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President Donald Trump speaks about prescription drug prices in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FACT FOCUS: Trump falsely accuses Maryland of sending ‘illegal’ mail-in ballots to voters

President Donald Trump has falsely accused Maryland officials, including Gov. Wes Moore, of illegally sending hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots to voters in an effort ensure victory for Democrats.

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American Electric Power's John Amos coal-fired power plant in Winfield, W.Va., is seen across the Kanawha River from Poca, W.Va., March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming

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Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Health advice is all over social media. Here’s how to vet claims

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies hearing on the Agriculture Department budget for fiscal year 2027 on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FACT FOCUS: Why nearly 4.3 million people are no longer receiving food stamps

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Journalists that were in attendance for the White House Correspondents Dinner prepare for a press briefing at the Washington Hilton following an incident that disrupted the event, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Reporters covered the correspondents’ dinner shooting in real time. Conspiracy theories still spread

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Images of NYC Mayor Mamdani with Jeffrey Epstein are AI-generated. Here’s how we know

Images circulating online that show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child with millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are generated by artificial intelligence.

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FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

How conspiracy theories about missing or dead scientists went from online forums to the White House

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Chris Klomp, director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, right, speaks as President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listen during an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FACT FOCUS: RFK Jr. misleads on Medicaid cuts

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the House Education and Workforce Committee to defend his agency's policies and goals at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FACT FOCUS: RFK Jr. says the US is limiting measles outbreaks better than the rest of the world

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This image from video provided by U.S. South Command, shows a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean shortly before it was destroyed by the U.S. military, killing two and injuring one, on Jan. 23, 2026. (U.S. Southern Command via AP, File)

FACT FOCUS: Trump says drug trafficking by sea is down 98.2%. The numbers don’t show that

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In this image from video circulating on social media, protesters dance and cheer around a bonfire as they take to the streets of Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP, File)

It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills

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President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

FACT FOCUS: False claims Trump made as he addressed the nation about Iran

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Democratic candidate for Congress, Kat Abughazaleh, center, casts her vote in a primary election for the upcoming midterms, in Chicago, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

FACT FOCUS: Only some driver’s licenses usable for voter registration under the SAVE America Act

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

RFK Jr. makes food sound like a miracle drug. Researchers say he often overstates the science

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Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during an annual Carter Town Hall held at Emory University in Atlanta, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

FACT FOCUS: The Trump administration is falsely claiming Jimmy Carter was against mail-in voting

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Plumes of smoke rise as strikes hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war

People take shelter in an underground parking lot as air raid sirens warning of incoming Iranian missile strikes in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

FACT FOCUS: Misrepresented images as Iran war progresses

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The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort docks at the Cristobal port, operated by the Panama Ports Company, in Colon, Panama, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Trump cites health care issues in Greenland saying he’s sending a hospital ship. His claims are off

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Republican members of Congress stand while Democrats keep their seats during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump’s false and misleading claims in his State of the Union speech

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President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter during an event with Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin to announce the EPA will no longer regulate greenhouse gases, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Boy who appeared in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is not the 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minneapolis

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs have created an economic miracle. The facts tell a different story

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Memorial Circle, the proposed plot of land near Memorial Bridge where the Independence Arch could be built is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Trump says Washington has waited 200 years for the arch he wants to build. Not quite

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A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is photographed Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, shows the report when Epstein was taken into custody on July 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

FACT FOCUS: Images of NYC mayor with Jeffrey Epstein are AI-generated. Here’s how we know

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President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

False and misleading claims made during Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of 2026

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