Latest Stories By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Obama exaggerates his record on campaign promises

He says he's kept 70 percent of his promises. But our Obameter says the number is much lower.

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Checking in on tough campaign promises

No one said the presidency was easy! We report the latest on closing Guantanamo, stopping extreme rendition, enforcing paygo rules, and ending the abuse of supplemental war budgets.

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Fact-checking Austan Goolsbee

The new head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers answers questions on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" -- and makes his debut with the Truth-O-Meter.

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Obama, back in campaign mode, jabs at GOP

With Democrats facing tough 2010 midterm elections, Obama attacks Republicans in two speeches.

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Mailbag: ‘Glenn Beck rules, PolitiFact drools.’

Readers sound off on our latest fact-checks about the New York City mosque, government spending and Glenn Beck.

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Democratic exaggerations about “privatizing Social Security”

The Democratic talking point that Republicans want to "privatize Social Security" has been a potent attack since 2005, when it helped defeat a proposal from President Bush. Now Democrats are using it against Republican candidates.

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Why do so many people think Obama is a Muslim?

President Barack Obama has declared himself a Christian. He has worshipped in Christian churches, prayed with Christian ministers, and recounted how he knelt beneath a cross and felt God's spirit.

And yet, a surprising number of Americans keep telling pollsters they believe he's a Muslim.

The Pew Research Center last week reported that 18 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. A Time magazine poll also released last week found even more -- 24 percent -- said he was a Muslim.

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Obama keeps his promise on getting combat troops out of Iraq

Plans for Iraq unfold much as Obama described during the 2008 campaign.

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Mailbag: ‘If I could marry a website, I’d be Mrs. PolitiFact.com’

For our latest Mailbag, we sample the feedback from e-mail and Twitter. One reader calls us a "socialist propaganda machine." Another wants to marry us.

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Fact-checking ‘This Week with Christiane Amanpour’

We look into statements from the Sunday morning news shows.

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Do Democrats have a plan to extend Bush tax cuts?

We check Sarah Palin's claim that Democrats don't have a plan.

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