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    FactChecking the Ninth Democratic Debate

    • April 15, 2016

    Clinton and Sanders sparred over the minimum wage, campaign contributions, guns and more.

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    White House on Climate, Heat Deaths

    • April 12, 2016

    In a recent “fact sheet” on the threat climate change poses to human health, the White House cherry-picked data on the estimated number of premature deaths due to future extreme temperatures.

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    • April 8, 2016

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    Clinton’s Fossil Fuel Money Revisited

    • April 7, 2016

    Sen. Bernie Sanders uses padded data to back up his claim that “Hillary Clinton received $4.5 million from the fossil fuel industry.”

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    Obama’s Numbers April 2016 Update

    • April 6, 2016

    Trade deficit and illegal immigration are down; real weekly earnings and federal debt are up. Our quarterly update of Obama’s scorecard.

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McCrory on Human Rights Campaign

  • April 21, 2016

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory got his facts wrong when he criticized a gay rights group that is lobbying to repeal a controversial bill he signed to limit transgender bathroom use.

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Ted Cruz an ‘Outsider’ Like Sanders?

  • April 21, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that he and Sen. Bernie Sanders are “outsiders” who “don’t find our fuel in bundlers and special interests. But rather directly from the people.” But Cruz’s comparison to Sanders is a bit of a stretch.

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Mislabeling a ‘Liberal Insider’

  • April 21, 2016

The anti-tax group Club for Growth Action is attacking an Indiana Republican candidate for the House, Kip Tom, as a “liberal insider.” We find the evidence doesn’t support that claim.

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Cruz’s Gun Control Deception

  • April 20, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz distorted the facts in saying that Washington, D.C., and Chicago “for years” have been “right at the top of murder rates,” and claiming that most “jurisdictions with the worst murder rates” have “the very strictest gun control laws.”

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Palin ‘as Much a Scientist’ as Bill Nye?

  • April 18, 2016

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin falsely said she is “as much a scientist” as Bill Nye, best known for his children’s show, “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” Nye has multiple credentials that make him more of a scientist than Palin.

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VA Funds and Syrian Refugees

  • April 15, 2016

Q: Did President Obama cut benefits for veterans by $2.6 billion to give the money to Syrian refugees?

A: No. The Department of Veterans Affairs transferred funds to close a $2.6 billion gap in a health care program. The transfer is unrelated to Syrian refugee aid.

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FactChecking the Ninth Democratic Debate

  • April 15, 2016

Clinton and Sanders sparred over the minimum wage, campaign contributions, guns and more.

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Video: Clinton on Vermont Guns

  • April 14, 2016

This week’s fact-checking video by CNN’s Jake Tapper is on Hillary Clinton’s claim about guns from Vermont being “used in crimes and violence and killings in New York.”

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Clinton’s Vermont Gun Stat

  • April 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton claimed that Vermont was the source of the “highest per capita” number of guns that come from out of state and were “used in crimes and violence and killings in New York.” As we are fond of saying, one statistic rarely tells the entire story.

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Bill Clinton and the 1994 Crime Bill

  • April 12, 2016

Bill Clinton overstated the effect of the crime bill he signed in 1994 when he said, “because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate.” Independent analyses found it had a modest effect on crime rates.

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    Q: Did President Obama cut benefits for veterans by $2.6 billion to give the money to Syrian refugees?

    A: No. The Department of Veterans Affairs transferred funds to close a $2.6 billion gap in a health care program. The transfer is unrelated to Syrian refugee aid.

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