PolitiFact editors pick the official winner. This year, PolitiFact is spotlighting three stories that exemplify the consequences of falsehoods in 2025, which we’re calling our Year of the Lies.

For 17 years, PolitiFact has made an annual tradition of sorting through the year’s rhetoric to identify the statement, collection of statements or theme that had the most significant impact. The ...

Some 66% of Americans believe the government should provide health care coverage for all its citizens, a new Pew Research ...

House Republicans are set to vote this week on their version of a health care bill as the expiration of the enhanced ...

Missouri’s Republican lawmakers seem perfectly comfortable at ignoring that reality if it is convenient or aids in pushing a ...

Denver progressives see an opportunity to defeat Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., in the Democratic primary in Colorado’s first ...

In joining a national redistricting arms race sparked by President Donald Trump, Virginia Democrats say they may impose a ...

In 2013, Senate Republicans sprung a surprise mid-decade effort to redraw district boundaries in their favor. Democrats ...

In the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, candidate Mike Minogue is trying to shed light on what he says is the ...

President Trump is capping a 2025 that remade the presidency with a bevy of executive actions that skirted Congress and ...

House Democrats say they’re lining up to support a bipartisan extension of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies — if they get a green ...

Shortsleeve and Minogue are veterans—Shortsleeve as a U.S. Marine officer who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the breakup of Yugoslavia, as well as in the Persian Gulf. Minogue is a West Point ...