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Fact Check / PolitiFact
What Pam Bondi’s statement about fentanyl overdoses misses
President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office fell on the same day as National Fentanyl Awareness Day. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi marked the milestone by crediting Trump with saving a third of the U.S. population from fatal fentanyl overdoses. Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid that causes the majority of opioid overdoses in the…
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Q&A: Florida’s move to ban fluoride
As a Florida bill banning fluoride in tap water awaits Gov. Ron DeSantis’ approval, oral health advocates warn the move signifies a major public health setback. If DeSantis signs SB 700 into law, Florida will join Utah as the second state to eliminate the cavity-preventing mineral from public drinking water. Several other states are considering…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
No, Michelle Obama didn’t call herself ‘a Black man’
Conservative influencers circulated an out-of-context Michelle Obama remark to push the long-debunked conspiracy theory that the former first lady was born a man. “DEVELOPING: Michelle Obama, ‘You’re raising a trans kid. That warms my heart, as a Black man,’” Dom Lucre posted on X April 30. That account has shared altered images and previously promoted…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Consumers, businesses pessimistic about economy under Trump
In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has often been his own biggest hype man when it comes to the economy. “In the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country,” Trump (falsely) said April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.…