Linda Qiu
The New York Times
Washington, DC, United States
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Republicans Wrongly Tie Biden Immigration Policies to Baby Formula Shortage
A lawsuit settlement requires the federal government to provide water and food, including formula, to detained migrant children. → Read More
Ryan Zinke Broke Ethics Rules as Interior Secretary, Inquiry Finds
Mr. Zinke, who left the department in 2019 amid multiple inquiries, misused his office and lied to investigators about his involvement in a Montana land deal, a government watchdog found. → Read More
Biden’s Inaccurate Claims in Defending Afghanistan Withdrawal
The president made misleading or false claims about the reaction of allies to the withdrawal, the presence of Al Qaeda and conditions for Americans traveling to the Kabul airport. → Read More
Fact-Checking Claims on the Migrant Surge at the U.S.-Mexico Border
As migrants arrive at the southwestern border in increasing numbers, lawmakers and officials are misleading about border policies, migrants, the coronavirus and immigration flows. → Read More
Trump’s Lawyers Repeated Inaccurate Claims in Impeachment Trial
The three members of the former president’s legal team made a number of misleading or false claims about the events of Jan. 6, antifa, the impeachment process and voter fraud. → Read More
Fact-Checking Biden’s First Week in Office
All but three of 20 claims the president made were accurate, demonstrating his regard for basic facts and his proclivity to err when speaking off the cuff. → Read More
Trump Repeats Debunked Election Claims in Call With Georgia Official
The president recited a number of viral online falsehoods involving dead voters, Dominion voting machines, shredded ballots and a water leak, among other baseless claims of fraud. → Read More
Trump Repeats Debunked Election Claims in Call With Georgia Official
The president recited a number of viral online falsehoods involving dead voters, Dominion voting machines, shredded ballots and a water leak, among other baseless claims of fraud. → Read More
No, it isn’t unusual that Kamala Harris is still in the Senate.
In the past half century, it has been common for vice president-elects to resign from their previous posts in late December or January. → Read More
No, Trump Did Not Hold the Bible Upside Down at Lafayette Square
During a town hall on CNN on Thursday night, Joseph R. Biden Jr. revived a debunked viral falsehood about President Trump’s much-criticized photo-op in Washington’s Lafayette Square in June. “A president stands out there when people are peacefully protesting in front of the White House,” Mr. Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said. “He gets the military to go in for tear gas, move… → Read More
Trump’s False and Misleading Statements About Protests and Violence
The president has wrongly claimed credit for sending in the National Guard. He has also made misleading assertions in attacking his Democratic rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr. → Read More
Trump Ads Attack Biden Through Deceptive Editing and Hyperbole
We reviewed all of the Trump campaign’s television ads since June. Two-thirds contained clearly misleading claims or videos. → Read More
Trump’s Falsehoods on Police Shootings, Biden, Coronavirus and China
Speaking in the Rose Garden and in an earlier television interview, the president made incorrect, misleading and exaggerated statements on a wide variety of topics. → Read More
Fact-Checking Biden on the Coronavirus and His Own Record
The presumptive Democratic nominee has assailed President Trump’s pandemic response and sought to shore up his left flank. → Read More
Trump’s False Attacks on Voting by Mail Stir Broad Concern
The president’s assertions about widespread fraud have little or no basis in fact but are resonating with his supporters and give him the option of raising doubts about the legitimacy of the outcome. → Read More
Trump Made Inaccurate Claims About the Military During His West Point Speech
The president made misleading claims about his military budgets, the fight against the Islamic State and wars in the Middle East. → Read More
Trump’s False Claim That ‘Nobody Has Ever Done’ More for the Black Community Than He Has
The records of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson, among others, beg to differ. → Read More
White House Orders Staff to Wear Masks as Trump Misrepresents Testing Record
At a news conference, the president reiterated that he would not wear a mask himself and again exaggerated the availability of testing for the coronavirus. → Read More
Tracking Trump’s Promises on Responding to the Virus
The president has promised enhanced testing and monitoring capabilities, thousands of ventilators and millions of masks. Here’s a status report. → Read More
Trump’s False Claims About His Response to the Coronavirus
The president inaccurately described travel restrictions he had announced, falsely blamed his predecessor for testing shortages and misstated the role Google was playing in mitigating the outbreak. → Read More