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Donald Trump’s flawed comparison of homicide rates in Baltimore, Central America
By John Kruzel August 2, 2019

"The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ...  I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan."

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Chelsea Handler blames Trump’s tweets for break-in at Cummings’ home. That’s wrong
By Bill McCarthy August 2, 2019

"Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter."

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Trump’s false charge that Democrats want virtual immunity for violent illegal immigrants
By Jon Greenberg August 2, 2019

Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."  

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Fact-checking the Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand spat over 1980s child care tax credit vote
By Amy Sherman August 2, 2019

"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an…

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At debate, Joe Biden said to Google ‘1,000 prisoners freed Kamala Harris.’ Time for a fact-check
By Bill McCarthy August 2, 2019

Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory…

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Are there more gun deaths in the United States than any other country?
By Madlin Mekelburg August 2, 2019

Says "we lose nearly 40,000 people in this country to gun violence, a number that no other country comes even close to."

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Tulsi Gabbard cites US arms sales to Saudi Arabia in falsely claiming Donald Trump supports al-Qaida
August 2, 2019

Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."

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No, China is not paying U.S. farmers $16B through tariffs
By Eric Litke August 2, 2019

U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."

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In Baltimore talk, Ben Carson highlights extremely low homelessness rates in Tokyo
By John Kruzel August 1, 2019

 "You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."

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Fact-checking Trump ad on Democrats, health care for immigrants illegally in the country
By Miriam Valverde August 1, 2019

Says the Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense."

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Ives falsely claims primary foe did not publicly oppose Illinois abortion bill
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller August 1, 2019

Says ex-Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti "publicly did not stand in opposition to" former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s decision to sign a bill that expanded the public…

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Fact-checking Marianne Williamson on school funding in the United States
By Bill McCarthy July 31, 2019

"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."

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