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Byline: Alexandra Petri I am so glad they learned their lesson after the last debate and will not be offering live, on-air fact-checking for the vice-presidential debate. First, because there [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler In the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) proved he could match his running mate on the falsehood meter, though with a bit more verve [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler If you're a swing-state voter, your mailbox has probably been flooded with fliers, especially on behalf of Donald Trump's campaign. We've been collecting examples of Trump fliers [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Vice President Kamala Harris's acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily checked. [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler The third night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured more mostly thematic speeches, including by former president Bill Clinton, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler The second night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured former president Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, among [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said that the contents of Donald Trump's letters to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were not known. Parts [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler The race to define Vice President Harris is on. The likely Democratic nominee for president dropped a new biographical ad at about the same moment Donald Trump's [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Former president Donald Trump's 92-minute speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of his party's national convention rambled, often incoherently, through a hit parade [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler GOP vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance was the headliner on the third night of the GOP convention, which featured a number of misleading or inaccurate statements. Here are [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler On the second day of their 2024 convention, Republicans put a spotlight on immigration and crime, often relying on dubious or misleading statistics. Here are 12 claims [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler The first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention featured many misleading GOP talking points that we have previously debunked. Here's a guide to 13 claims that [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler CORRECTION: This fact check has been updated with new figures on Southwest border encounters provided by the White House. The data show that border encounters are now [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler As President Biden seeks to shore up support for his decision to seek a second term, he's embarked on a round of interviews and communications to make [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler In the contentious first presidential debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump, Trump confidently relied on false assertions that have been debunked repeatedly. Biden, in [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler A State of the Union address generally is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted. But State of the Union addresses are political speeches, an [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler CNN aired the fifth GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Des Moines on Wednesday night, featuring just two candidates -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler NewsNation aired the fourth GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday night, featuring four candidates. Not every candidate uttered facts that are [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell The new season of 'The Crown' painstakingly recreates the final hours of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her paramour, Dodi al-Fayed. The third episode, titled 'Dis-moi oui' [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell In the first episode of the sixth and final season of 'The Crown,' Diana, Princess of Wales, newly divorced and stripped of her 'HRH' title, takes refuge [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler NBC News aired the third GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Miami on Wednesday night, featuring five candidates. Not every candidate uttered facts that are [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Fox News aired the second GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Ronald Reagan's presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Wednesday night, featuring seven candidates. [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler President Biden announced that he was running for president with a gauzy video that left little to fact-check. There was a brief reference to 'MAGA Republicans' wanting [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Former president Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan on Tuesday on criminal charges related to his role in hush money payments to an adult-film star and a [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler A State of the Union address generally is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted. But State of the Union addresses often are very political [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow; Vanessa Montalbano CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Strategic Petroleum Reserve contained 372,380 barrels of oil at the end of 2022. The correct [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz; Will Oremus; Jeremy B. Merrill Birdwatch, a crowdsourced fact-checking program that Twitter launched nationally on Oct. 6, has erupted with activity in the past two weeks as [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler OSLO -- Members of fact-checking organizations from around the globe met last week for their first in-person conference in three years, confronting a world awash in baseless [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell In the opening minutes of the new season of Netflix's 'The Crown,' we learn about a poll of the British public suggesting half of them think Queen [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell Note: This article contains spoilers about 'The Crown.' In the new season of 'The Crown,' the sixth episode opens with a different set of British royals than [...]

Byline: Will Oremus; Aaron Schaffer Good morning! I'm Will Oremus, filling in for your regular host Cristiano Lima today. You can reach me at will.oremus@washpost.com Below: A former Twitter executive [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler One day after FBI agents executed a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, he posted a campaign-style video that has the earmarks of a [...]

Byline: Elyse Samuels This fact check has been updated. 'I've heard very quick numbers -- a matter of months -- and I've heard pretty much a year would be an [...]

Byline: Natalie B. Compton HBO Max's new miniseries 'The Flight Attendant' has all the trappings of a good pandemic TV binge: good-looking cast; anxiety-spiking plot line; travel scenes that pull [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald After Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, then-President Barack Obama released a statement summing up the extraordinary life of Britain's first female prime minister. 'She stands as [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler On Thanksgiving eve, President Trump called into a news conference held by his allies in a Gettysburg, Pa., hotel, yet again falsely claiming that Joe Biden stole [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'What we are really dealing with here and uncovering more by the day is the massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba and likely China and [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The fifth episode in the new season of 'The Crown' has a simple one-word title: 'Fagan.' Outside of England, the word Fagan calls to mind not [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald On the new season of 'The Crown,' newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II seem to get on well enough during their first [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the third episode of the new season of 'The Crown,' Lady Diana Spencer moves into Buckingham Palace a few weeks before her wedding to Prince [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler What if President Trump just tried to tell the truth? It's a question I have long pondered as editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker, where [...]

Byline: WashPostPR The Washington Post's Fact Checker today announced it will join Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network's first-ever coalition of major U.S. fact-checkers which will publish daily 2020 election-focused fact checks [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan Daniel Dale met President Trump's convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night -- a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan Daniel Dale met President Trump's convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night -- a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Ctrl + N Facebook is increasing its efforts to thwart misinformation on Instagram, which it owns. The company announced yesterday that Instagram's fact-checking program is going global, [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo In the final days of the campaign, President Trump continues to flood the zone with false and misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic. Cases have been spiking [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler;Salvador Rizzo;Meg Kelly President Trump yet again broke the fact-check meter at the second presidential debate, while Democratic nominee Joe Biden made relatively few gaffes. Here's a roundup [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'Imagine a ballot being sent to a person regardless of eligibility, signed by someone else, picked up and delivered by a campaign operative, and still counted. Democrats [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo;Glenn Kessler;Meg Kelly The town halls Thursday night -- President Trump on NBC and Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, on ABC -- were a study in contrasts. Trump [...]