Here’s a fact check of 14 of the false claims, plus a check on another important claim for which there is no evidence.... A law New York approved in 2019 makes abortion illegal after 24 weeks with the exception of cases where the fetus is not viable or the abortion is “ necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” The law does not legalize post-birth murder.... Since its passage, however, it has been the subject of online misinformation falsely claiming it does....

Washington CNN — The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland.... And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics.... Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country....

Washington CNN — A conservative commentator with a substantial Twitter following went viral late last week by making false claims about the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 – and Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified some of the misinformation, pushing it to millions of people.... The conservative commentator, Chuck Callesto, inaccurately tweeted that various publicly available videos of January 6 had been “ censored.” Musk amplified one of these claims.... This was no Antifa vide

“ But at the end of the day, this is good public policy.” Mississippi and Indiana plan to have a paper trail by the 2024 presidential election.... Bill Lee has proposed$ 15 million for a switch to voter-verifiable, paper-backed equipment.... Nearly two-thirds of the state’s 95 counties currently do not produce a paper record. Republican lawmakers say Tennessee's elections are just fine....

PETALING JAYA: Claims circulating online about individuals aged 70 and above having to surrender their driving licence to the Road Transport Department( JPJ) are false, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.“ Actually, Section 30 of the Road Transport Act allows drivers to voluntarily surrender their licence due to unsatisfactory health conditions which may endanger other road users, ” said the Transport Minister in a Facebook post yesterday.He said denying senior citizens their driving licence was th

KOTA KINABALU( Bernama): Two senior officers of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission( MCMC) in Sabah were charged at the Special Corruption Court here on Friday( June 25) on charges of submitting false claims. Syahruddin Muhd Saleh, 40, the deputy director of the agency was charged with three counts of submitting false receipts at MCMC Sandakan branch office through a document amounting to RM3, 990 on July 24, 2014.He was charged with submitting false claim receipts worth RM2,

Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump did not hold an official coronavirus briefing on Thursday.... And he dubiously suggested that he had quickly solved coronavirus testing problems, though many public health experts say he was slow to react and that the country is still far from a sufficient number of tests.... The testing problem Read More Trump claimed again that South Korean President Moon Jae-in had called him to compliment the administration's work on coronavirus testing and then said

ALOR SETAR( Bernama): A contractor has been fined RM1. 5mil by the Sessions Court here after pleading guilty to three counts of submitting false claims amounting to RM216, 536 in 2014 and 2015. Sessions Judge Harmi Thamri Mohamad imposed the fine on Nazrul Idham Abu Nasir, 44, on Monday( Aug 16) for submitting the claims to the Centre for University-Industry Collaboration( CUIC) at Universiti Utara Malaysia( UUM).On the first count, Nazrul Idham was charged with using false documents, namely the

WASHINGTON--The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell again last week with numbers still at historically low levels. Jobless claims in the U.S. declined by 5, 000 to 180, 000 for the week ending April 23, the Labor Department reported Thursday.... First-time applications generally reflect the number of layoffs. The four-week average for claims, which evens out the weekly ups and downs, rose slightly to 179, 750 from 177, 500 the previous week. The total number of Americans

SEREMBAN: A headmaster has been detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission( MACC) for allegedly making a RM2, 500 false claim.A source said the 57-year-old was detained after being called in for questioning on Monday( Sept 27) afternoon.He allegedly committed the offence in late 2019, submitting the claim for several programmes which were never held. When contacted, state MACC director Awangkok Ahmad Taufik Putra confirmed the arrest and said the case was being probed under Section 18