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A draft of the WHO’s pandemic accord says that the document will be used with respect to individual’s personal freedoms.

Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa will be a featured keynote speaker at GlobalFact 11, the world’s largest fact-checking summit, hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network at ...

Experts say ‘ban’ has emerged as shorthand for nearly all abortion prohibitions. The blunt term often leaves room for political spin.

Chloe Nguyen, an alumnus of Duke University, was a Poynter-Google News Initiative misinformation fellow with WRAL News in ...

China’s population is poised to age dramatically in the coming years, posing financial strains to retirement pensions. But in recent remarks, President Joe Biden said this pain had already occurred.

Since you’re visiting Poynter’s website, I’ll assume you’ve heard this before: America’s local news ecosystem is in crisis. Across the country, local newspapers are closing down. This trend has ...

The first two singles from ‘Cowboy Carter’ landed on Billboard’s country charts. Some social posts claimed they didn’t get there on their own merit.

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Experts believe the worm was Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. This worm does not ‘eat’ brain tissue. ​ ...

Trump repeated a bevy of inaccurate claims about the economy during an interview with WGAL-TV, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, station ...