OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said. Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. There was the time he called school […]Read More

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump pressed Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Friday to make a decision: Should the former president’s trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents take place before or after the November election? And if the high-profile, high-stakes trial of the GOP front-runner for president is to take […]Read More

It’s been understood for some time that there is no limit on the fearmongering Donald Trump will deploy when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border. His 2015 speech announcing his presidential candidacy came out of the gates with claims about criminals and rapists crossing into the United States; it only got more demagogic from there. […]Read More

This article, first published in 2021, has been updated. When the New York Post released emails last fall from what it claimed was Hunter Biden’s laptop, The Fact Checker produced an explainer that turned out to be one of the most-read articles in our 13-year history. A key question we examined was whether Hunter Biden, […]Read More

More than 100 people convicted of participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol may have to be resentenced after a federal appeals court Friday overturned a sentencing enhancement used to help determine their punishments. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit came in the case of retired […]Read More