Owen McCarthy is a senior at Michigan State University studying journalism and Spanish. He worked for over two years at the ...

Student reporters at Michigan State explain how public records helped them uncover misconduct, investigations and hidden decisions.

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At a Feb. 18 White House event, Trump lauded Black celebrities and closed his remarks with, “Happy Black History Month! Happy ...

Maya Lora is The Baltimore Banner’s early childhood education reporter who covers how Maryland can best support young ...

Zoe Weyand is a reporter with PolitiFact. She is a current journalism student at Ohio University. Previously, she has written ...

Sports is a window to the broader world and sometimes to ourselves and our own communities, which Indy explored through Winter Olympics coverage.

Canadian Daniel Dale became a star fact-checking Trump. Back home, the work remains ad hoc. That says a lot about Canadian politics and media.

In the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union, Gov. Abigail Spanberger cited a claim PolitiFact found largely backed by several studies.

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump ’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on ...