41 minutes of fear: A timeline from inside the Capitol siege
WASHINGTON - At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Donald Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side...
Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol
Two previously unreported video clips obtained by The Washington Post shed new light on the fatal shooting by police of Trump supporter and Air Force...
Swept up in the federal response to Portland protests: ‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’
The cases of unsuspecting people scooped from the streets by federal agents in the middle of the night bring to light the tactics employed by...
Analysis: President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims | Analysis
On July 9, President Donald Trump crossed the 20,000 mark for false and misleading claims, according to The Washington Post's Fact Checker tally.
Fact check: Was the new coronavirus accidentally released from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful.
President Trump and his aides have speculated the new coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Here's why scientists say that is almost certainly wrong.
The Washington Post fact-checks the seventh Democratic primary debate
Tuesday night's debate did not have many statements that merited fact-checking. Here are eight claims that caught our attention, mainly about the Iraq war and...
Impeachment probe leads to an explosion of false and misleading claims from Trump
WASHINGTON – In 2017, President Donald Trump made nearly 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added another 5,689, for a total of 7,688....
Fact-checking the second Democratic debate, night 1: Off notes on climate, economy
In the second debate of the Democratic primary season (part one), 10 presidential hopefuls came prepared with facts and figures, some of which were overstated...