As he sought to recapture the White House in 2024, Donald Trump promised to "put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10%." During his presidency, bipartisan lawmakers have introduced ...

As Bowman sparred with Republican Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, he drew a link between recent acts of racial and political violence and rhetorical attacks against ...

Trump's pledge was directed at an estimated 48 million caregivers in the U.S. AARP, an organization representing older Americans, estimates that family caregivers provide about $600 billion in unpaid ...

Roy Cooper is considering a run for U.S. Senate, and a social media post announcing that the Democrat would speak about "the future of North Carolina" at a Winston-Salem event generated buzz. But ...

Trump said, China doesn’t "have a lot of wind farms. … Very, very few." China has a lot of wind farms, ranking No. 1 globally and almost tripling what the U.S. has. China is also planning or building ...

Various actors make celebrity-centered posts like these, which are common after a disaster, said Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan professor of information. These go viral because fans of ...

As Florida moved quickly to build an immigration detention facility in the Everglades, some critics likened the site to a concentration camp. Some TikTok videos attempted to lend credence to the ...

Then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance also added to the chorus on Theo Von’s podcast, in October 2024: "We need to release the Epstein list," he said. Trump shared multiple times during the 2024 ...

As torrential rains slammed central Texas and the death toll from the resulting floods grew into the dozens over the weekend, rumors started to spread online about a sliver of good news.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis said 4.8 million people who would lose health insurance by 2034 under the Trump-backed bill would be able-bodied adults between 19 and 64 who have no dependents ...

"The reason the Texans had no idea that a giant flash-flood that killed 20 plus people was going to be coming to them was because the Trump regime has defunded not only the National Weather Service ...

The posts claiming there is no natural explanation for the deadly floods ignore a long history of deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country region. It is sometimes called "Flash Flood Alley" because ...