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No, Nancy Pelosi was not escorted out of a restaurant drunk
By Miriam Valverde February 29, 2020

“Nancy Pelosi being ‘escorted’ out of a restaurant, drunk again!”

Fact-checking fabricated quote about violence against non-Muslims
By Miriam Valverde February 29, 2020

“Jihad will continue until all the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists are killed. Your secularism & tolerance can not change our ideology. Quran does NOT permit…

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Obama’s Energy Department didn’t give $737 million to company employing Nancy Pelosi’s brother
By Bill McCarthy February 29, 2020

“Nancy Pelosi’s Brother’s Company Received $737 Million from Obama’s Energy Dept!”

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Social media posts issue alarmist warning about zip ties, sex trafficking
By Bill McCarthy February 29, 2020

Sex traffickers are using a zip-tie contraption on the door handles of vehicles “to trick females into looking down and digging for something in their…

Checking tweet about Chinese people detained with flu-like symptoms
By Madlin Mekelburg February 28, 2020

“Three Chinese nationals were apprehended trying to cross our Southern border illegally. Each had flu-like symptoms. Border Patrol quickly quarantined them and assessed any threat…

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Social Security payments have always been called “benefits”
By Samantha Putterman February 28, 2020

“The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a ‘Federal Benefit Payment.’”

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Post wrongly links Bloomberg spending for Toomey to Kavanaugh confirmation
By Amy Sherman February 28, 2020

“Fact: Mike Bloomberg spent $12 million to re-elect a Senate Republican (Toomey) in 2016. Toomey beat the Dem (McGinty) by 1.5 points. If McGinty had…

Josh Hawley exaggerates State Department warning in claim about Confucius Institute
By Tyler Messner February 28, 2020

“As the State Department warned Mizzou in July 2019, and as I have repeatedly stated, (the Confucius Institute) presented security risks for students & university…

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No, the coronavirus disease was not used as a weapon in a robbery
By Emily Venezky February 28, 2020

“Corona virus: Florida man arrested for robbery using cough as a weapon.”

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Rep. Mark Pocan is on point that wages haven’t moved much in the last 30 years
By Madeline Heim February 28, 2020

“There’s an Amazon distribution center that was advertising, last time I was there, up to $12.75 an hour. Your parents made that three decades ago.”

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Did Donald Trump fire pandemic officials, defund CDC?
By Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight February 28, 2020

Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the…

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Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth?
By Madlin Mekelburg February 27, 2020

Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”

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