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A photo shared on Facebook claims to show complex architecture underneath the Capitol building.  Verdict: False The image is not genuine, but instead was created with artificial intelligence (AI). It contains a watermark for a site that shows a gallery for AI images. Fact Check: The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building on

Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr introduced legislation Friday that would amend the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits program to include retired law enforcement who are killed or who suffer a permanent injury as a result of their work on the front lines. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the bill, which is titled the

A post  shared on social media  purports Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer was forced off the senate floor in chaos. The claim is inaccurate. No such event occurred on the Senate floor. Schumer has defended comments about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that his criticism of the Prime Minister was to save Israel,  The

A post shared on Facebook claims the U.S. Special Forces purportedly destroyed an Air Force plane at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska recently. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Mar. 19 article published on the satire site “Real Raw News.” Fact Check: Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School, a school

Former President Donald Trump claimed during a March 5 speech that he defeated the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in four weeks. Verdict: False Trump claimed victory over ISIS in Syria in December 2018, nearly two years into his presidency. The last stretch of ISIS-held territory was liberated by US-backed forces in March

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher announced Friday that he will be resigning from Congress early, leaving House Republicans with a razor-thin majority. “After conversations with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position as a member of the House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s Eighth Congressional District, effective April 19, 2024,” Gallagher said

The White House blamed former President Donald Trump for new, dramatic video of illegal immigrants storming across the border, tearing down a barrier and overwhelming the Texas National Guard Thursday in a statement shared with the Daily Caller. Illegal immigrants were caught at the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday pulling a barrier open while four National Guardsmen

A post  shared on social media purportedly shows footage of French President Emmanuel Macron in the 1990s dancing in a wig. Macron before the beginning of political life! 1998, dancing at the disco with a wig pic.twitter.com/OUWz96DEmZ — AN (@FunFact75878288) March 16, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is inaccurate. Fact Check: France’s First Lady Brigitte

PALM BEACH — Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump, opened its tightly secured gates Tuesday evening to welcome hundreds attending “Catholic Prayer for Trump.” The gala served as a gathering of Catholic leaders to pray for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “as he continues to get attacked from all sides,” according to

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion Friday morning for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to vacate the chair. Greene called on Johnson to not bring the $1.2 trillion spending bill to the floor for a vote, calling it “a Chuck Schumer, Democrat-controlled bill coming from the ‘Republican-controlled’ House.” She would have