Trump has proposed severe cuts to medical research at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies, including caps on indirect costs for grantees’ labs, terminated grant funding and staff ...
The unemployment rate has ticked upward during Trump’s tenure, from 4% in January, when he was inaugurated, to 4.3% in August. Nonfarm job creation has slowed, with employment rising by about 0.3% ...
In February 2017, it advised another social media user — who had praised Tylenol "for being pregnancy safe" — to seek a clinician’s advice: "Thanks for the shout out Carrie!" Tylenol wrote. "Just make ...
Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions, wrote Max Stier, chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on improving the federal government.
His post misleads about the recent rule adjustment’s dangers — 2024 season data showed it made the game safer.
Trump touted the promise of leucovorin in treating autism. The drug is a form of vitamin B9, also known as folate, traditionally used to combat the toxic effects of certain cancer drugs. He also ...
President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025, in a broad speech touching on foreign policy, immigration, climate change and more. PolitiFact fact-checked the ...
President Donald Trump signed an order to facilitate a deal creating a new entity to operate TikTok within the U.S. The Sept. 25 order says under a "framework agreement" presented to Trump, "TikTok's ...
Using combination vaccines does not overload children’s bodies with "liquid" as Trump was concerned about though. For infants, the standard is, at most, half a milliliter to a milliliter — or about ...
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The first, a 2001 report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was about a Romanian investigation into Israeli adoption agencies and an international conspiracy to sell children’s organs for transplants ...
Trump has repeated a version of this claim for months. In his U.N. speech, Trump listed the conflicts: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan ...