Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement
President Donald Trump has blamed improper forest management for Canadian wildfires whose smoke drifted into the Midwestern and Northeastern U.S. earlier this month. But climate change — and not a lack of “Debris Removal,” as Trump suggested — is the main factor leading to worsening Canadian wildfires and smoke pollution, experts from both sides of the border told us.
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One Big Beautiful Bill Not (Yet) Driving ACA, Medicaid Declines
Multiple Democratic lawmakers have claimed that 8 million Americans have lost healthcare coverage as a result of the Trump-backed budget reconciliation bill that passed a year ago, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But experts told us the enrollment declines seen to date are largely due to other factors — including other Trump administration policies.
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Trump’s Numbers, July 2026 Update
Our quarterly series presents just the statistics on various measures since Trump reentered the White House.
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Democrats Overstate Role of Monitoring Program Change in Parasitic Outbreak
As a large outbreak of cyclospora has ravaged the Midwest, Democrats have frequently pinned blame on the Trump administration for terminating a monitoring program for the parasite. But the change to the program, called FoodNet, is unlikely to have played much of a direct role in the current outbreak, several food safety experts told us.
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Trump’s Distorted Venezuela Elections Claim
In claiming that American voting machines are vulnerable to manipulation, President Donald Trump provided an incomplete and distorted summary of the CIA's reporting about Venezuelan efforts to manipulate electronic voting machines in that country.
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