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Trump Offers No Evidence for Claim About Bill Clinton and Epstein Island
Former President Bill Clinton flew multiple times on airplanes belonging to the late Jeffrey Epstein. But there is no evidence that Clinton visited the convicted sex offender’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands "28 times," as President Donald Trump has claimed.
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Are Prices Up or Down? Parsing Misleading Claims by Trump and Democrats
About six months into the second term of President Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats are making conflicting and often misleading assessments of the Trump administration's impact on inflation and prices. Both sides cherry-pick examples of consumer products to support their claims, while sometimes wrongly taking credit for lower prices or falsely casting blame for rising costs.
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Trump’s Misleading Justification for Higher Tariffs on Imports of EU Goods
The United States and the European Union have reached a preliminary trade deal to avoid a 30% U.S. tariff on imported goods from the EU that President Donald Trump threatened would go into effect on Aug. 1. Trump had argued that higher tariffs were needed because EU tariffs and nontariff policies “cause the large and unsustainable trade deficits” between the U.S. and the EU, but economists disputed that statement.
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FDA Commissioner Spreads Unsubstantiated Concerns About Seed Oils in Baby Formula
In recent months, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has amplified unfounded concerns about the safety of seed oils, a subset of vegetable oils used in infant formula. There isn’t evidence these fat sources are harmful to infants.
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RFK Jr., HHS Wrong About WHO Power Under Updated Global Health Regulations
In justifying the United States' rejection of updates to global health regulations, the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed that the policy would give the World Health Organization the ability to "order global lockdowns" or "travel restrictions" in response to a pandemic. Experts told us that is "entirely untrue" and "clearly" incorrect.
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