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Claims connecting sudden death in athletes to COVID-19 vaccines fall short of scrutiny

By Samantha Putterman June 23, 2022

According to International Olympic Committee data, “an average of 29 athletes under the age of 35 suffered sudden death per year from 1966 to 2004.…

Birth control

GOP Nevada Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt backed birth control restrictions as attorney general

June 23, 2022

Adam Laxalt "wants to restrict" and "worked to limit access to birth control."

Protest sign outside SCOTUS after Roe leak

Nevada GOP Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt open to tightening abortion restrictions, but not banning it

June 23, 2022

Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions."

Larry Summers

Fact-checking Larry Summers’ formula for unemployment, inflation, and recessions

By Louis Jacobson June 23, 2022

“When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years.”

Wisconsin voters in line Nov. 3, 2020

Kleefisch campaign wrong that Wisconsin had smallest margin in 2020 presidential election

By Laura Schulte June 23, 2022

“Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.”

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No, gas in Canada isn’t $9 per gallon

By Bill McCarthy June 22, 2022

“Gas in Canada is $9.00 a gallon.”

Abortion demonstrators US SCOTUS 05.03.2022

Yes, Wisconsin’s abortion law is older than 20 U.S. states

By Laura Schulte June 22, 2022

“Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states."

Marjorie Taylor Greene desk presser

Photo altered to look like it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a Soviet shirt and raising arm

June 22, 2022

A photo shows Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a Soviet shirt and giving a Nazi salute.

Joe Biden June 2022

Fact-checking Joe Biden on inflation rates among US’ economic peers

By Louis Jacobson June 22, 2022

“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”

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Viral image of gas prices is from 2015, not Jan. 6, 2021

By Grace Abels June 21, 2022

An image shows gas prices on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Viral meme shared by Benny Johnson features old, out-of-context photos in attack on Joe Biden

By Bill McCarthy June 21, 2022

A compilation of images shows what Joe Biden has “done to our country.”

Jen Psaki WH press briefing 1/10/2022

No, Psaki didn’t tweet about Biden, Trump and kneepads

June 21, 2022

Says Jen Psaki said, “President Biden might need kneepads for riding his bike, but the last guy needed kneepads for visiting the Kremlin.”

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