What Do We Know About 'Birth Tourism'? - FactCheck.org Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on tourism visas in order to obtain birthright U...

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Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine - FactCheck.org Elon Musk this week amplified an unfounded claim, based on a distortion of vaccine safety monitoring data, that COVID-19 vaccines killed tens of thousands of people in Germany. The vaccines saved mill...

Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine

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Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania When it comes to reliable health information, Americans are more confident in federal health agencies' career scientists than their leaders.

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An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey finds that the public has more confidence in career scientists at US health agencies than the agencies' leadership. Just 38% are confident RFK Jr. is providing the public with trustworthy information.

The U.S. Treasury Didn’t Declare the Country ‘Insolvent’

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Trump Fumbles the Facts with Farmers

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Trump Fumbles the Facts with Farmers - FactCheck.org In a speech to what he called "the single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has ... ever had," President Donald Trump distorted the facts on the estate tax, soybean exports an...

In a speech to what he called “the single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has … ever had,” President Donald Trump distorted the facts on the estate tax, soybean exports and more.

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Trump Links Biden’s Ukraine Aid to Pentagon’s Iran War Funding Request

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Who is Wong Kim Ark and why was his 1898 case repeatedly cited in arguments today before the Supreme Court over the issue of birthright citizenship? We'll explain.

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This is not an April Fools’ Day joke! We are a nominee for the 30th Annual Webby Awards in the category for Websites and Mobile Sites: News & Politics.

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Trump Links Biden's Ukraine Aid to Pentagon's Iran War Funding Request - FactCheck.org With the Pentagon potentially seeking a $200 billion supplemental package to fund the ongoing war with Iran, President Donald Trump defended that figure in part by saying U.S. ammunition "was taken do...

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Flaws in Government Tool to ID Noncitizen Voters - FactCheck.org Republican Sen. Mike Lee said that he believes there are "at least tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands" of noncitizens illegally registered to vote in the U.S., adding that a federal too...

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Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, with over half of Americans saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later developing cancer, according to @appc.upenn.edu:

FactChecking Trump’s Repeated False Claim About Mail-In Voting

We first wrote about this claim back in August 2025. On March 23, Trump made the claim again.

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Just over half of U.S. adults continue to know that regular consumption of alcohol is linked to an increased risk of cancer.

Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania Awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, even though the alcohol-cancer connection has been omitted from the latest U.S. dietary g...

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, even though the new U.S. dietary guidelines this year omitted the previous warning about cancer. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/awareness-of...

Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania Awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, even though the alcohol-cancer connection has been omitted from the latest U.S. dietary g...

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, despite its omission from the new US dietary guidelines, found a survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Centre. @appc.upenn.edu www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/awareness-of...

Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania Awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, even though the alcohol-cancer connection has been omitted from the latest U.S. dietary g...

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EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’

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EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’ - FactCheck.org Trump administration officials have claimed that they are saving Americans over $1.3 trillion by ending regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. But the figure does not incorporate...

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Our recent survey showed that Americans have more trust that career scientists at US health agencies than the leaders of those agencies. Only 5% of US adults were very confident in the leaders, vs. 18% in career scientists. Read more: www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

A person's primary care doctor or nurse is the most trusted on public health guidance, our survey finds, followed by experts such as @americanheart.bsky.social, @ama-assn.org & @ameracadpeds.bsky.social. HHS Sec'y RFK Jr. was trusted by just 38%. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

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No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions

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Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion | Penn Today Matthew Levendusky has been named a joint professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Political scientist Matthew Levendusky discusses civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion.

A new poll shows who Americans trust over the CDC The new findings come after the Trump administration in January took the unprecedented step of overhauling the CDC’s routine childhood immunization schedule.

Americans express greater confidence in federal career scientists and independent medical groups than in the political leaders running U.S. health agencies. @washingtonpost.com reports on the new survey from @appc.upenn.edu conducted by SSRS.
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New in @pnas.org: How to build trust in scientific authorship? From a team of scholars, scientists, and journal editors, including APPC's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Sofia Adams.