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  100 Straight Minutes of Lying 3.5.25 Ally Sammarco Mar 6   Happy Wednesday and welcome back to  Today’s American News , your source for news and analysis on the circus that is American politics and entertainment. Fact checkers call out Trump for no-truth SOTU…   We’ll spare you a lot of details from Trump’s State of the Union speech last evening, but we wanted to offer some fact-checking ammo in case it’s helpful. It’s the same old Trump. Here’s  CBS News , breaking down five False and three Misleading Trump claims.   Factcheck.org   took on Trump’s lies on autism and his fairy-tale invention of 37,000 American deaths in the building of the Panama Canal. Totally normal stuff, right?  Politifact   disappointed with a no-ratings recap.  NPR  did an annotated fact check, earning points for innovation. The  Associated Press  took on multiple false and misleading Trump claims, including made-up nonsense about Americans older ...

By  Calder McHugh Presented by  President Donald Trump, right, meets Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington today. | Chris Kleponis via CNP LIMITED GUARANTEE  — When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington at Blair House — the presidential guest house opposite the White House — he was greeted by a gesture of goodwill: the Union Jack flying outside. The only problem? The  flag was upside down  . The honest mistake proved emblematic of Starmer’s visit, a well-intended gesture that didn’t exactly accomplish its intended result. The prime minister and the president didn’t make much concrete progress and had little to announce beyond expected platitudes about increased cooperation. Starmer has learned to speak Trump’s language, flattering him and praising the United States enough that Trump appears to have genuine affection for the center-left prime minister. And yet Trump remains unmove...