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Fact checking Trump's Washington DC crime claim and assessing small boat crossings

While we wait for those figures, you can read our overnight fact-check on President Trump’s claim that crime in Washington DC is “out of control.” As ever - you can find more of our work on the BBC Verify section of the BBC News website.

CNN International on MSN · 12h

Fact check: Violent crime in DC has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press conference Monday that the violent crime situation in Washington, DC, “is getting worse,

WRAL · 9h

Fact-checking Trump's claims about Washington crime while ordering National Guard deployment

The nation's capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 11 press conference. "Washington, D.C., should be one of the safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world,

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Fact-checking Russian claims that Ukraine is stalling a planned prisoner swap

Fact-checking Russian claims that Ukraine is stalling a planned prisoner swap A war of narratives has erupted between Moscow ...

Fact Check: Survey found 47% of Republicans would still vote for Trump even if implicated in Epstein's crimes

The survey explored the attitudes of a representative sample of around a thousand American voters on several topics.

Fact Check: Oxford photo shows Boris Johnson with his first wife, not Ghislaine Maxwell

The first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been incorrectly identified in a photo online as Ghislaine ...

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Fact check: Video of Indian Army chief admitting to losing 6 jets, 250 soldiers during May conflict with Pakistan is a deepfake

Pakistani users on social media platforms X and TikTok have been sharing videos since Monday that allegedly showed the Indian ...

Fact Check: Linda Sarsour Is NOT Proven To Be Woman Posing With Swastika -- Also, She's NOT Mamdani Campaign 'Senior Advisor'

Has the woman photographed wearing a pink hijab posing next to a swastika been identified as Linda Sarsour, senior advisor of ...

Fact Check: Red-brick house edited into Afghan family photo and falsely said to be a gift

An edited image purporting to show an Afghan journalist and his family outside a house in the UK has been shared online to ...

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Wash Post columnist says Meta's new community notes fact-checking system 'nowhere near up to the task'

Meta's new community notes program struggles to combat misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, according to Washington Post ...

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Fact Check: PIB Busts Fake Video of Indian Army Chief Admitting to Losing Six Fighter Jets

The Army Chief made no such statement, and no credible sources corroborate these claims. Deepfakes pose a growing threat of ...

Fact Check: Is India Post ending Registered Post from September 1? Here's the truth behind the viral claim

A viral claim circulating on social media has sparked confusion, suggesting that India Post is shutting down its Registered ...

Fact check: Trump says jobs data revision after 2024 election was 'rigged'

PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...

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