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By D’Angelo Gore, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, Eugene Kiely and Ian Fox Originally Published by FactCheck.org On a night when the focus was on safety and unity at the Republican convention, a number of GOP leaders also offered up some misleading and false claims FactCheck has seen before. Several people …

Amanda Becker, Orion Rummler, Darreonna Davis Originally published by The 19th Project 2025. You might be hearing about it. Late-night television host John Oliver highlighted it during a segment on Republican Donald Trump’s potential second term. The musician Lizzo explained in a TikTok video how it would increase the president’s …

Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted Tuesday of taking bribes to do favors for Egypt and Qatar and to meddle in two criminal cases to help three New Jersey businessmen in a case the chief prosecutor said revealed “shocking levels of corruption.” The jury’s verdict of …

Shauneen Miranda, North Dakota Monitor As the nation reels from the attempted assassination against former President Donald J. Trump and the Secret Service comes under intense scrutiny, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday said “we are in a heightened and very dynamic threat environment.” The former president and …

Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal A little more than three years ago, J.D. Vance was just an author and conservative commentator. Now he might be next in line for the White House. It’s a dizzying political ascent for the 39-year-old man from Middletown, Ohio. Presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Donald …

Ashley Murray, New Hampshire Bulletin The federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump was dismissed Monday by a Florida judge on the grounds that the Department of Justice unlawfully appointed special counsel Jack Smith. The order, while likely to be appealed, makes the possibility even more remote that …

Jimmy Williams The man who authorities said attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was a member of a local gun club and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing facility. Identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, …

Jennifer Shutt, North Dakota Monitor Thousands of Republicans will gather in Milwaukee beginning Monday for the party’s presidential nominating convention — a typically joyous occasion that will likely take on a different tone this year after a gunman shot at Donald Trump, injuring him, on Saturday. Trump, who will be …

Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden urged Americans to “lower the temperature” of political rhetoric during an Oval Office address on Sunday night, following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Biden emphasized the importance of respectful discourse and civility, highlighting that political disagreements should never lead to violence. “Disagreement …

Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday where former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Biden said …

Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star President Joe Biden denounced political violence during brief remarks Saturday night after a shooting abruptly ended a campaign rally that Donald Trump was holding in Pennsylvania and injured the former president. Biden declined to say if the incident, which is under investigation by the Secret Service, …

John Cole, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Former President Donald Trump is recovering after a shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that left a rally-goer and the gunman dead, authorities said. Two people were critically injured in the incident, according to the U.S. Secret Service. Shortly after Trump took the stage …

This special report was written with contributions from States Newsroom’s 39 state news outlets.  WASHINGTON — The Electoral College could help Democrats avoid a complicated situation in the event President Joe Biden withdraws from the race after his name is printed on ballots. States Newsroom reporters and editors in the …

Shauneen Miranda, North Dakota Monitor In the latest U.S. House Republican attempt to secure audio tapes from the U.S. Justice Department special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden, the U.S. House on Thursday rejected Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s resolution to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland for withholding them.  …

Jimmy Williams Former President Donald Trump is attempting to overturn his criminal conviction in New York by referencing a recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity. Trump’s legal team has asked a state court judge to dismiss the jury’s verdict, which found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business …