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On July 17, the White House announced Trump has a chronic venous insufficiency, which can cause leg swelling. Experts say the condition is common in older patients and not typical ...

The data exaggerates the tax gains for households with modest incomes by focusing on the change in their tax liability, rather than their after-tax income — the measure analysts more commonly use. Now ...

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the ...

California tends to pay more in individual and corporate federal taxes than Texas does, because of its larger population and higher incomes. Newsom’s specific numbers come from 2022, the most recent ...

The "Epstein files," refer to the federal government’s investigative files pertaining to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The two federal investigations into Epstein took ...

On July 16, days after the first media investigations about sparse criminal backgrounds among the population were published, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., characterized the migrants at Alligator Alcatraz ...

"In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "ICE detention facilities and ...

As a candidate, Trump promised to lift taxes on overtime. The new law allows workers to deduct up to $12,500 in overtime compensation (for single filers) or $25,000 (for joint filers). This deduction ...

No hay informes de noticias que digan que el sheriff del condado Kerr, Larry Leitha, dijo que se debe solicitar la residencia permanente para un equipo mexicano que rescató a su familia durante las ...

President Donald Trump outraged many of his supporters after the Justice Department published an unsigned memo saying it would not release any more documents related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey ...

There is no evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off immigrants in the middle of the ocean. An immigration activist who has tracked ICE flights for over five years said the claim ...