Amy Sherman | PolitiFact

If the administration does what one official described, it would change H-1B visa rules to favor employers that pay higher wages. That could effectively transform the visa into what one expert called "a luxury work permit" and disadvantage early-career workers with smaller salaries, including teachers

PolitiFact Florida explores House Speaker Mike Johnson's larger point about what Democrat lawmakers said before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case.

President Donald Trump and his allies have tried to steer discussion about the Jeffrey Epstein case away from Trump and instead use it to attack Democrats, including former President Barack Obama. In an interview with CNN," U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., blamed Obama for the "sweetheart deal" given to Epstein, a sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019. PolitiFact and WLRN assess whether this is true or not.

President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who ordered a temporary stop to deportation flights of Venezuelans under the use of a 1798 law.

A January U.S. Agency for International Development report said that in 2024, 12.1% of the agency’s money went directly to local organizations in foreign countries.

Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint for a Republican administration, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "should be broken up and downsized."

Trump tried to describe some of those issues during a Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York. But in his telling, the community’s leaders have taken extreme measures to assist Haitian children in public schools, including hiring a private interpreter for every student.

Project 2025, the guidebook of presidential policy recommendations written by conservative activists, provides few details about its voting recommendations, making it hard to say how voting rights could be affected if the proposals were to be enacted.

The Trump and Harris campaigns responded to our query about Trump’s rally claim with multiple citations of Harris statements; we found many more through our own research.

In Trump’s home state of Florida, where he is registered to vote, the Department of State website says that "a felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where the person was convicted."

PolitiFact fact-checks several of the former president's statements and claims about his New York case.

In a 12-minute address at Hillsborough Community College, Biden warned of "extreme" laws that restrict abortion access, and he blamed Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, for making those policies possible.