FACT CHECK

Q: Does Barack Obama still owe contractors or subcontractors money for work done on his presidential library in Chicago? A: Some subcontractors have said they were not paid for their work. The Obama Foundation told us that the construction project manager (Lakeside Alliance) has the “primary responsibility” to “hire and manage all the subcontractors for […]

FactCheck.org has won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists. This is our fourth win in the fact-checking category and our fifth award from SPJ overall. The post FactCheck.org Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award for Fact-Checking appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Ads in the Alaska Senate race are trading competing claims about former Rep. Mary Peltola's votes on military pay raises. The post Alaska Senate Race Ads Mislead on Peltola’s Votes on Military Pay Raise appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Q: Is President Trump the anonymous 79-year-old man getting a still-unapproved obesity drug via a Food and Drug Administration program? A: A news article, and subsequently Democratic lawmakers, questioned whether Trump is receiving the Eli Lilly weight-loss drug, which is reportedly being given to one 79-year-old man. However, the White House has said the unnamed […]

Sen. Susan Collins helped pass a 2012 law that affirmed that members of Congress are not exempt from insider-trading laws and required members to more promptly disclose their trades of stocks and other investments. But an ad from a pro-Democrat group falsely claims that the Republican senator “doesn’t think” that insider trading “should be illegal.” […]

Politicians of both political parties have blamed either the Trump or the Biden administration for the arrival of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that affects the cattle industry, in the U.S. after decades of eradication. But experts say the reasons are different or more complicated than either side is saying — and that […]

After the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, the president called on Congress to end it through legislation, saying a "long and unwieldy" constitutional amendment was not necessary. But constitutional and immigration law experts disagree. The post Trump’s Dubious Claim that Birthright Citizenship Could Still Be Overturned […]

President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals for damaging the new blue lining of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which is now peeling, as well as for algae in the water. But the administration has not provided evidence to back up the president's claims. Experts say the pool’s ills have a variety of plausible explanations […]

President Donald Trump signed a preliminary agreement to end the war with Iran on June 17. But some of what is included in the framework — or not — is at odds with what Trump said about a potential deal prior to approving the memorandum of understanding last week. The post How Trump’s Preliminary Deal […]

As he has done for years, President Donald Trump claims – without evidence – that the federal Right to Try law he signed in 2018 has “saved thousands of lives.” Researchers who have long studied access to investigational drugs say the president is greatly exaggerating. The post No Evidence for Trump’s Right to Try Claim […]