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President Donald Trump will deliver tonight’s keynote address at 9 p.m. EDT. According to the RNC, Wednesday’s speakers will focus on themes like taxes, immigration and crime. PolitiFact will be watching and fact-checking tonight’s speeches starting at 4 p.m. EDT. Follow along with our live fact-checking below and across our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok and X.

President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence about aiding in the recovery. “I was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers. And I went down there very shortly thereafter, the following day — couldn’t go down the same day — but the following day,” Trump said in the interview with Fox News’s Trey Gowdy that aired Sept. 6.

For a lot of Americans, the first time they heard the letters “mRNA” was during the early, panic-filled months of the COVID-19 pandemic, as scientists raced to develop a vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccines became the first mRNA — or messenger RNA — vaccines ever approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The researchers whose scientific discoveries fueled the vaccines’ successful development were awarded a 2023 Nobel Prize. Yet skeptics worried.

It’s been one year since Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder, was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. Misinformation swelled almost immediately after the 31-year-old’s assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, evolving from chaotic breaking news rumors into complex, unfounded narratives — many pushed by people who share Kirk’s political beliefs.

You’ve probably heard that using artificial intelligence consumes a lot of water. But how does it measure up with snacking on almonds? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the comparison in a recent interview. OpenAI is the company that makes ChatGPT, the popular AI chat app. “For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of a single almond in California,” he said in a Sept. 1 episode of the Sources Podcast.

Casi nueve meses después de que Estados Unidos depusiera al líder venezolano Nicolás Maduro, el presidente Donald Trump cerró un acuerdo para otorgar a EE.UU. un papel clave en la industria petrolera de Venezuela — una nación con enormes reservas de crudo pero con una infraestructura en decadencia.

Skip to content Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info I would like to contribute A boy sits on an inactive oil pumpjack in Cabimas, Venezuela, on Aug. 31, 2026.

The low-calorie sweetener xylitol, found in chewing gum, jams, and cough drops, is making headlines as a potential heart risk. Sounds alarming, but don’t clear out your pantry just yet. The findings come from research that hasn’t been peer-reviewed or published, and the xylitol levels the study detected could be from what human bodies naturally produce, not food. Here’s what we know — and what we don’t — about this common sugar substitute. What is xylitol?

Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly said the vast majority of Floridians are opposed to artificial intelligence data centers being built in the state. Jolly, who vows to enact a one-year moratorium on Florida data center construction if elected, said during an Aug.

President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with Canada could create economic fallout for northern border states, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ Democratic rival Troy Jackson said she shares in the blame. Collins, a Republican, wrote an Aug. 28 letter to Trump administration officials that said tariffs on Canada will hurt Maine employers and add extra costs for small businesses and municipalities that rely on goods from their northern neighbor, such as road salt or cement.