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Assessing small boat crossings and fact-checking Trump's Washington DC crime claim

Returning to Donald Trump’s press conference about crime in Washington DC, the US President also claimed "the number of carjackings has more than tripled" over the last five years. But despite the president’s assertion, carjackings - like many other police recorded crimes in DC - have fallen in the past year.

Al Jazeera · 4h

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that crime in Washington is ‘out of control’

Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.

NBC Los Angeles · 23h

Fact focus: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime

Statistics published by Washington's Metropolitan Police contradict the president and show violent crime has dropped in Washington since a post-pandemic peak in 2023

1don MSN

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 ...

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Nicolás Maduro Saying 'Come For Me ... Cowards' In Response To Trump DOJ's $50 Million Bounty

Does a video show Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, reacting to the $50M bounty announced August 7, 2025 by the US ...

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Fact check: No, there isn't an upcoming tour featuring Springsteen and Bon Jovi together

The post shared by the page Rock Soul Anthems has nearly 9,000 reactions, over 600 comments and more than 800 shares.

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 ...

AllAfrica on MSN1h

Fact-Check - the Truth Behind Viral Claim of '60-Year-Old Woman Giving Birth' in Mogadishu

Over the past few days, Somali social media has been flooded with a heartwarming -- yet controversial -- claim: that a woman in her 60s gave birth to a baby in Mogadishu. The story, accompanied by ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The ‘fact-checker’ era cannot end soon enough. Here’s why

With Glenn Kessler's departure from the "Washington Post," the era of the fact-checker journalist might mercifully come to an end.

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Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump’s false claims at Cabinet meeting

President Donald Trump again turned a Cabinet meeting into a wide-ranging conversation with reporters – and again uttered a ...

Mathrubhumi English6h

Fact Check: Did Pakistan capture Indian soldiers and force them to chant slogans?

Mathrubhumi’s fact-check finds viral video claiming Pakistan captured Indian soldiers is false. Official confirmations state ...

6hon MSN

Fact checking Fox News claims about crime rates and migration in Ireland

Right-wing US news channel Fox News sparked a controversial debate after it aired a TV segment alleging that Dublin is one of the most dangerous cities in Europe, while also implying that crime and ...

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