ICE agents arrested New York City comptroller Brad Lander as he demanded to see a judicial warrant for the arrest of an immigrant he was accompanying. ICE agents don’t need judicial warrants to arrest immigrants in public. Here are the facts.

In an interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran, President Donald Trump doubled and tripled down on whether deportee Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has MS13, representing the MS-13 gang, tattooed on his knuckles. Trump cited an altered image as evidence. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

The White House called a 90-day tariff pause "fake news" on Monday after unverified X posts contributed to a stock market rally. On Wednesday, Trump announced a 90-day pause on country-by-country tariffs while enforcing 10% across-the-board tariffs. The U.S. is also raising tariffs on China to 125%.

Before President Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on his April 2 tariffs plan, he described them as a way to combat U.S. trade partners’ “cheating.” But his tariff rate formula was based on trade deficits, not documented “cheating.”

April 2 is both International Fact-Checking Day and Trump’s promised “liberation day” for reciprocal tariffs. PolitiFact’s editor-in-chief explains why our journalists scrutinize policy arguments for truth and facts.

“Now he’s going to help the Russians?” asked Alla Kriuchkova, 40, waiting outside a military recruitment center in Bucha for her husband, who had just been called in. “They destroyed everything here, and now we’re supposed to give up? How does that work?”
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Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists, including PolitiFact, to identify false information and hoaxes on its platforms. www.politifact.com/article/2025...