Latest Fact Checks By Warren Fiske

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Is racial gap in infant mortality higher today than in 1850, as Beto O’Rourke says?

April 23, 2019
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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Warner omits VCU from Final Four hoops history

April 16, 2019
Other than University of Virginia’s 2019 basketball team, "We’ve not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think…
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McAuliffe does full flop on late-term abortion bill

April 9, 2019
On a bill that would have eased third-trimester abortion resrictions  
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Del. Kaye Kory way off about surge of women prisoners in Virginia

April 2, 2019
"Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It’s around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years."  
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McAuliffe claim of record K-12 spending is misleading

March 26, 2019
During his governorship, Virginia made "the largest investment ever in K-12 education."  
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Bobby Scott says women earn 80 percent pay of white men for ‘similar’ jobs

March 13, 2019
"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."
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GOP has put more blacks on key Va. House committees than Democrats did in their day

March 5, 2019
Virginia House "Republicans have had more African-Americans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control."  
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Morgan Griffith’s claim U.S. has cut greenhouse emissions is tenuous

February 26, 2019
"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."  
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Trump falsely claims Northam said he’d let doctors ‘execute’ newborns

February 20, 2019
Says Gov. Ralph Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world... then talk to the mother and…
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Bobby Scott is right about falling value of minimum wage

February 13, 2019
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
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Del. Kathy Tran is wrong saying bill wouldn’t change late-term abortion laws

February 6, 2019
"Right now, women are able to access an abortion in the later stages of their pregnancy under certain conditions with approval of their medical doctors.…
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