Fact check: Did Trump's rollback of rail rules contribute to Ohio disaster?
The Washington Post examined every regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could have had an...
Fact-checking the Buttigieg-Rubio grudge match over rail safety
The transportation secretary and the Florida Republican traded sharp words after the East Palestine train derailment. We assess their debate.
Fact check on Biden’s linking of COVID to a spike in violent crime
In his State of the Union address, the president left out half of the story on the pandemic and the rise in violent crime.
Biden’s 2022 State of the Union proposals: What flopped and what succeeded | Analysis
Analysis: With Democrats only narrowly in control of the House and Senate in 2022, Biden’s track record on legislation is mixed.
Fact check: Laptop email suggests Hunter Biden read newspapers, not classified documents
Republicans claim the president's son wrote a 2014 email with inside information. But the facts he cited could be found in news reports at the...
Fact check: McCarthy puts a misleading spin on math to justify debt-limit fight
A closer look at the House speaker's shiny new talking point shows it's a cleverly misleading claim. Let's dig into why it ranks Three Pinocchios.
Fact check: McCarthy’s specious attacks on Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell
The House speaker's reasons for booting the California Democrats off the House Intelligence Committee don't add up.
Fact check: What we know so far on Biden, Trump and classified documents
Elected officials' handling of sensitive government material has been the subject of fierce political debates. Here are the basics of Biden's situation.
‘87,000 IRS agents’ is the zombie falsehood setting the House agenda
Fact-checking the Republican claim that Democrats want to add 87,000 IRS agents.