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Assessing small boat crossings and fact-checking Trump's Washington DC crime claim

While we wait for those figures, you can read our overnight fact-check on President Trump’s claim that crime in Washington DC is “out of control.” As ever - you can find more of our work on the BBC Verify section of the BBC News website.

NBC Los Angeles · 12h

Fact focus: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime

Statistics published by Washington's Metropolitan Police contradict the president and show violent crime has dropped in Washington since a post-pandemic peak in 2023

PBS · 16h

Fact-checking Trump’s claims about homicides in D.C.

WATCH: The legality of Trump’s D.C. takeover as statistics show decline in crime “The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth,

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Fact check: Violent crime in DC has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press ...

Fact Check: President Donald Trump Did NOT Announce Clearance Of Homeless People From All 50 States - Only D.C.

Did President Donald Trump announce the clearance of homeless people from all 50 states? No, that's not true: Trump declared ...

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Fact check: Trump’s claims jobless numbers were 'rigged'

Trump has falsely alleged that former BLS commissioner “faked” employment numbers before the 2024 election in order to better ...

Fact Check: Oxford photo shows Boris Johnson with his first wife, not Ghislaine Maxwell

The first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been incorrectly identified in a photo online as Ghislaine ...

Fact Check: Photo Of Melania Trump Kissing Jeffrey Epstein Is Fake -- Colbert Didn't Air It

Is a photo showing Melania Trump kissing Jeffrey Epstein an authentic image and was it "unseen" until aired by Stephen ...

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Wash Post columnist says Meta's new community notes fact-checking system 'nowhere near up to the task'

Meta's new community notes program struggles to combat misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, according to Washington Post ...

Fact Check: Red-brick house edited into Afghan family photo and falsely said to be a gift

An edited image purporting to show an Afghan journalist and his family outside a house in the UK has been shared online to ...

Fact Check Team: The money behind gender-affirming care for minors

A database by the group Stop the Harm Database claims that 225 hospitals across the U.S. provide "gender-affirming care" for minors. While most states require parental consent for minors to receive ...

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Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump’s false claims at Cabinet meeting

President Donald Trump again turned a Cabinet meeting into a wide-ranging conversation with reporters – and again uttered a ...

Dailymotion on MSN20h

Fact-checking Russian claims that Ukraine is stalling a planned prisoner swap

Fact-checking Russian claims that Ukraine is stalling a planned prisoner swap A war of narratives has erupted between Moscow and Kyiv over the implementation of a prisoner exchange agreed in late July ...

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TikTok follows X's lead and adds community fact-checking in the US

TikTok is launching its own version of community notes in the US as it looks to police bad or misleading videos.

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Mace to fact-checking reporter: ‘You’re a raging Democrat’

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused a reporter of being a “raging Democrat” following a town hall event for her gubernatorial ...

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