April 15, 2021 | Chris Nichols
Republican lawmakers have claimed a large percentage of migrants at crowded southern border facilities are testing positive for COVID-19. PolitiFact California examined that and other claims in this week’s Can You Handle The Truth segment.
April 1, 2021 | Chris Nichols
Padilla recently claimed that in a majority of states, Americans can obtain a rifle quicker and easier than they can cast a ballot. PolitiFact California fact-checked that claim in this week's Can You Handle the Truth? segment.
March 4, 2021 | Chris Nichols
Opponents of H.R. 1 have stepped up false and questionable claims about the voting rights legislation in recent days.
March 4, 2021 | Chris Nichols
The claim by GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa is incomplete and takes things out of context.
February 25, 2021 | Chris Nichols
The Sacramento City Council recently voted to allow a greater variety of housing, from duplexes to fourplexes, in neighborhoods zoned almost exclusively for single family homes.
February 11, 2021 | Chris Nichols
GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour “would destroy up to 3.7 million jobs.” That estimate relies on the high-end of an old report.
January 28, 2021 | Chris Nichols
Despite the false claims on social media, PolitiFact found there is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron last week.
January 13, 2021 | Chris Nichols
For more than a century, the state constitution has allowed California voters to use the recall process to try to remove local and state officials, for any reason, midway through their terms in office.
January 6, 2021 | Chris Nichols
A video flagged by Facebook users claimed there are “absolutely no patients” at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles despite recent media reports that it was inundated with patients following the coronavirus surge.
December 16, 2020
Some GOP lawmakers in California claim “government imposed lockdowns” do not reduce cases or stop spikes of COVID-19.
