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No, Rashida Tlaib did not tweet about ‘raping and pillaging’ America
By Samantha Putterman January 9, 2019

New U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib tweeted "Americans have spent decades raping and pillaging my people. What goes around comes around."

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Warren overstates share of tax cuts for the rich
By Jon Greenberg January 9, 2019

With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."  

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Trump gets facts wrong on Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
By John Kruzel January 9, 2019

"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia."

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin makes hay with farm loss claim
By D.L. Davis January 9, 2019

"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."

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No, an election board leader didn’t try to ‘drag’ a woman out of the hospital
By Paul Specht January 8, 2019

Says former North Carolina elections board chairman "tried to drag a cancer-stricken woman out of her hospital bed to testify at her son’s hearing on…

Contrary to Falwell claim, Trump did worse than ‘average president’ in first midterm
By Warren Fiske January 8, 2019

"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."  

Stop likening Melania Trump’s quote on family separation to Eva Braun
January 8, 2019

Melania Trump echoed Hitler’s wife when she said: "I hate to see children separated from their parents like this . . . but we can…

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The NC Democrats overstated this law’s effect on election investigations
By Paul Specht January 7, 2019

Legislators are "ramming through a provision that’ll make investigations like #NC09 less transparent."

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Fact-checking claim that Elizabeth Warren takes antipsychotic medication
By Samantha Putterman January 7, 2019

Says Sen. Elizabeth Warren "has been on Risperdal since first being prescribed the drug in 2011."

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Conspiracists falsely suggest U.S. reporter’s sudden death was linked to a story
January 7, 2019

A woman died mysteriously after reporting on Robert Mueller destroying text messages.

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Are police warning the public about poison being injected into the caps of water bottles?
By Samantha Putterman January 7, 2019

Says law enforcement officials alerted the public to check the caps of bottled water for tampering because someone is injecting poison into them, and that…

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Cuomo: New York’s paid family leave is best
By Jill Terreri Ramos January 7, 2019

New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.

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