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Border apprehensions outpace previous years, but analyst calls numbers misleading

By Vanessa Swales August 18, 2022

"With three months remaining in the Fiscal Year, (the border patrol) has already encountered more illegal immigrants along the Southwest border" than in any previous…

Rick Scott overstates potential hiring surge at the IRS

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann August 17, 2022

The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State…

No leaked messages before Mar-a-Lago search

August 17, 2022

Leaked messages “between former President Barack Obama and Judge Reinhart foreshadowed the unlawful raid on former Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.”

Tim Scott mangles false GOP talking point on IRS hounding average taxpayers

By Jon Greenberg August 17, 2022

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and…

Polio was found in New York wastewater, not its tap water

August 17, 2022

There’s polio in New York City’s tap water.

Bob Good makes misleading comments about ‘army’ of IRS agents

By Jon Greenberg, Warren Fiske August 17, 2022

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits…

Did Congress just warn of a zombie attack? No, that video is fake, and satirical

August 17, 2022

Video shows Congress voting for a highly classified “Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Bill.”

No, Kinzinger didn’t say Trump won the election

August 17, 2022

Rep. Adam Kinzinger “admits Trump won” the 2020 presidential election.

No, Anne Heche wasn’t murdered because she was working on a movie about Epstein

August 16, 2022

Anne Heche was murdered by the illuminati because she was working on a movie about Jeffrey Epstein.

Wisconsin among the top so far in allocating federal COVID funds to businesses

By D.L. Davis August 16, 2022

"We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID-19 relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal…

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No, sending postcards to states will not lead to decertification of 2020 ballots

By Amy Sherman August 16, 2022

"Send your postcards to 5 key states to decertify fraud” in the 2020 election.

Reuters didn’t report that a White House staffer used a Nazi symbol in a tweet

August 16, 2022

Reuters reported that “White House employee Andrew Bates did use Nazi symbolism in a recent tweet."

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