Caleb McCullough

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said his Republican opponent Mike Rogers “kicked off” the opioid epidemic. Rogers pushed policy to expand opioid access for chronic pain patients, but it didn’t launch a national crisis.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has revived a years-old inaccurate theory that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to higher rates of miscarriages.

The Republican National Committee slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his comments about ‘public control’ of AI tech companies as ‘communist-style.’ Here are the facts about the proposal.

Democrats Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Seth Moulton traded barbs on affordability, trans athletes and the Iran war at their final debate ahead of the Massachusetts Sept. 1 Senate primary election. PolitiFact fact-checked their remarks.

Campaign ads in several midterm elections portray Democrats as “radical” on transgender youth medical care and sports participation. Republicans are leaning on a strategy that proved successful in 2024.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said you’d need to send 38,000 ChatGPT messages to use the amount of water needed to grow one California almond. That skews the estimates for both almonds’ and AI’s water demands.

Recounting his response after the 9/11 attack, President Donald Trump said he brought workers to the site and was carried off by firefighters during an evacuation. We looked into the facts behind Trump’s stories.

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Trump was near Ground Zero days after the attacks. But evidence remains lacking for his claims that he aided recovery efforts and brought hundreds of workers.

For most of human history, about half of children died before puberty, with disease as a major contributor.