Author name: Lance Hudgins

A video shared on Instagram purports to show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blaming her 2016 presidential election loss as well as late financier turned sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s death on climate change. Screenshot captured via Instagram Verdict: False The video is altered. In the original video, which was shared on YouTube, Clinton discusses

A video shared on X, formerly Twitter, purports to show a child in Gaza hugging a tree after surviving a recent bombing amid the current Israel-Hamas conflict. A child from Gaza lost his home and his family, and the bombing was chasing him from every direction, so he took refuge in a tree and embraced

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota accused MSNBC of blackballing him due to influence of President Joe Biden’s campaign, according to Politico. Phillips has mounted a primary challenge to Biden and has also expressed frustration at state Democratic parties and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for leaving him off the ballot. Now he is accusing

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul weighed in on the GOP presidential primary on Friday, announcing in a series of social media posts that he is strongly against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s White House bid just days ahead of the Jan. 15 Iowa caucus. While Paul said he isn’t ready to make an endorsement yet

President Joe Biden called the Iran-backed Houthi rebels a terrorist group on Friday despite taking them off the State Department’s list of terror groups in 2021. Biden ordered a military strike on the Houthis in Yemen on Thursday after the group launched at least 27 attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden and

The New York Times reported that “some U.S. allies” in the Middle East criticized the U.S. strikes on the Houthi rebels. Screenshot/New York Times Verdict: Unsubstantiated The NYT article initially noted a single U.S. ally, Oman. The article was later corrected and updated, though Turkey, another U.S. ally, did condemn the airstrikes. Fact Check: The

A record low percentage of Americans identified as Democrats in 2023 ahead of a contentious presidential election year, according to a Friday poll. Only 27% of Americans self-identify as Democrats, reaching the smallest figure for the party in Gallup’s recorded history, according to the survey. Republicans received the same amount of support, though it didn’t

The FBI possesses another FD-1023 document related to bribery allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said in a Thursday letter. Jordan wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding an FBI FD-1023 form created in March 2017 with information from a confidential human source about alleged foreign payments

An image shared on Facebook purports to show a TRUTH Social post from former President Donald Trump insulting journalist Laura Loomer, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Verdict: False The post is not genuine. The post does not appear on Trump’s TRUTH Social account, and there is

Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce chided first lady Jill Biden for not trying to prevent her husband from running for reelection on Fox Business’ “Varney & Company” Friday. The first lady said Biden’s “age is an asset” when asked to respond to concerns about how elderly he is in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”