President Joe Biden on Wednesday inflated the impact of his policies on U.S. jobs created in his first half-year in office, misleadingly stating his administration had done more than any other president.... He neglects to mention he had population growth on his side in his comparison.A look at some of his claims during a CNN town hall in Cincinnati: BIDEN: “ We’ve created more jobs in the first six months of our administration than any time in American history.... No president, no administrati

WASHINGTON--President Joe Biden vastly overpromised Thursday when he told Americans they can expect savings of$ 500 a month by transitioning to renewable energy.... It's possible they might save that much over a year, not per month. Biden addressed the subject while announcing plans to order the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months. Biden is grappling with fallout from surging energy prices, including gasoline that has reached

But with its forces withdrawn, the U.S.is left with diplomatic persuasion instead of military muscle to get the Taliban extremists who've been fighting the U.S. for 20 years to give remaining Americans safe passage out.... For those remaining Americans, there is no deadline.... We remain committed to get them out, if they want to come out....

“ Cyber Ninjas don’t understand the business of elections," the county said.... While the review suggests something improper, election officials note that voters such as college students, those who own vacation homes and military members, can move to temporary locations while still legally voting at the address where they are registered.... The file Logan consulted, known as EV33, shows two returned ballot entries whenever a voter's mail-in ballot has a signature discrepancy that gets fixed. W

WASHINGTON--President Joe Biden ignored his own administration's failures when he tried to explain why desperate civilians in Afghanistan's capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban because of the swift U.S. departure. While asserting “ the buck stops with me, ” Biden on Monday blamed Afghans in large measure for the chaotic evacuation at Kabul's airport and conceded no missteps.A look at his remarks: BIDEN: “ I know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating A

In mid-May, partisan investigators hired by Arizona state lawmakers backed off their allegation that the state's most populous county had destroyed its 2020 election database.... It’s been erased.” THE FACTS: Wholly false.... At first, auditors hired by Republican state senators sympathetic to Trump reported that a database directory was deleted from an election management server....

In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side.... The conflict simply explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine THE FACTS: She opined no such thing.... She asked questions about it. Jackson was vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission when it held a hearing on sentencing guidelines in 2012....

Casting himself as tough on Russia, former President Donald Trump lowballed the amount of U.S. military aid provided to Ukraine during the Obama-Biden administration and claimed that only he himself in recent history didn’t face a Russian invasion of another country.... The matter was part of Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial.... He also moved in on Ukraine in 2014 on Obama’s watch....

I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.” THE FACTS: That's a stretch.... Vaccine supplies have been a success; COVID-19 tests have been a widely acknowledged failure that the administration is trying to fix by making the tests free and sending them to homes.... Biden conceded Wednesday that more tests should have been available sooner. Biden himself set higher expectations than have been met when he held a July 4 event headlined a celebration of “ Independence Day and I

Casting himself as tough on Russia, former President Donald Trump lowballed the amount of U.S. military aid provided to Ukraine during the Obama-Biden administration and claimed that only he himself in recent history didn’t face a Russian invasion of another country.... The matter was part of Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial.... He also moved in on Ukraine in 2014 on Obama’s watch....