Caleb McCullough

“Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in a June 12 social media post, calling the situation absurd and in need of reform.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens said she did not take donations from two major Michigan utility companies during her U.S. Senate campaign. Their donations were made to her House committee then transferred to the current campaign.

The Michigan Senate Democratic primary is a battle between Abdul El-Sayed, a self-described progressive, and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate. We’ve fact-checked their attacks on campaign finance and AIPAC.

This article originally appeared on Michigan Democrats will pick their nominee for the U.S. Senate on Aug. 4 in a battle dominated by views on U.S.-Israel relations and the Democratic Party's future.

Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Seth Moulton faced off Monday, Aug. 3, for the U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate at WFXT Boston 25. PolitiFact fact-checked the candidates.

Influencer and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker said “America deserved 9/11” in a 2019 livestream, and later walked back the comment.

On a cool May evening, President Donald Trump stood at the under-construction Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and spoke with reporters about the project, which would become a major focus of his public remarks over the next month.

Amid war in Iran, rising gas prices and low approval ratings, PolitiFact counted nearly 45,000 words from Trump about construction

PolitiFact analyzed all of Trump’s public events and speeches over the first seven months of 2026 in which he mentioned his construction projects — including the White House ballroom and Reflecting Pool — and beautifying the nation’s capital.

A Republican senator has revived a years-old inaccurate theory that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to higher rates of miscarriages.