USA Today

The reporting we cite

6 stories, each opening at its source.

• USA Today: DOJ's response to Judge Sullivan's order
• USA Today fact-check on WTC7 collapse
• Study (2022): conservative state policies associated with higher working-age mortality across eight policy domains
• USA Today — Deters, who was seeking Guilfoyle's help with legal matters, says he did not pay
• USA Today, A look at former Israeli leader Ehud Barak’s decade-plus friendship with Epstein (December 18, 2025)
• USA Today — Pentagon refers the general it fired for criminal prosecution, accusing him of leaking

Where their work appears on this site

• Access for Sale →
• If the Ideology Is Better, Where Are the Results? →
• The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
• The Duty to Refuse →
• The Austerity Myth →
• The Epstein Class →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Return on Investment →
• Who Controls What You Get to Know →

How we graded the claims built on their work

6 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. DOJ's July 2 Defiance Filing

   FACT
   The Epstein Class →

2. DOJ's July 2, 2026 non-compliant filing

   FACT
   The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →

3. Epstein Files Transparency Act — Public Law 119-38

   FACT
   The Epstein Class →

4. Larry Silverstein and the WTC lease

   PROBABLY TRUE
   Israeli Influence on the United States →

5. Peer-reviewed research ties conservative state policy — not just Southern history — to shorter lives.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   If the Ideology Is Better, Where Are the Results? →

6. She offered access to top officials — and the donor was seeking help with his own legal matters.

   FACT
   Access for Sale →

7. The Ehud Barak relationship

   FACT
   The Epstein Class →

8. With the internal channels closed, the one route left — the press — is being met with prosecution.

   FACT
   The Duty to Refuse →