The Federal Trade Commission and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) are taking action against various companies doing business as Home Matters USA, Academy Ho...

Commentary There is an open question among pundits and researchers: Do more Americans believe in conspiracy theories now than ever before? But as a scholar of conspiracy theories and their beli...

WASHINGTON — Over the past five years, pipeline giant Energy Transfer has filed dozens of lawsuits and subpoenas against people and groups that participated in and supported protests against its ...

A video published on TikTok features an image of a purported newspaper front page with a headline claiming Kenya’s electoral commission officials were found guilty by Interpol of receiving bribes...

The Washington Post Fact Checker is 15 years old today, though strictly speaking that statement might merit a Pinocchio. With a burst of four fact checks on the morning of Sept. 19, 2007 — of sta...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 31, 2020, public health emergency declaration that followed pushed those of us working in the life sciences and health care industries into uncerta...

The former president finds himself without the power of the presidency, staring at a host of prosecutors and lawyers who have him and his associates in their sights. WASHINGTON — Former President...

A video published on TikTok features an image of a purported newspaper front page with a headline claiming Kenya’s electoral commission officials were found guilty by Interpol of receiving bribes. ...

Social media companies have weak policies on misinformation and have failed to enforce them consistently ahead of the 2022 midterms, according to a new report released Monday. The report, from Ne...

A photo showing Prime minister Narendra Modi clicking pictures with the lens cap on is going viral on social media. The post claims that PM Modi was ‘pretending’ to click the photographs of cheet...