Trudeau’s team has regularly dismissed Trump’s comments — which regularly include referring to the prime minister as “Governor Trudeau” — as good-natured joking. The joke apparently wore off on Trudeau after Trump expanded on why Canada ought to become a state during his Mar-a-Lago press conference, a typically free-flowing event in which Trump said he would use “economic force” on Canada. In an afternoon post on X, Trudeau wrote: “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would...

In the final days of its tenure, the Biden administration has banned credit reporting agencies from including medical debts in their reports, aiming to make it easier for people to access credit, including loans and mortgages. “No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick or experienced a medical emergency,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a White House statement announcing the new rule Tuesday. The administration first proposed the rule in June...

Senate Republicans, waiting for their House counterparts to figure out their strategy on border security and tax reform, are planning to use the Congressional Review Act to wage a lightning war on regulations implemented by the Biden administration over the past six months. Senate GOP leaders say their first priority will be to confirm President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees but then they will move quickly to passing Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions to overturn an array...

The founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced substantial changes to the way that his company’s two most popular products, the social media networks Facebook and Instagram, will be moderated going forward. In a video published Tuesday morning, Zuckerberg committed to “simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.” Among the planned changes are to get “rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X”; to move all content-...

Meta is ending its partnership with U.S. fact-checking organizations, such as ours, but we’d like to reassure our readers: FactCheck.org isn’t going anywhere. Our journalists will continue to provide nonpartisan coverage of false and misleading political claims, helping you to sort fact from fiction, just as we have done for more than 20 years. We publish in-depth reports on policy issues, whether that’s fact-checking a specific claim or providing information about an issue. Our SciCheck...

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