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For fiscal year 2026, which began Oct. 1, 2025, Trump capped refugee admissions at just 7,500. In the first six months of the ...

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An online ad attacks Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, for not being sufficiently ...

Former President Joe Biden’s office announced on May 18 that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer ...

The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on ...

Seth Moulton, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, for not being sufficiently progressive because of past policy positions. But it also misleadingly claims that Moulton, a critic ...

A timeline of Trump statements about the Iraq war, before and after it started, from September 2002 to December 2003. By Eugene Kiely Posted on February 19, 2016 Donald Trump has repeated throughout ...

An online ad attacks Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, for not being sufficiently progressive because of past policy positions. But it also misleadingly ...

It’s a common, misleading refrain in anti-vaccine circles: Childhood vaccines may be unsafe because few if any have been tested in placebo-controlled trials before being approved. But that claim ...

Elon Musk this week amplified an unfounded claim, based on a distortion of vaccine safety monitoring data, that COVID-19 ...

Our first quarterly update of various economic and social indicators under Trump’s second term as president. Spending to build, expand and rehabilitate manufacturing sites in the U.S. has declined ...