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The candidates squabbled over electability, corruption and support for Israel. They also discussed former President Donald Trump’s recent comments on immigration, inflation and how he’d handle a second presidency.

Messi has boosted the profile of Inter Miami CF, but the rumors about other players’ moms filing a complaint about him aren’t true. The story originated on a satire site.

In the political debate around gender-affirming care for youth, discussion of puberty blockers is often saturated with rhetoric, creating confusion and generating misinformation. PolitiFact answers some of the big questions around the drugs.

A president can deploy the military to a foreign country only if there is an “imminent attack” or if it is in the United States’ national interest. Only Congress has the power to declare war.

Eight Republican presidential candidates — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — sparred over foreign aid, abortion limits and climate change in the first GOP primary debate. PolitiFact and WLRN fact checked their statements.

As eight Republican candidates — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — faced off in Milwaukee for the first presidential primary debate, PolitiFact and WLRN fact-checked their statements.

WLRN and PolitiFact will be live fact-checking candidates’ claims about their records and their attacks on Democrats, President Joe Biden and one another during Wednesday night's debate, which begins at 9 p.m. Here is what you need to know ahead of it.

With record-setting temperatures worldwide this summer, cities are confronting the problem of “urban heat islands,” areas that experience higher temperatures because of dense building and lack of green space.

Although Biden has signed legislation and taken executive actions intended to curb climate change, he has not signed a formal emergency declaration. It's prompted many environmental groups to take that step.

The federal indictment against Donald Trump over efforts to subvert 2020 election results said the former president had a right to speak publicly about the election.

FBI Director Christopher Wray referred a legislator to the U.S attorney’s office in Delaware when asked in a House Judiciary Committee hearing whether President Joe Biden had received payments from Ukraine.

Vice President Kamala Harris said some states have tried "to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history." Her spokesperson cited two examples — and one of them doesn’t back up her claim.