A: Small amounts of aluminum are sometimes included in vaccines as adjuvants, or substances that boost the body’s immune response to the vaccine to ensure protection from infection. That boost means ...

Trump’s Oct. 13 address focused on his administration’s efforts to produce an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which included a Gaza ceasefire and the release of 20 Israeli hostages, 250 ...

President Donald Trump said he’s the first US president to solve a war. Pants on Fire! At least two U.S. presidents — Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter — personally conducted negotiations that led ...

As the Trump administration pursues mortgage fraud charges against Letitia James, “there are three Cabinet members who committed mortgage fraud that he’s just letting fly.” Demonstrators gather to ...

President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on five Venezuelan boats have saved more than 100,000 lives because the maneuvers thwarted drug smuggling.

PolitiFact found two street signs (Morton Street and Glendale Lane,) at the intersection depicted in the video. Google Maps shows that the intersection where the arrest took place is in Hoffman ...

California vote-by-mail envelopes differ by county, so not all envelopes have holes and not all envelope holes reveal voting marks. However, the punched-in holes are considered best practice in the ...

As the Posse Comitatus Act has been interpreted by the courts, civilian law-enforcement officials cannot make "direct active use" of military personnel, including using federal military forces, over ...

Administration documents show that the administration’s proposed budget for WIC for the next year would cut $291 million for the program. In the short-term, the administration said it will use tariff ...

"Vaccine makers are exempt from all liability for vaccine injury and death," says the billboard, which was sponsored by West Virginians for Health Freedom, a group that advocates for parental choice ...

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President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting on the ninth day of a federal government shutdown. PolitiFact fact-checked his statements about ending seven wars, protests in Portland, pregnant women ...