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Courts ruled against 18 of Cohen’s 26 charges and settled two

Verdicts: 3 True, 9 Mostly True, 7 Mixed, 1 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 7 Contested, 1 False

Rep. Steve Cohen filed 26 impeachment articles. Courts have ruled against 18 at some stage, the Supreme Court has settled two, and eight have no court ruling at all.

No-claims was one of four tests Oz cited, and those enrollees paid no premium

Verdicts: 1 Mixed, 1 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested, 1 False

The administration cut 760,000 ACA enrollees and is reviewing about 419,000 more. Never filing a claim was one test among four, and all four applied to fully subsidized plans.

Trump says he has ‘made peace’ while threatening Iran and inviting Putin

Verdicts: 2 True, 2 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested

In one week Trump claimed to have made peace, threatened to annihilate Iran, invited an ICC-indicted Putin to the G20 and kept sanctioning the court. What holds up, and what does not.

Fact-Check: Trump’s August 2026 Canada Trade Claims — ‘Ripping Off,’ the $200B Subsidy, ‘Don’t Need Canada,’ and a False Auto History

Verdicts: 1 Mostly True, 1 Mixed, 3 Misleading, 3 Contested, 1 False

Trump’s ‘ripping off,’ ‘$200B subsidy,’ and ‘don’t need Canada’ claims rated alongside Greer’s false Auto Pact history and Canadian counterclaims.

Operation Puppet Master: What the DHS Surveillance Records Show

Verdicts: 2 True, 1 Mixed, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested

DHS court records confirm Minneapolis surveillance of unions and protesters — but the AFL-CIO subpoena claim is wrong, and the entrapment theory remains unresolved.

COVID Accountability, Strand by Strand: Fact-Checking the Pre-Pandemic Preparedness Record

Verdicts: 2 True, 1 Mostly True, 1 Mixed, 1 Unproven, 1 Contested

PREDICT’s end was scheduled. The NSC directorate was dissolved. The April 23 remarks are on video. The causal chain is unproven. PPE to China preceded domestic need. Trump’s private and public COVID…

Did Biden’s Pardon Strip Fauci of His Fifth Amendment Rights?

Verdicts: 1 Contested

Brown v. Walker supports the claim’s logic, but perjury exposure, three state AG subpoenas, and autopen questions leave Fauci’s Fifth Amendment invocation legally unresolved.

Fact-Check: Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt — Five Disputed Figures, One Unresolved Procedure

Verdicts: 1 True, 2 Mostly True, 1 Contested

The committee vote was 8-5, the Senate floor was bypassed, and five circulating figures need correction. The pardon-vs.-Fifth Amendment legal fight is headed to the courts.

Fact-Check: Trump’s Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman’s “Regime Change”

Verdicts: 2 True, 1 Mostly True, 1 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested, 2 False

Trump calls the co-authored Regime Change book ‘largely fiction’ — but his own White House confirmed its accuracy. His electoral stats are mostly correct; his tape denial is unproven; his Iran…

Was Trump’s Iran Deal a “Catastrophic Capitulation” for Israel?

Verdicts: 2 True, 1 Mostly True, 1 Contested, 1 False

The NYT’s reporting on Israel’s shock is accurate, but its ‘none of Israel’s war aims’ verdict omits Israel’s real tactical wins, and the Lebanon-withdrawal claim remains contested.

Billions for Iran, None for Health Care? A Fact-Check

Verdicts: 1 True, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested, 1 False

A viral framing pairs one true claim with three shaky ones: the money to Iran is its own frozen assets, the US did not pay Venezuela $20 billion, and Trump did call Medicaid unaffordable amid war.

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