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In the more than eight months since the novel coronavirus emerged and then spread around the world, scientists across the globe have made rapid progress on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sept. 3, at least 176 vaccines are in the works, with nearly three dozen already in clinical trials, according to the World Health Organization. But until a vaccine is...

In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden made a case for the country to move forward together after years of bitter partisan divides. Because our country’s polarization has left Americans on both sides of the aisle questioning the truthfulness of our elected leaders, we asked PolitiFact’s Jon Greenberg to help fact check Biden’s speech.

President Donald Trump is distorting how he responded to the chaos at the Capitol this week, falsely stating that he acted immediately to bring in the National Guard.

After Wednesday’s deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol, false rumors have spread among right wing commentators online that Antifa activists were to blame rather than supporters of President Trump. PolitiFact’s Daniel Funke joined NBCLX to fact-check this claim he rated as “pants on fire,” and other misleading news following the riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Congress will count and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College votes in a joint session on Wednesday. NBCLX welcomed PolitiFact Managing Editor Katie Sanders to fact-check some of President Trump’s false claims about the process that have turned the typically routine event into a political circus.

President Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat.

With many Americans feeling hesitant about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker is setting the record straight about some of the many myths circulating about the shots, including the false claim it could interfere with your own DNA.

President Donald Trump is repeating false claims of widespread vote rigging that even his own attorney general has disputed

President Donald Trump is rebelling against Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election with denial, delay and outright misrepresentation.

President Donald Trump is rebelling against Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election with a litany of falsehoods

President Donald Trump is wrongly taking full credit for Pfizer’s announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine was robustly successful

After months of campaigning, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made their final pitches to voters at campaign rallies in key swing states and on TV airwaves.

President Donald Trump is alleging fraud not only in the election, but in the pandemic

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are engaging in their final debate, and an AP Fact Check is looking at their statements.

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke about the coronavirus pandemic during Thursday’s presidential debate. Trump spoke about recovering from the virus and defended his handling of the pandemic. Biden spoke about how he would handle the crisis if elected in November.

We reviewed all of President Donald Trump’s speeches at campaign rallies over five days, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 16. There were six speeches and combined, Trump spoke for more than eight hours, averaging about one hour and 20 minutes per speech. Below is a compilation of 46 of the false and misleading claims he made; Trump often repeated those…

After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed Biden’s speeches on the stump between Oct. 12 and 16. He held six events over three days in swing states: two in Ohio, two in Florida and two more in Michigan....

PolitiFact Managing Editor Katie Sanders breaks down the remarks made at last night’s town hall events, including President Trump’s claim that 85% of people who wear masks catch the coronavirus, which Sanders says is entirely false.

Senators are debating “Obamacare” in Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination hearings

Impatient to return to the campaign trail, President Donald Trump made a series of claims over the weekend about his health and the course of the pandemic