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Amy Sherman

Amy Sherman

Staff Writer and Fact Checker at PolitiFact

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  • English
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  • Foreign Affairs
  • Health & Medicine
  • Immigration
  • Politics
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Recent Articles

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The facts about DOJ sending election monitors to CA, NJ

The Justice Department will send election monitors to five California counties and one New Jersey county for the Nov. 4 election in response to state Republicans’ requests. Monitors can observe but can’t interfere with voting.
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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israel on same day as hostag...

In Israel and Egypt, President Donald Trump celebrated the agreement between Hamas and Israel with familiar talking points and misleading attacks on his predecessors.
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Nihilistic violent extremism: What the FBI term means and why exper...

Under Trump, the FBI has used the term nihilistic violent extremism to describe criminals who seek to sow indiscriminate chaos. Some extremists defy narrow ideological labels.
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How a government shutdown would give Trump more power

An impasse over health care could lead to a government shutdown Oct. 1. What actions could Trump take in a government shutdown?
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'Rough road ahead': Charlie Kirk’s assassination highlights the ris...

Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the latest in a series of violent political incidents that have targeted both Republicans and Democrats, attacks driven by social media and increasingly polarized political rhetoric.
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Crime stats fact-check: murder in Chicago, crime in Illinois

President Donald Trump has painted Chicago as a crime hotbed ahead of potentially sending in ICE or the National Guard. Gov. JB Pritzker called out red states. Politicians selectively cite crime stats to score political points.
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Did Democrats seek Jeffrey Epstein records before 2025?

House Speaker Mike Johnson said if lawmakers wanted Epstein records released, they could have called for that during Joe Biden’s presidency. What did Democrats say before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case?
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Is ICE now the largest federal law enforcement agency?

Jon Favreau and others on the left have said ICE will now become the largest federal law enforcement agency. That tracks if we make some assumptions about spending in the new law and the likely annual budget.
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States can use database to check voter citizenship

President Donald Trump’s administration overhauled a database for election officials to verify the citizenship of voters.
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SCOTUS declined to review case against Poynter, Meta

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 declined to review a case filed against Meta and the Poynter Institute, PolitiFact’s parent organization, by Children’s Health Defense, a legal advocacy group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Was Iran ‘weeks away’ from having a nuclear weapon?

President Donald Trump said Iran was “weeks away” from having a nuclear bomb. Iran was close to having bomb-grade uranium, but experts predicted it could have taken anywhere from months to two years for Iran to have a launch-ready bomb.