PolitiFact editors pick the official winner. This year, PolitiFact is spotlighting three stories that exemplify the consequences of falsehoods in 2025, which we’re calling our Year of the Lies.

Two cities, on opposite sides of the world, are united in mourning after deadly mass shootings over the weekend. In both cases, the attacks have left communities shattered while renewing contentious ...

A JetBlue plane narrowly avoided a collision with a U.S. Air Force aircraft on Friday, Dec. 12. According to reports, the ...

His pressure campaign has included a buildup of forces and strikes on alleged drug boats. Regime change, oil, and countering ...

Trump is plainly spoiling for a real war with Venezuela, and threatens to attack supposed smugglers on that nation’s ...

A New York-bound JetBlue flight had to halt its ascent Friday to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker ...

Instead, the administration has reconciled these seemingly unrelated objectives by saying it is waging war on narcoterrorists ...

The heart of the report is a pledge to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence.” In the ...

Senators in both parties are bracing for another government shutdown next year after Republicans blocked a proposal to extend ...

Learn from the Iraq War disaster and stop Trump from dragging the US into another unjustified conflict in Venezuela.

Alexander Shchetinin, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Latin American Department, noted that Venezuela "is currently under overt political pressure and military blackmail" ...

Colombia capitulated within hours, and the crisis was resolved. But the confrontation set the tone for relations going forward. In the months since, the two countries have careened from crisis to ...