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Ocasio-Cortezâs office did not immediately return a request for comment, but her most recent financial disclosure report â filed Aug. 13 and covering 2023 â shows the representative is nowhere close to being worth $29 million.
Economists have told PolitiFact that although some Biden policies exacerbated inflation, the primary drivers were the supply chainâs inability to meet demand during the pandemic and Russiaâs 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which caused global energy prices to spike.
Trumpâs Madison Square Garden campaign rally drew thousands and filled the 19,500-seat venue, with people lining up for blocks hours before the eventâs scheduled start.
As part of its preventive services coverage requirement, the Affordable Care Act mandates that health plans cover vaccines recommended by the CDCâs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with no cost-sharing, as long as they are provided in-network.
The New York Times also cited a 2021 article in The Guardian about a book by Michael Bender, then a Wall Street Journal reporter, who wrote that during a 2018 visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump said to Kelly: "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things."
Searching The Atlanticâs site for the phrase "Trump is literally Hilter" returned only the publicationâs statement rebutting the fabricated image.
Citing the pushback Special Counsel Jack Smith has faced in attempting to quickly bring cases to trial against former President Donald Trump, Brand said he doubts a prosecution of Musk "would pay a high percentage return to engage."
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, executive director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at NYU School of Law, told Gothamist that making a claim that children will be treated differently in medical settings is part of a political strategy.
The Baldwin ad features an April 24, 2012 appearance by Hovde, then in his first run for U.S. Senate, at the Milwaukee Press Club, where he was asked if he favors "either raising the retirement age and/or cutting benefits for those who are considered wealthy."
The postsâ comments include links to a blog story titled, "Royal Tragedy: William and Kate Devastated," published on multiple websites, which says Middleton had a successful abdominal surgery and is expected to return home.
McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuardâs artificial intelligence and foreign influence editor, told PolitiFact, "DocNetYouTube played a key role in promoting the false Kazakhstan former exchange student narrative and distributing it to a larger audience."
They said the return rate is not surprising and is likely caused by multiple factors, including expanded access to absentee voting, greater awareness and enthusiasm among voters to cast ballots for or against candidates or measures.
AI-created content with captions claiming to show real events are a growing form of misinformation we see being shared online, and we have previously fact checked fake images of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a ventilator and another of police officers in the UK supposedly kneeling in front of men in Islamic dress.
At an Oct. 11 campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado, he said heâd invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite gang membersâ removal and to "target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil."
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as altered because the original image has been edited to include Kamala Harrisâs face.
Additionally, the video circulating on social media has been cropped, which has cut out visible wires and audio hardware around her chair, which Ms Harris also picks up and adjusts during the longer clip, in which she talks about a recipe for cooking a turkey.
Dr Ciaran Beggan at the British Geological Society also told us that HAARP uses âtinyâ amounts of power to transmit radio waves into the atmosphere, which would be a fraction of that needed to artificially create a hurricane.
A Sept. 11 New York Times article echoed that point, saying the impact of the Chinese campaign after the Maui fires "is difficult to measure, though early indications suggest that few social media users engaged with the most outlandish of the conspiracy theories."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted 17 to 25 storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher would hit the United States during the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30.
Some who made the claim got the inaccurate information from an Oct.1 Federalist story that misleadingly said: âThe Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.â
Colorado Rep. Greg Lopez released a statement that said he could not vote for a bill that "would extend the federal governmentâs current, exorbitant spending levels with no cuts or considerations for the elimination of expired programs."
CBS Newsâ Bill Whitaker pressed Harris on how she would pay for promises such as an expanded child tax credit and aid to small-business startups.
Trump has also floated several more targeted tax cuts, including ending taxation on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime work.
Harris did say that at the time, but the Hill reported that her campaign said she wanted to replace the TCJA with âlegislation she has proposed that would involve nearly $3 trillion in refundable tax cuts primarily affecting the middle class.â
Stern gave Harris an opening to criticize this yearâs Supreme Court decision that confers broad immunity from prosecution to U.S. presidents, which would most immediately aid Trump if he were to win reelection.
Community organizers and airport tenants looking to help survivors in hard-hit western North Carolina started a social media page called the Runway Relief Project to share information about efforts to collect and fly donations of supplies where theyâre needed.
In New Hampshireâs nip-and-tuck gubernatorial race, the state Democratic Party attacked Republican nominee Kelly Ayotte over corporate board positions she held after losing reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
The video shows a large fire producing lots of smoke and is captioned: âIâm old enough to remember when tel aviv had this micaculous [sic] thing called electricity.
However, some of the content weâve seen is miscaptioned and shows conflict elsewhere, is out of date footage of an unrelated event or is even from a video game.
So, people with humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status must use another avenue â such as asylum, marriage or employment â to gain legal permanent residence.
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as false because the video shows a protest in Lebanon in 2020, not citizens celebrating the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2024.
But a Transportation Department spokesperson said the Federal Aviation Administration is not banning drones from providing Hurricane Helene disaster relief and recovery assistance.
It has been shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) with captions including: âUpdate: Report that a Yemen Houthi suicide attack drone hit a target in Tel Aviv tonight!
But if the 13,099 noncitizens had all entered in the past three years, "migrants would have accounted for about one-third of all homicide convictions from 2021 through 2023, Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank wrote.
Rue told us he spoke earlier this year with Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio about the need for federal funding that would allow the city to âreinforceâ its infrastructure due to âa rapid increaseâ of its population.
In the final planned debate of their closely watched Senate race, Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy sparred over major campaign topics, including abortion, immigration and the economy.
According to the Office for National Statistics, 27% of over 65s in Great Britain live in a household that has a total wealth of ÂŁ1 million or more, but that doesnât mean 27% of individual pensioners are personally worth this amount.
Given the scrutiny and heightened news coverage Khelif received during the Summer Games, she certainly would have made headlines from credible sources had she had been stripped of her titles and banned for life.
In each conversation, the President received updates on response and recovery efforts, and he shared how the Biden-Administration will continue providing support to impacted communities â for as long as it takes."