James Van Der Beek, the soft-eyed actor whose boyish good looks and earnestness landed him the leading role in ’90s teen drama “Dawson’s Creek” and catapulted him to stardom, has died. He was 48. The actor died Wednesday, according to a statement posted to his verified Instagram. “He met his final days with courage, faith, and […]

Top Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives have taken a Thursday quote from the White House press secretary out of context to deliver a misleading attack on President Donald Trump. A reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a Thursday briefing: “In addition to the ballroom and the Rose Garden patio, is the president looking at […]

The president keeps claiming a major American city is burning down. Even though that is not even close to true. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday: “I looked at Portland over the weekend. The place is burning down, just burning down.” Trump noted that an appeals court on Monday overturned one of the […]

President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled with wildly inaccurate and often conspiratorial claims about elections and other subjects. Here’s a debunking of two of them. No, Walmart isn’t shutting down 250 California stores Trump twice shared a video titled “California Governor […]

President Donald Trump and Republicans have launched an unprecedented effort to redraw state congressional maps to help protect the party’s narrow majority in the House ahead of the midterm elections in November. Democrats have responded with redistricting efforts of their own, setting off a series of fights across the country — including in the courts — which […]

Newly released inflation figures show that President Donald Trump was wrong when he repeatedly claimed this month that grocery prices are “down” or “way down.” They were up, again, last month. And they have increased since the start of his presidency. Average grocery prices rose 0.3% from August to September, according to Consumer Price Index figures released Friday. That […]

This year’s midterms will not only shape the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency; they’ll determine what politics after Trump might start to look like. A series of races that starts with primaries on March 3 will either preserve Republican majorities in Congress, helping Trump to push through his agenda, or give Democrats control […]

President Donald Trump has promoted dozens of different lies about American elections. Some of them are relatively sophisticated. Some are transparently silly. House Speaker Mike Johnson is now promoting one of the very most laughable. In an interview that aired Monday, Trump said Republicans should “take over the voting” in at least “15 places” because of supposed […]

When President Donald Trump claimed to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas in a Wednesday interview that “I’m getting – starting to get great polls on the economy,” Llamas quickly pushed back by noting that Trump’s polling on the economy is “not great.” Trump immediately backed off his assertion, retreating to a claim that his economy-related polling “should  be […]