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Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.

By Sarah Ellison · The Washington Post (c) 2025 When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the 2008 presidential campaign, the board praised the nascent outlet for using “probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web” to examine more than 750 political claims, “separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.” The […]

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Appeals court allows release of Smith’s report on Trump’s election-reversal efforts

by Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein (c) 2025 , The Washington Post A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department may publicly release special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election, although the timing of that release remains unclear. The ruling did not distinguish between […]

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Appeals court allows release of Smith’s report on Trump’s election-reversal efforts

by Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein (c) 2025 , The Washington Post A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department may publicly release special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election, although the timing of that release remains unclear. The ruling did not distinguish between […]

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Justice Dept. says it won’t yet release Trump classified document report

By Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Justice Department said it would not publicly release special counsel Jack Smith’s findingsonDonald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents until the ongoing litigation against his co-defendants concludes, according to a filing in a federal appeals court Tuesday morning. But prosecutorssaid Attorney General Merrick Garland does intend […]