With a busy 2024 heading toward a close, PolitiFact readers sent us thoughtful questions and plenty of election-year feedback through email and social media comments. Readers weighed in on the ...

New Jersey drones are searching for missing radioactive material. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reported a piece of equipment used in medical imaging scanners that contained a ...

"The city of… is being warned to be alert & vigilant as there is a serial killer on the run,” Robert Thibodeau. Several local authorities nationwide have debunked this serial killer claim and have ...

Congress hasn’t increased its pay since 2009, so the idea that it would propose nearly $70,000 raises in stopgap legislation caught our attention. We found that the Department of Government Efficiency ...

"Josh Shapiro called the McDonald’s employee who reported Luigi Mangione a ‘hero.’ She will NOT get the $10,000 reward money because she called 911 instead of the tip line," a Dec. 16 Threads post ...

But the videos are a scam. The federal government is not offering a 2024 holiday stimulus check.

Senior officials with the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration have said they have no evidence that the drones spotted in New Jersey and ...

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin/Adams, on Dec. 16 shared on X an image of a purported drone being carried on a truck bed. "Breaking News," the image read, "Crashed drone in Orange ...

Officials say the reported drones pose no threat to public safety or national security. In many instances, authorities said, the drones have been mistakenly identified: They were manned aircraft, ...

The reader pick for the 2024 Lie of the Year is also PolitiFact’s official editors’ choice: President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were ...

Tesla’s website does not feature a tablet computer, nor has the company announced a $100 tablet in a press release. A search for "Tesla tablet" took us to a page on Tesla’s website for the touch ...

A shutdown’s effects vary by agency. The Defense Department’s plan, for example, says active military members will remain on duty, but civilian employees will be furloughed. Some civilian employees, ...