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No, Ronald Reagan didn’t say meeting Trump felt like “shaking hands with the president”
February 4, 2019

Says that Ronald Reagan said he felt like he "was the one shaking hands with the president" when he met Donald Trump.

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No, Hillary Clinton wasn’t pictured in blackface
February 4, 2019

Says Hillary Clinton dressed up in blackface.

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No, Donald Trump’s parents were not wearing KKK robes in old photo
By Samantha Putterman February 4, 2019

A photograph shows a younger Donald Trump posing with his parents who are in Ku Klux Klan robes.

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Did tax law produce virtually no new business investment, as Joe Biden said?
By Louis Jacobson February 4, 2019

"There was virtually no new business investment" after the 2017 tax law. "The bulk was used to buy back their own stock."

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Chico’s soda tax swipe at Mendoza falls flat
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller February 3, 2019

"In Springfield, Susana Mendoza voted to hit working families with a massive new soda tax."

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GOP leaders’ claim that Foxconn won’t get a dollar of taxpayer funds without jobs is on the money
By D.L. Davis February 1, 2019

"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."

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Has the number of Border Patrol agents quadrupled since 2005?
By Miriam Valverde February 1, 2019

"Go back to 2005 until now, we have quadrupled the number of Border Patrol agents."

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No, New York abortion law doesn’t let mothers abort babies a minute before they would be born
February 1, 2019

A New York law makes it "now perfectly legal to murder" a baby a minute before it would be born.  

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Conspiracy theorists peddle fake claim about the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster
By Samantha Putterman February 1, 2019

The 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was a hoax; the crew did not die and are still alive today.

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No, 15 homeless people did not freeze to death on the streets of Chicago
By Samantha Putterman February 1, 2019

"15 homeless people have already been found frozen to death in Chicago."

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No, Ronald Reagan didn’t call Nancy Pelosi evil
February 1, 2019

Says Ronald Reagan said, "Nancy Pelosi is extremely evil."

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No, study doesn’t say drinking wine is more important than exercising
By Miriam Valverde February 1, 2019

"New research says drinking wine is more important than exercise for living past 90."

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