheesecake Factory,…
