For the past 15 years, the fact-checkers at PolitiFact have sorted through hundreds of statements by politicians to name the "Lie of the Year." This year, the editors dubbed 2025 the "Year of the Lies." Lisa Desjardins discussed more with PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders. A warning: Some images in this story are disturbing. | PBS NewsHour
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For the past 15 years, the fact-checkers at PolitiFact have sorted through hundreds of statements by politicians to name the "Lie of the Year." This year, the editors dubbed 2025 the "Year of the Lies." Lisa Desjardins discussed more with PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders. A warning: Some images in this story are disturbing. | PBS NewsHour
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A false statement spread by the incoming president and vice president about Haitian immigrants in a southwestern Ohio city was named @PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2024. In early September, then-GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance amplified a false claim that had spread on social media about immigrants from Haiti living in Springfield, Ohio, stealing people's pets and eating them. During the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, then-Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated the claims.
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A false statement spread by the incoming president and vice president about Haitian immigrants in a southwestern Ohio city was named @PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2024. In early September, then-GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance amplified a false claim that had spread on social media about immigrants from Haiti living in Springfield, Ohio, stealing people's pets and eating them. During the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, then-Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated the claims.
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President Donald Trump spread multiple falsehoods on immigration, renewable energy use and his involvement in ending wars during his address Tuesday morning at the United Nations General Assembly. Among his false claims, he said that China builds wind farms, but does not use them in its own country. In fact, China outpaced all countries last year by increasing its wind and solar power production. He also repeated his claim that he “ended seven wars.” While Trump has played a role in internationa
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Would eradicating fraud on the state level lead to a balanced federal budget overnight, as the president said during his 2026 State of the Union address? The short answer: No, according to our partners at PolitiFact. PolitiFact Reporter Maria Ramirez Uribe shares more about what her team found. | PBS NewsHour
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How does the recent spate of political violence fit in the nation's history? The assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk is the latest in a list of acts that targeted political figures, or had ties to political or governmental institutions. Just this year, the list includes the fatal shooting of a Minnesota Democratic state legislator and her husband, the intentional torching of the Pennsylvania governor’s residence, the shooting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement of
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President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Washington, D.C.'s homicide rate is higher than the "worst places on Earth" as he announced his plans to take over the city's police department. During the news conference, Trump said D.C. has 41 homicides per 100,000 people. "No.1 that we can find anywhere in the world," he said. “Other cities are pretty bad, but they’re not as bad as that.” That's false, says PolitiFact's Maria Ramirez Uribe. She takes a closer look into Trump's claims as he deploys N
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President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the United States is the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting. “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting,” Trump wrote on social media. "All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED." Many countries use mail-in ballots, including Australia and Canada. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a Swedish organization that advocates for democracy globally, found i
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In the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, some Republicans began resurfacing unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 election. One example came from filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, whose viral post on X Nov. 6 read, “Kamala got 60 million votes in 2024. Does anyone really believe Biden got 80 million in 2020? Where did those 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is, they never existed. I think we can put the lie about Biden’s 80 million votes to rest once and for a
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President Donald Trump has cast himself as a "peacemaker," claiming he has stopped six wars. "I’ve ended six wars and I thought this maybe would be the easiest one,” Trump said Monday about Russia's war with Ukraine, while meeting at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Trump administration claimed to have helped settle the conflicts between Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted this week to stop recommending flu vaccines containing the vaccine preservative thimerosal. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has claimed thimerosal is harmful and causes autism, fired the 17 members of the independent group that provides vaccine recommendations to the CDC and replaced them with seven new members, including several vaccine skeptics. Numerous studi
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Donald Trump comments on immigration -- in 2015 and 2024 #newhampshire #donaldtrump
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Speaker Johnson walks back saying Trump informed on Epstein to FBI. We examined the timeline
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