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What to make of an abysmal year for truth? PolitiFact names 2025 the Year of the Lies By Katie Sanders • December 15, 2025 A history of PolitiFact's Lie of the Year, from 2009 to 2025 By Maria Briceño • December 15, 2025 Don’t fall for video of priest turning away ICE agents from his church, it isn’t legit By Maria Briceño • December 8, 2025 Fact-checking claims about Border Patrol’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina By Will Doran • November 24, 2025 Can the US government strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship? By Samantha Putterman • November 7, 2025 Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Fact-checking his statements on nuclear weapons, Mamdani, ICE By Grace Abels • November 3, 2025 HHS' Oz says $1 billion of Medicaid funds went to immigrants in US illegally. States disagree By Phil Galewitz • November 3, 2025 Who gets food stamps? Viral chart misleads about SNAP recipients' race, ethnicity By Loreben Tuquero • October 27, 2025 Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2025 ¿Qué dijo Trump en su discurso ante la ONU? Aquí lo verificamos By PolitiFact Staff • September 23, 2025 What to know about B-1 visas that some detainees from the Hyundai plant used to enter the US By Maria Briceño • September 10, 2025 Why did a court rule that Trump can’t deport Tren de Aragua members using the Alien Enemies Act? By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 3, 2025 Fact-checking the Trump administration’s claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 25, 2025 What are H-1B visas and how does the Trump administration propose changing them? By Amy Sherman • August 13, 2025 How much power does Donald Trump have to change the census and who is counted in it? By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2025 New US visa bonds program: What is a visa bond? Who is affected? By Gabrielle Lazor • August 5, 2025 Ron DeSantis dijo que todos en Alligator Alcatraz tienen orden de deportación, abogados dicen que no By Samantha Putterman • July 31, 2025 Immigrant children detained in ‘unsafe and unsanitary’ sites as Trump team seeks to end protections By Sandy West • July 31, 2025 DeSantis said ‘everybody’ at Alligator Alcatraz has a deportation order. Lawyers say he’s wrong. By Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2025 ¿Quiénes están en Alligator Alcatraz? No todos son criminales, contrario a lo que dijo Donald Trump By Madison Czopek • July 25, 2025
