CBS News
Our investigations stand on CBS News' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
26 stories, each opening at its source.
- CBS News — newly obtained video of the gallows construction near the Capitol
- CBS News — Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes (NYT report, 2020)
- Palestinian-American suit names philanthropists and firms backing settlements — CBS News San Francisco
- CBS News Philadelphia — Krasner v. Musk hearing
- CBS News — Trump Jr.'s wife says the Russian oligarch hosted the post-wedding festivities as a 'gift'
- CBS News — Johnson sends House home early amid push to force an Epstein-files vote
- CBS News — Trump signs order quadrupling Argentine beef imports
- CBS 60 Minutes — Frances Haugen and the internal Instagram research
- CBS News — Halliburton: All In The Family (Sept. 19, 2003, on the pre-invasion no-bid KBR contract)
- CBS News Miami — Altman dismissed the Florida transgender-sports challenge
- CBS News: No Labels abandons plans for 'unity' ticket in 2024 presidential race (Apr 4, 2024)
- CBS News — 'Face the Nation' transcript, Isaac Herzog (Nov 12, 2023)
- CBS News investigation on Trump-linked pardon lobbying
- CBS News on the ruling and its contents
- CBS News on the Puerto Rico pardons
- At least $46M documented as 'misappropriated' per Wexner's own letter (Aug 2019)
- CBS News — 'Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls for AI to be developed as fast as we can' (Jo Ling Kent interview, aired Sept 20, 2026)
- CBS News — Leon Black, a former close associate of Epstein, defies the subpoena
- CBS News — Cooper's South Africa 'white genocide' segment (transcript)
- CBS News: Justice Department blocked release of secret Epstein drug probe file, U.S. senator says
- CBS News — DOJ to deploy a record number of election monitors for the 2026 midterms
- CBS News — Did LBJ Cover For Israel? (USS Liberty response, 1967)
- CBS News — a related California skincare store (Bee & Co.) accused of the same coercive, separate-and-sell method
- CBS News — the 5 biggest ways Fred Trump made Donald rich
- CBS News Miami — Grand jury finds DeSantis administration 'misappropriated' $10 million
- CBS News / 60 Minutes — Epstein's autopsy, a closer look (Baden's homicide assessment; ME stands by suicide)
Where their work appears on this site
- A Crime to Repeat It →
- Data Centers, Cows, and Your Water →
- The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
- In Their Own Words →
- A sitting federal judge's second job: defending Israel →
- A Million a Day →
- The Bipartisan Mask →
- The Pardon Market →
- Protecting Insurrectionists →
- Read Between the Lines →
- A Hacker at the Voting-Rights Desk →
- Suing the Subpoena →
- The $18,000 Face Cream →
- The $750 President →
- The Artificial State →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Engagement Machine →
- The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
- The Epstein-Files Blockade →
- The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
- The Small Loan →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Looting the American Public →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Corporate State →
- The Dulles Blueprint →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Real Voter Fraud? →
- The Tech Right →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
27 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Protecting Insurrectionists →
'Legitimate political discourse' — the RNC's own words vs. the violence on video.
FACT - The $750 President →
$750 — the federal income tax he paid the year he was elected, and the year after.
FACT - The Ellison Press →
A civil lawsuit names Ellison among defendants it alleges helped fund West Bank settlements.
FACT - A Million a Day →
A Philadelphia judge denied the DA's request to halt the giveaway, which ran through Election Day — a denial of preliminary relief, not a ruling that it was legal.
FACT - The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
A Russian oligarch close to Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president's son's wedding celebration — and the couple confirms it.
FACT - The Epstein-Files Blockade →
As the push to force a vote gained steam, House leaders canceled the last two work weeks before the midterms.
FACT - Data Centers, Cows, and Your Water →
At the same time, the administration is sharply raising beef imports from Argentina.
FACT - The Engagement Machine →
Facebook's own research found Instagram harms teenage girls.
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
Halliburton, KBR, and the privatization Cheney built
FACT - A sitting federal judge's second job: defending Israel →
He is a life-tenured federal judge appointed by Trump.
FACT - The Bipartisan Mask →
In 2024, No Labels ran a dark-money-funded third-party ‘unity ticket’ widely assessed as a Trump spoiler — then abandoned it.
FACT - In Their Own Words →
Isaac Herzog, President: 'it's an entire nation out there that is responsible.'
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Joseph Schwartz — Owner, Skyline Healthcare nursing home chain
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's June 25, 2026 preliminary injunction
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Julio Herrera Velutini — Venezuelan-Italian banker, Bancrédito International Bank & Trust
PROBABLY TRUE - The Epstein Class →
Leslie Wexner
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Mo Strategies / Blessinger Legal — Emerging pardon-lobbying firm
FACT - Read Between the Lines →
Nvidia's Jensen Huang said the AI labs aren't asking for more laws — they're asking to be relieved of the ones we have.
FACT - The Epstein Class →
Sullivan Preliminary Injunction — 48 pages, on the record
FACT - Suing the Subpoena →
The context Congress is probing: $158 million to Epstein, and an exit from the top of Apollo.
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The delayed debunk: Trump's 'white genocide' claim.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
The Deputy Attorney General personally intervened to keep the memo from Congress.
FACT - A Hacker at the Voting-Rights Desk →
The DOJ plans a record ~1,000 federal election monitors for the November 2026 midterms.
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The Johnson pivot — what changed after November 22
FACT - The $18,000 Face Cream →
The method the complaint describes: free sample, separation, back room, no refund.
FACT - The Small Loan →
The myth: a 'small loan of a million dollars' — false.
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Artificial State →
The swing-state inducement: $1 million a day to sign a petition — a DA called it an illegal lottery; a judge let it run.
FACT - A Crime to Repeat It →
The underlying finding: a statewide grand jury found the DeSantis administration 'misappropriated' $10 million into Hope Florida.
FACT - The $750 President →
The write-offs that raise eyebrows: hairstyling, and 'consulting fees' to family.
SOME SMOKE - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier A · Jeffrey Epstein (2019) — the only death with real forensic smoke.
SOME SMOKE - The Pardon Market →
Wanda Vázquez Garced — Former Governor of Puerto Rico
FACT - Read Between the Lines →
Who's saying it matters: Huang is talking against his own commercial interest, which makes the admission harder to wave off.
FACT