Crime has declined in Venezuela in recent years, but experts say that isn’t evidence Maduro sent freed prisoners to the U.S. It's because of a confluence of factors, including a humanitarian crisis ...

"Leaked" audio of President Donald Trump talking about the Epstein files and Venezuela was generated with OpenAI’s video-generating platform, Sora. The audio was originally shared on TikTok back in ...

President Donald Trump amplified the unsubstantiated claim that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ordered a state lawmaker’s assassination. In June, a gunman attacked Minnesota lawmakers, shooting and killing ...

This viral video shared by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones predates Nicolás Maduro's arrest by the U.S. military. It is from 2024 and shows people protesting election fraud. It was one of several ...

Tensions between Trump and Maduro escalated in September after the U.S. government began attacking vessels off the coast of Venezuela, killing more than 100 people, in what Trump described as an ...

After the Trump administration captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, images and videos that claimed to show the aftermath went viral on social media. "Venezuelans are ...

Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores pled not guilty to drug trafficking charges Jan. 5 in New York federal court. "I’m innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the ...

One thing President Donald Trump has consistently promised after the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is private U.S. investment in the country’s underproductive oil fields.

Claims about deportations, the Department of Government Efficiency, and someone fainting in the White House were among the mistruths that kept PolitiFact busy in 2025 — and they featured in some of ...

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Donald Trump falsely says new Carter Page documents show Steele dossier launched Russia probe President Donald Trump claimed newly released documents underlying the FBI’s surveillance of a former ...

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