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In 2019, the United States will rack up about $100 million in debt every hour
By Madlin Mekelburg February 28, 2019

"We amass about $100 million in debt per hour, which means we've blown through 300, 400, 450 million dollars during this charade."

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Kamala Harris tries to ‘rewrite history’ with False claim on San Francisco ICE policy
By Chris Nichols February 28, 2019

Says handing over arrested undocumented youth to ICE "was an unintended consequence" of a 2008 San Francisco policy that she supported.

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NC education bill won’t change student or school grades
By Paul Specht February 28, 2019

Says NC bill would change the grading scale.

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Wisconsin lawmaker’s claim about rainy day fund is on the money
By Mica Soellner February 28, 2019

"The rainy day fund … is $320 million. That's much more than what it has been in the past."  

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweet saying Democrats ‘don’t mind executing’ babies after birth
By Louis Jacobson February 28, 2019

"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

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Bernie Sanders has numbers to show Donald Trump wanted to cut health care for 32 million
By Jon Greenberg February 28, 2019

"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."

Sen. Rick Scott presser in DC Jan 2019
No, the Green New Deal doesn’t aim to end air travel, as Florida Sen. Rick Scott says
By Amy Sherman February 28, 2019

The Democrats’ Green New Deal includes "working towards ending air travel."

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Republicans mostly wrong about NC governor breaking Supreme Court tradition
By Paul Specht February 27, 2019

Says replacing NC Supreme Court Chief Justice with most experienced justice is a "longstanding, nonpartisan tradition."

Does entering prostitution mean you have seven years to live?
By Madison Conte February 27, 2019

A girl’s "life expectancy is seven years after entering into prostitution."

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Does West Virginia have the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate?
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli February 27, 2019

West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."

No, state laws don’t criminalize just any criticism
By Yanqi Xu February 27, 2019

"Half the states in the U.S. have laws that criminalize criticism."

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Fact-checking Tulsi Gabbard on farmers’ bankruptcies, median income
By Miriam Valverde February 27, 2019

Farmers are declaring bankruptcy "in record numbers" and "the median income for U.S. farm households was -$1,548 in 2018."

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