Vote No on 3 attorney Michael Beato responded in a Sept. 7 letter, citing Blackâs Law Dictionaryâs definition of monopoly: a "privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity."
Hurricanes form on their own given the right conditions and that was the case with Helene," Monica Allen, director of public affairs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research division, told PolitiFact.
In the presentation â which noted that Walling was expressing his own views, not necessarily the ITCâs â he said, âI feel like we often have these news coverage pieces that come out that are like, Chinaâs going to be able to export duty-free from Mexico or that vehicles are going to be so inexpensive that you donât care about the tariff.
The prepandemic decline was "chump change compared with the drop that occurred in the COVID-19 recession," Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told us in July.
"As Florida prepares for a major hurricane to make landfall this week, donât forget that Donald Trumpâs Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and NOAA," Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal YouTube influencer, posted on Instagram.
A spokesperson for TGA told reporters at AFP that: âIron oxide black is typically used as a colouring pigment in printing inks on capsules and tablets.
"In a stunning move, Tim Walz makes the case for Trump: âWe can't afford four more years of this,â" the conservative podcaster and commentator Benny Johnson posted on X.
But a Sept. 17 Instagram post by the National Rifle Association falsely claims, âAll Kamala Harris knows about guns is that she wants to ban them.â In the video, Harris can be heard calling for universal background checks and closing the so-called gun-show loophole that allows unlicensed individuals to sell firearms without performing background checks.
Vote No on 4 spokesperson Taryn Fenske told PolitiFact that the line "no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict abortion" would hamstring Florida lawmakers from clarifying the measure.
Reuters reported that a source working in the Ukrainian state security service had told them a warehouse holding missiles, guided bombs and ammunition had been destroyed in a drone attack.
After two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year, reports of a third purported attack at his Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York, spread quickly online.
"The fact the ACA survived the Trump administration is a testament to the strength of the underlying statutory framework, and that the public rallied around it," said Sabrina Corlette, co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University.
Following this development, researchers wondered if clade I monkeypox virus similarly had the potential to show sustained spread via dense sexual networks, and they started to monitor for such cases, Kindrachuk, the University of Manitoba scientist, said.
Rasmussen Reports notes that, â[l]ike many other pollsters, we now also draw a sizable percentage of our daily sample survey results from special demographically balanced Internet Panels to capture the growing number of people who no longer have landline telephones.â
The Instagram accountâs profile page links to a product called Headlines, which, for a fee, says subscribers can "experience the future of news with AI-driven personalized content texted directly to you."
Springfield has become a focal point in the national debate over immigration because large numbers of Haitians who were granted legal status in the United States have settled in the city over the last several years.
In the Senate, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the Armed Services chair, has expressed support for expanding the requirement to register for the draft to women, rather than just men.
Itâs possible these claims are based on comments made by Sir Edward Troup, a former Treasury civil servant who was reportedly appointed as an advisor to now-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves before the general election earlier this year.
As lawmakers worked on the measure, some economists, including Larry Summers, who directed the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama, warned the bill would lead to inflation.
On the Israel-Hamas war, Harris reiterated that Israel has a right to defend itself, following Hamasâ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, but didnât have a straight answer for co-moderator and Politico White House Correspondent Eugene Danielsâ question about how her policies would differ from President Joe Bidenâs.
In several interviews in June 2020, Harris demurred when directly asked whether she supported âdefund the police.â But she also straddled the issue with her rhetoric on taking a fresh look at public safety.
Soon after U.S. Secret Service agents intervened to stop a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, social media users started spreading conspiracy theories about the incident, including that it was staged.
So it was perhaps appropriate that the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump - in an election closely watched around the world - was dominated by the endorsement of the biggest celebrity on the planet: Taylor Swift.
One post on X, formerly Twitter, has eight million views and claims Ms Harris was wearing âNova H1 Audio Earringsâ that act as wireless earphones.
Speakingto journalists on the possibility of an outdoor smoking ban, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton, said that the tax revenues generated by tobacco were âfour to five times the cost of the NHS annuallyâ.
And on Facebook, Peggy Hubbard â who ran unsuccessfully in 2022 to be the Republican Senate candidate from Illinois â posted a screenshot from the video and said, âHEY KAMALA!
The video included two clips of Trump, one from a 2023 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the other from the presidential debate.
But it has an element of truth, because heâs also articulated support for states making their own decisions on what parameters to set for abortion policy, and this could empower legislators to ignore his advice about including exceptions.
Dorsainvilâs fear started during ABCâs Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles west of Columbus, the stateâs capital.
A video circulating online appears to show a televised phone call in which former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump seemingly insults soldiers on Fox News.
It added that as the proposed UK connection test âwould have little to no discernible policy impact and that eligibility criteria for social housing is already tightly defined, the government does not agree that its introduction would be a justifiable use of taxpayer money.
(Walzâs conservative critics have used the moniker in a derogatory manner to refer to his advocacy for making free menstrual products available in schools.)
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called âThe Long History of âHidden Earpieceâ Conspiracy Theories.â The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCâs âMeet the Pressâ in 2000.
While Full Fact normally sticks to checking claims made by or about UK politicians, weâve written about a flurry of misinformation involving the two presidential candidates circulating on social media over the last few months.
A conservative political group tied to Republican strategist and former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove claims in a TV ad that U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., voted to hike taxes on families making less than $75,000 a year.
For Medicaid, Project 2025 proposes adding work requirements for beneficiaries and âtime limits or lifetime caps ⌠to disincentivize permanent dependence.â The health insurance program for low-income Americans covered nearly 74 million people in May, according to the latest data.
A Trump campaign spokesperson highlighted on X comments by Harris in a June 2020 radio interview with actor Nick Cannon, in which she said "we have to redirect resources" from police to other areas of government such as schools and small businesses.
Vance, in a follow-up X post Sept. 10, said his "office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield whoâve said their neighborsâ pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants."
â[T]he distribution of wealth among Americans has grown increasingly unequal, concentrating economic resources in a steadily shrinking percentage of individuals,â the Treasury Department wrote in its general explanation of Bidenâs proposed budget.
So we canât find specific evidence that further Pensioner Cost of Living Payments were planned, ahead of the general election, for the coming winter, that the incoming Labour government subsequently âscrappedâ.
The Aurora Police Department said Aug. 28 that it was collecting evidence to show Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang implicated in the apartment complex incident, is linked to crimes in the area, but drew no conclusions.
Jeraldine Mazo speaks during a rally staged by the East Colfax Community Collective to address chronic problems in the apartment buildings occupied by people displaced from their home countries in central and South America on Sept. 3, 2024, in Aurora, Col
A day after a 14-year-old student with an AR-style weapon killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance answered a reporterâs question about the shooting.
The claim that Haitian immigrants are eating wildlife and pets in Springfield was also widely shared by conservative influencers such as Charlie Kirk and X owner Elon Musk, and political entities and figures including the House Judiciary Committee and vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.
As attorney general: âCategorized rape of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving sex acts with minors, assault with a deadly weapon and more as ânonviolentâ crimes, allowing inmates who committed those offenses to receive earlier parole.â
In the letter calling for Cooper to send the National Guard to Texas, House Republicans pointed to a situation in New Hanover County Schools as an example of immigration affecting North Carolinaâs public education efforts.
Republican National Committee spokesperson Anna Kelly told PolitiFact in an email that the spending initiated under the Biden-Harris administration was something that "even liberal economists warned would cause" prices to rise, linking to a fewexamples.
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as false because Elon Musk did not make these âelectricity saving devicesâ, and we can find no evidence that any âaccusationsâ about them were ever made by the US Department of Justice.
Trump is likely to mention Harrisâ more liberal positions from her 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign, including her previous opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a practice used to access hard-to-reach oil and gas in rock formations.
News reports identified people who approached buses in San Diego as migrants, but no attempted hijacking or crimes occurred.
At the time the Conservative government was accused of setting the maximum price generators could receive too low, failing to reflect the increasing costs of manufacturing and installing turbines.
Trump touted supportive words from "strong man" Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is popular among Trump-aligned conservatives but whom others have criticized for authoritarian policies.
Come December, the Migration Observatory had pointed out that the 100,000 calculation even included a mathematical error, but this didnât stop Richard HoldenâGreg Handsâ successor as party chairâfrom repeating the claim in a comment piece for the Express published on Boxing Day.
This measure was first introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition for the financial year 2011/12 and, other than a temporary suspension after the Covid pandemic, has been in place ever since.
"You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts peopleâs perceptions about what they should and should not doâŚHe has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.
President Joe Biden rescinded the Trump era policy and issued a February 2021 executive order to establish a task force to reunite separated children and their families.
His Republican National Convention platform also calls to cut federal funding "for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content."
âBoth administrations have taken important steps in building the policy infrastructure needed for a significant U.S. manufacturing comeback,â Tonelson told us, though through different strategies: Trump via tariffs and deregulation and Biden via government incentives.
San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Allison Maxie said the agency found no calls for service or other reports involving a hit-and-run or car crash in the vicinity of the intersection of Post and Jones streets on or around this date in 2011.
"The transgender thing is incredible," Trump told Moms of Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during the groupâs Aug. 30 gathering in Washington, D.C. "Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently claimed in an ad that Michiganâs Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Elissa Slotkin, gave taxpayer money to immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally.
The statement contains an element of truth in that Robinson was on the campaign trail, and not physically present at the State Board of Education meeting, but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
The area is near the San Diego-Mexico border and migrants, including many asylum seekers, often are served by humanitarian groups while they await processing by immigration officials, a local newspaper reported.
At the Aug. 13 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Convention in Los Angeles, Walz talked about Harrisâ middle-class upbringing and how she "picked up shifts at that McDonaldâs as a student."
For instance, the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justicefound that through 2024âs first six months, "homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped to or slightly below levels seen before the onset of the COVID pandemic and nationwide protests that followed the killing of George Floyd."
It showed clips of Trump visiting tombstones and meeting families while the adâs narration and text criticized how Bidenâs administration handled the U.S.â exit from Afghanistan, when the suicide bombing happened.
"I thought I would share them with you because these are government entities that we fund as taxpayers, and I donât understand how it is not a conflict of interest for them to make a campaign donation," the woman said.
"SB 1174 was just passed in California, and it opens the door for illegal immigrants to vote by eliminating the requirement for voter ID at polling places," read a screenshot of an X post shared on Instagram.
"As it is now, normal workers are taxed on their entire income, but we have a situation where the very rich can have hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of capital gains which go altogether untaxed," said Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
In its follow-up article, the MailOnline spoke to a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders, Rosa Hoekstra, Professor of Global Autism and Developmental Disability Research at Kingâs College London, who explained that the small sample size meant the findings were not generaliseable to others.
After Ms Reeves announced the ÂŁ22 billion shortfall, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that many of the challenges Labour outlined were âentirely predictableâ, but also that the in-year financial pressures identified did âgenuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from the outsideâ.
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For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as false because the figures used do not match the amount of the state pension or Universal Credit, and âillegal immigrantsâ have no recourse to public funds (though some may receive other forms of financial support).
In 2013 it emerged that Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, who was serving as work and pensions secretary at the time, had an expenses claim which included a breakfast costing ÂŁ39 rejected, though the specific reasons do not appear to have been made public.
