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Trump officials defended Abrego Garcia's detention and deportation by continuing to level accusations against him since wrongly deporting him in March to an El Salvador maximum-security prison. Here's what we know about Abrego Garcia's history.

Resurrecting longstanding complaints about how U.S. elections are run, President Donald Trump this week reiterated that he wants faster election results, but doesn't want voting machines.

Democratics have continued to push for records about Jeffrey Epstein since 2018, although they dialed it back after Joe Biden took office, with Debbie Wasserman Schulttz citing "a need to respect both the victims' pursuit of justice in courts and their fears of reprisals."

In an interview with CNN," U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., blamed Obama for the "sweetheart deal" given to Epstein, a sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019. PolitiFact and WLRN assess whether this is true or not.

PolitiFact found three reports that showed Florida last or second-to-last nationally on mental health care — one from 2025 and two based on data that is at least a decade old. Other rankings put it in a slightly better light.

A few days after a flash flood in Texas killed at least 135 people, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier promoted a new law he says will help the state avoid the same scenario.

Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month's arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz's detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren't written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.

President Donald Trump has said the policy bill fulfills a campaign promise to end older Americans' taxes on Social Security. A quirk in Senate rules prevents that, but it is still a significant accomplishment.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida criticized New York's Medicaid program, saying it gets far more from the federal government than his state. PolitiFact looked into his statement.

Responding to charges that President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill would cut Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, Trump administration officials misleadingly counter that it targets only waste, fraud and abuse.

So far in 2025, Canadian travel bookings to Florida airports are down. The estimated decrease varies depending on the information source.