President Donald Trump said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than "the worst places on Earth." At an Aug. 11 press conference announcing a federal government takeover ...

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department. The nation’s capital is "becoming a situation of ...

During a July 2024 Florida campaign rally, Trump promised to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that ...

The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it. On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress’ annotated website of the U.S. Constitution was missing sections ...

The center estimated that the U.S. is home to 21.6 million noncitizens, about half of whom are here illegally. It said that noncitizens — regardless of immigration status — created a net gain of 14 ...

Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year," Michael Clemens, George Mason University economics ...

A Yellowstone National Park spokesperson told PolitiFact that wildlife is not leaving Yellowstone National Park in large numbers, as TikTok users claimed.  PolitiFact found that the footage of animals ...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature left for Illinois, New York and Massachusetts to deny Republicans a quorum to redistrict congressional maps. Republicans are seeking to redraw boundaries to ...

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El Parque Nacional de Yellowstone, ubicado principalmente en Wyoming, alberga cientos de especies de aves, peces y mamíferos como bisontes, alces, osos pardos y pumas. Pero estos animales no huyeron, ...