New Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi is on leave after disclosing a personal relationship with a "reporting subject," which has been identified as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent 2024 presidential candidate. “Earlier this year, the nature of some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal. During that time, I did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source,” she said in a statement to CNN. “The relationship was never physical but should have...

Vice President Kamala Harris has not announced a plan to shut down all Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) if she wins the presidency, though she does have a history of supporting efforts to regulate the centers. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on AZCIR.

A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the Israeli strike in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood killed Ibrahim Aqil, a senior commander in the terror group’s elite Radwan unit. “The Israeli air strike killed Radwan Force commander Ibrahim Aqil, its armed force’s second-in-command after Fuad Shukr,” who was killed by an Israeli strike in July, also in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold, says the source who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Claim: A photo shared online in September 2024 authentically showed Sean "Diddy" Combs posing next to Barack Obama. Why no truth rating on this claim? While the available evidence suggests the photograph in question is very likely authentic, Snopes has not yet been able to verify directly with the parties involved. We will update this fact check should more evidence become available. 

 Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hosted a town hall Thursday in Springfield, Ohio, a city that's been thrust into the 2024 race, calling for an open conversation on the migrant debate dividing the country. "We've been told, mostly by the media, to shut up, sit down, do as you're told, to sweep it under the rug, or else you're guilty of some sin," Ramaswamy began the town hall Thursday evening. "And I just think that the truth in this country is we don'...

The Uncommitted National Movement, a coalition of antiwar activists attempting to push the Democratic Party to cut off arms to Israel and secure a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, said on Thursday it would not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris while encouraging its followers not to vote for former President Donald Trump nor third-party candidates in key swing states. Trump will “accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing,” the group said in ...

A Kentucky sheriff faces murder charges in connection with the deadly shooting of a local judge in his chambers on Thursday afternoon. Authorities say Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, shot District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, on Thursday afternoon after an argument inside the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Here's what to know about the shooting.

The Israeli military said it carried out a "targeted strike" in Beirut on Friday, as social media video showed smoke rising from the site of an apparent attack in the Lebanese capital. "At this moment, there are no changes in the Home Front Command defensive guidelines," the Israel Defence Forces said in a statement. The White House earlier warned both Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group against "escalation of any kind" following this week's synchronized pager and...

America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday for allegedly concealing government documents in relation to the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. AFL alleges that the DHS and the USSS blocked requests to obtain information about staffing shortages, employment standards and communications between department officials that related to the assassination...

Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a lifelong Democrat, supports stricter gun laws and contributes to Sandy Hook Promise, a gun-violence-prevention nonprofit.  But this summer, the liquor store clerk in Iowa City, Iowa, for the first time in his life bought a gun. Apprehension about street crime, armed right-wing extremists, and “whatever else the world could possibly throw at us,” drove his decision. “Domestic politics have grown increasingly acrimonious,” says Ciemnoczolowski, 43.