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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.
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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.
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Although immigration authorities nationwide have encountered migrants nearly 7 million times during Biden’s presidency, that doesn’t mean 7 million people have crossed into the country. Customs and Border Protection’s data tracks events, not people.
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Florida’s new immigration law includes penalties for employers who hire people who aren’t legally authorized to work in the U.S. Although, seasonal workers are not specifically mentioned in the law.
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In a 2015 interview, before he was president, Donald Trump said he was "fine" with affirmative action. Later, when Trump was president, his administration took actions seeking to leverage federal government policy against affirmative action.
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PolitiFact and WLRN explain the slight tend of more Floridians moving to California per capita rather than the other way around.
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WLRN and PolitiFact investigated defenses posed by former President Donald Trump when talking about the federal investigation into his handling of classified documents.
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Florida school districts have removed some books entirely while restricting others to certain grades or requiring students to get parental permission to see them.
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A pro-Trump political action committee, MAGA Inc., is portraying Gov. Ron DeSantis as a weak pandemic leader and a fan of COVID-19 lockdowns, ignoring that DeSantis was among the early wave of governors to reopen states.
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Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talked at length about Florida’s newest immigration policies and the uptick in immigration across the country is directly affecting Miami-Dade County Public Schools. PolitiFact and WLRN explain that his claim is true.
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PolitiFact and WLRN fact-checked claims about critical race theory, immigration and school book bans made by Gov. DeSantis' during his presidential announcement with Elon Musk on Twitter.
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The Walt Disney Co. pulled the plug on a nearly $1 billion regional headquarters it had planned for Orlando. By walking away, Disney forwent a chance to earn up to $570 million, a historic sum, in tax credits. PolitiFact, in partnership with WLRN, explains.