China has not declared a state of emergency. PolitiFact checked multiple Chinese and U.S. government websites and found no public health emergency announcements. One of the respiratory viruses social ...

Billionaire Elon Musk leads multiple high-profile companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and X. A social media post claimed he has acquired another big company — the aviation giant Boeing Co. "2 min ago: ...

On Jan. 6, Congress certified the results of the 2024 presidential election, affirming President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. A day later, however, Trump said the vote counting continues.

The Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers may have a historic NFL rivalry, but that doesn’t mean Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy will ditch Dallas for the West Coast, as a recent Facebook post ...

Birkenfeld, a former banker for Swiss bank UBS, was imprisoned for his role in helping an American billionaire evade taxes. The IRS later gave him a $104 million whistleblower award, but no president ...

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

Mitchell County officials say it’s inaccurate, and that the nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse donated the generators and sheriff’s deputies distributed them. A Samaritan’s Purse spokesperson said the ...

The FBI said its specialists had accessed Thomas Matthew Crooks’ cellphone two days after he tried to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally. Investigators ...

We looked for news stories and police announcements about an unidentified child being found in some of the cities that the posts referred to, but found no credible evidence to corroborate the claim.

States also send official paper "certificates of vote" to the U.S. Senate, the statement said, "which are used when Congress counts the vote." We rate claims 22 states didn’t certify the election ...

When we searched using Google and the Nexis news archive, we found no credible reports or information supporting claims that there was a second attack in New Orleans in the days following the Jan. 1 ...

A Dec. 30, 2024, Instagram post shared the photo, claiming "a 57,000 square foot Temu warehouse in China went up in flames today." The photo showed a large building marked with the Temu name and logo ...