Congress hasn’t increased its pay since 2009, so the idea that it would propose nearly $70,000 raises in stopgap legislation caught our attention. We found that the Department of Government Efficiency ...

New Jersey drones are searching for missing radioactive material. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reported a piece of equipment used in medical imaging scanners that contained a ...

"The city of… is being warned to be alert & vigilant as there is a serial killer on the run,” Robert Thibodeau. Several local authorities nationwide have debunked this serial killer claim and have ...

With a busy 2024 heading toward a close, PolitiFact readers sent us thoughtful questions and plenty of election-year feedback through email and social media comments. Readers weighed in on the ...

This video is real, but it was not captured at Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. The footage was recorded in August in on Indonesia’s Mount Dukono in North Halmahera. Al Jazeera attributed the ...

Tesla’s website does not feature a tablet computer, nor has the company announced a $100 tablet in a press release. A search for "Tesla tablet" took us to a page on Tesla’s website for the touch ...

The reader pick for the 2024 Lie of the Year is also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice: President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were ...

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin/Adams, on Dec. 16 shared on X an image of a purported drone being carried on a truck bed. "Breaking News," the image read, "Crashed drone in Orange ...

Senior officials with the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration have said they have no evidence that the drones spotted in New Jersey and ...

Officials say the reported drones pose no threat to public safety or national security. In many instances, authorities said, the drones have been mistakenly identified: They were manned aircraft, ...

But the videos are a scam. The federal government is not offering a 2024 holiday stimulus check.

Although Singh ruled out that the drones are not from the U.S. military or a foreign country, a transcript and video of Singh’s press briefing show she did not say they are alien aircraft or "not of ...