Fact-Checking

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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers speaks to members of the media, May 23, 2023, in Florham Park, N.J. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Fact-checking Aaron Rodgers, who repeated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about HIV/AIDS

Former President Donald Trump attends jury selection at Manhattan criminal court in New York, April 15, 2024. Trump's criminal hush money trial involves allegations that he falsified his company's records to hide the true nature of payments to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who helped bury negative stories about him during the 2016 presidential campaign. He's pleaded not guilty. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Trump says business records case about hush money is a ‘Biden trial.’ It’s a Manhattan trial

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$12 million Global Fact Check Fund opens applications for second year of grants

Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 9, 2023.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

‘Satanic rituals’ at Taylor Swift shows? That’s false. And experts say the attack isn’t new.

Stormy Daniels arrives at an event in Berlin, on Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

No, Stormy Daniels didn’t ‘exonerate’ Donald Trump

Taylor Swift performs as part of the "Eras Tour" at the Tokyo Dome, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Toru Hanai)

Taylor Swift has not endorsed Joe Biden for president