The late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

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Tuesday marks President Donald Trump's first full day in office. Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's coverage of his top priorities for Americans.

Tuesday marks Donald Trump's first full day in office. Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage on his top priorities for Americans.

Tuesday marks Donald Trump's first full day in office. Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage on his top priorities for Americans.

The sight of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and others at President Trump’s swearing-in was another sign of how business is adapting to a new Washington.

Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky was in attendance with his wife, Janet Jones. Trump has teased the former Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers star. On Christmas Day, Trump urged Gretzky to become the next prime minister of Canada.

The coalition is achingly close to achieving a long-held conservative dream — of fashioning a high-low alliance powerful enough to supplant the liberal establishment and remake America. It is a project that might well collapse if one side or the other gets too much of what it wants, and ends up driving the other away.

On its own, fact-checking “doesn’t reach those exposed to misinformation,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the University of Pennsylvania, who started FactCheck.org. “It tends to reach audiences that were already knowledgeable and wary.”