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Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that a 2020 law requiring parental consent for abortions would be eliminated if voters approve a 2024 abortion ballot initiative. But this isn’t a foregone conclusion and would likely be decided by the courts.
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Former President Donald Trump’s comments to a Time Magazine reporter allowed for the possibility of states monitoring and punishing women for getting illegal abortions, but he wasn’t as explicit about whether he thought they should.
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As news of a settlement over the Parental Rights in Education Act broke March 11, both sides appeared to proclaim victory. Here are four things PolitiFact Florida learned from reading the settlement.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that President Joe Biden refuses to detain illegal migrants ignores detentions and deportations under Biden's administration and migrant releases under previous presidents, experts said.
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During his 2024 State of the Union address, Biden took a victory lap on the reduced inflation rate, job creation and other economic metrics. We have found many of the claims he repeated to be accurate or close.
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PolitiFact decided to look at a few common economic talking points in the presidential race. We compared the nation’s economic performance not just under Biden and Trump but also under their three predecessors: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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President Joe Biden overstated the authority provided to him in the border security bill. Former President Donald Trump made broad and often unsubstantiated statements about the migrants entering the U.S. and his administration’s immigration successes.
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Mass shootings are most commonly perpetrated by young men. Experts say most extremist attacks in the past few decades have been motivated by right-wing ideologies.
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Available evidence suggests Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face each other for the presidency in November. So, what happens if one of the major party’s presidential tickets opens up before inauguration day?
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In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.
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Organizations that collect data on mass shootings each use their own definitions for them — some of which are broad such as incidents in which at least four people are injured or killed. Other databases use a narrower definition that includes at least four deaths.
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The Senate immigration bill would have hired thousands of asylum officers and expanded their powers, but asylum officers are already employed to decide asylum cases.