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6464 claims analyzed Last updated 2026-04-24

Credibility summary

Well-Supported 506 (7.8%) Disputed 23 (0.4%) Misleading 68 (1.1%) Unverified 5867 (90.8%)

Of the 597 claims in Politics with evidence either way, 85% held up.

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

More than 25000 people have left the agency under Trump

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

In 1996 Mark Vijay Chahal shot and killed his ex wife and eight of his in laws in Vernon British Columbia before killing himself

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Attack in Tumbler Ridge was fourth deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

In 1989 Marc Lépine shot 14 women dead in misogynistic attack on engineering class at university in Montreal Quebec

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Gary Shapley was replaced within a few days this spring

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Long wrote to staff to enjoy a 70-minute early exit tomorrow

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

After 2020 massacre federal government unveiled sweeping plan to overhaul gun laws

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Government also instituted gun buyback program that has proved controversial and logistically difficult to implement

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Long told tax practitioners the agency’s filing season would start later than usual next year

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Bessent and Long had clashed at times

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Long appeared to get out ahead of the I.R.S. and Treasury Department

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Admiral McPherson noted that administration has pushed aggressively broad understandings of Mr. Trump’s unilateral power

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Three-star uniformed lawyers are supposed to give independent nonpolitical advice about international laws of war domestic legal constraints on armed forces

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

Interpreting what would be legally permissible in terms of using military force against cartels may be an early test for both of new appointees

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations not simply drug dealing organizations

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

There are also domestic legal constraints

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

The Defense Department declined to comment on the new directive

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

It is unclear what White House Pentagon and State Department lawyers have said about the new directive or whether the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has produced an authoritative opinion assessing the legal issues

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

The agriculture ministry hopes the industry can recover by marketing Malaysian durian as a premium product

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225 d ago · nytimes.com Politics

The government has also intervened buying some of the excess fruit to help keep farmers afloat

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