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Democratic North Carolina Senate candidate Terence Everitt made this claim in a television ad. Mark Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, has called for more abortion restrictions. Neither ...
A makeshift cardboard sign leans up against campaign posters near a relief center on Oct. 3, 2024, in Vilas, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. (AP) The North Carolina General ...
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Oct. 10 at a town hall on Univision in Las Vegas. A teleprompter with words on it was seen in a short video clip shared online, but the Univisio ...
In 2023, Brown signed a letter urging the Biden administration to broadly protect access to gender-affirming care. Gender affirming care is any kind of health care that prioritizes support for a ...
A New York City program gives prepaid debit cards to migrant families sheltering in city hotels to spend on food and baby supplies for four weeks. The amount of money varies by family size, but is ...
A FEMA-hosted March 2023 panel discussion titled, "Helping LGBTQIA+ Survivors Before Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation Considerations," involved FEMA employees and non-FEMA experts and focused on ...
In 1994, Arizona's violent crime rate was 703 per 100,000 residents, according to official FBI data provided by Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, a crime statistics research group. In 2023, the ...
“Hurricane Nadine was a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane that struck Central America and the Bahamas in October 2024.” Hurricane Nadine didn’t exist as of Oct. 10, though the next storm could have ...
Tim Walz didn’t flip the bird to football fans at a recent college game, much less get banned from the stadium. But some social media posts have claimed otherwise ...
WWSB, an ABC News affiliate in Sarasota, Florida, published the image on its website Sept. 23, when Hurricane Helene was still a potential tropical cyclone and had not yet been upgraded to a tropical ...
A distressed-looking child, hair wet and wearing a life jacket, holds a sodden puppy aboard a boat in what appears to be a flooded street. This image that has tugged on some social media users’ ...