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RFK Jr.’s Misleading Line on the Chickenpox Vaccine
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne…
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Q&A on Trump’s Prescription Drug Pricing Executive Order
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In signing an executive order aimed at reducing U.S. drug prices, President Donald Trump said some prices would be cut in half or more “almost immediately.” But the order is light on details of how the plan would be implemented. Trump said during a May 12…
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Unwrapping Qatar’s $400 Million Winged Gift to Trump
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Days before leaving on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East, news reports surfaced that President Donald Trump planned to accept a Boeing 747-8 jet from the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar to replace the aging Air Force One aircrafts currently used by the president.…
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Yes, China makes about 80% of toys sold in the U.S.
Whether you’re gift-wrapping a toy car, or hanging Christmas ornaments, there’s a strong chance you’re handling products made in a Chinese factory. The day after President Donald Trump said during an interview about his tariff policies that girls in the U.S. don’t need to “have 30 dolls,” some political commentators discussed China’s influence over the…
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Intelligence Memo Undercuts Trump’s Immigration Argument
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. When the Washington Post reported via anonymous sources that a government intelligence assessment concluded the Venezuelan government was not directing the migration of members of the Trenreport de Aragua gang to the United States, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, dismissed such reports and…
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Fact-check: Is the new pope a “registered Republican”?
The newly chosen Roman Catholic pope, Robert Prevost — Pope Leo XIV — is the first U.S.-born pontiff. Is he also a “registered Republican,” as social media posts said? “SCOOP: Our Turning Point Action team pulled the voting history for Pope Leo XIV,” conservative influencer Charlie Kirk wrote May 8 on X. “He’s a registered…
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Was Record of Heroic Nurse Wiped from Defense Department Archives?
Q. Did President Donald Trump call military nurse Ruby Bradley a “loser,” and were there orders for her service history to be removed from Department of Defense archives? A. There’s no evidence for these claims. We could find no record of Trump referring to nurse Ruby Bradley, who received 34 medals for her service during…
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No, immigrants in US illegally aren’t due process exempt
President Donald Trump has twice sworn to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” But about three months after repeating that pledge during his second presidential inauguration, Trump said “I don’t know” when asked whether he needed to uphold the Constitution. Trump was answering a question about whether immigrants in the U.S. illegally…
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The Possible Source of Trump’s False $2 Gasoline Claim
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is still over $3, and no state has an average price below $2.60. But since mid-April, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed, repeatedly, that gasoline prices “hit $1.98 a gallon” in multiple states. Now we…
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Have there been $10 trillion in US investments under Trump?
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has touted corporate and foreign U.S. investment announcements as proof he is ushering in “the golden age of America.” On Jan. 21, Trump said that before he’d finished the “first full business day” of his second term, the U.S. had “already secured nearly $3 trillion of…
