Author name: Lance Hudgins

A viral video shared on Facebook purports Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made a speech rejecting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Proposed Pandemic Accord a week before he was shot. Verdict: Misleading While the speech does show Fico’s opposition to the accords, the original video took place in November 2023, not recently. Fact Check: A

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Then-Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the ban into law in May 2013. The court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari, according to a list of orders released Monday. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Republican AGs Join Push To Strike

A post shared on Facebook claims Boy Scouts of America lost $250 million in funding after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the organization “woke.”  Verdict: False The claim was originally uploaded to a site known to publish satirical material. Fact Check: Boy Scouts of America has announced that it will be changing its name to

A post shared on social media purports that actor Dwayne Johnson quit Hollywood to work in Elon Musk’s new film studio. Verdict: False The claim is from a satirical news outlet. Fact Check: Musk recently announced that the full rebrand of Twitter to X is final after the comapny moved to the “X.com” domain from “Twitter.com,” according

Former President Donald Trump has led President Joe Biden in nearly every poll this cycle in Nevada — a state that hasn’t gone Republican in 20 years. A Nevada victory would net Trump six electoral votes in November, a margin that could prove decisive in handing the former president a second term. Trump boasts his

President Joe Biden attempted to appeal to black voters Sunday during his commencement speech at Morehouse College by invoking the memory of George Floyd, however, some students could be seen silently protesting. Biden appeared at the historically black private university for men in Atlanta as the 2024’s graduating classes’ commencement speaker. The president had been

The Democratic nominee for Maryland’s Senate race has repeatedly distanced herself from corporate interests, but a slew of corporate lobbyists have flooded her campaign with cash. Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks on April 26 stated that she is “not beholden to large corporate interests like Big Oil, Big Pharma, or the Big Gun Lobby,” and

President Joe Biden’s signature pieces of legislation are routing billions of dollars into swing states, but pundits are not convinced that the money will make much difference in November’s elections. The bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021, the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have cumulatively routed billions of dollars to battleground states over

A congressman indicted for a bribery scheme involving the Azerbaijani government has spent over half of his campaign cash this cycle on legal services, records show. Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar spent more than $750,000 on payments to various law firms during the 2024 election cycle as authorities investigated him for accepting foreign bribes, constituting

President Joe Biden has a new problem cropping up in polling data: more Americans now dismiss even the possibility of voting for him. Among likely voters living in six key swing states, 51% say there’s “not really any chance” they’d vote for Biden, compared to just 46% saying the same thing about former President Donald