Facts and Fact Checking

In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distorted scientific research to argue that there is an “epidemic” of autism that must be due to an “environmental toxin.”

Politicians always lie, and when those politicians are Democrats, they typically have the media on their side. But rarely have the Democrats had so much success in roping in the news media to misrepresent the facts so blatantly as they did in President Donald Trump’s first term regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Future students of media and politics ought to study the coverage of TCJA as an extreme case in how partisans, acting together with a friendly media, can cause huge swaths of the public to believe verifiably false things.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a private jet to travel between Bakersfield and Sacramento, California, during their "Fighting Oligarchy tour."

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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on May 15 in a case concerning the Trump administration's efforts to end birthright citizenship. However, the justices will not be ruling on the constitutionality of the policy itself. Instead, they will consider whether lower court judges overstepped by issuing nationwide injunctions that blocked the policy from taking effect.

Several times over the last week, President Donald Trump has assured Americans that the prices of eggs and gasoline are down significantly. But he has made false claims about the cost of both products.

“Prices are going down, not going up,” Trump said in Oval Office remarks on April 22, for example. “I see that we had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon. Nobody thought they’d see that for years maybe.”

While 19 state attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, filed a lawsuit challenging a recent executive order involving election reforms, the lawsuit makes no attempt to establish noncitizen voting rights. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

In March 2019, an immigration judge denied a bond request from Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, writing that the determination he is a gang member "appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record," citing a police department’s gang interview field sheet. The decision was upheld on appeal.

The Supreme Court ruled on the evening of April 10 that the Trump administration must comply with a lower court’s order to “facilitate” the release from custody of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was deported without a hearing to a mega prison in El Salvador. The case underscores the issue of due process and what legal protections are afforded to noncitizens.

The death of Pope Francis has just set in motion the political process for the Catholic Church to select a new leader.

The process of the conclave

About 8.8 percent of people who received an abortion in Nevada in 2024 had traveled from out of state. That’s a 47.4 percent drop in travel compared with 2023.  AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on The Nevada Independent.