Latest Stories By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Health care reform: A simple explanation

We've knocked down a lot of false claims about the health bill, telling you what it's not . Here we take time out to tell you what it is .

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The Truth-O-Meter on health care: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

With so many claims and counterclaims, we choose our 10 most significant Truth-O-Meter items.

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Obama faces a town hall … and the Truth-O-Meter

We check two statements from President Obama's town hall in Portsmouth, N.H. We find he's right about coverage for janitors but exaggerating whether you can keep your health plan.

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Palin ‘death panel’ claim sets Truth-O-Meter ablaze

Palin spins a dystopian scenario where the elderly and disabled must petition for care. But that's not part of any actual health care legislation.

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E-mail ‘analysis’ of health bill needs a check-up

Readers sent us a chain e-mail that comments on the House health reform bill page by page. Most of its factual assertions are wrong.

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Break out the marshmallows!

It's double Pants on Fire! day at PolitiFact.com: We check a chain e-mail on illegal immigrants and comments from TV and radio personality Glenn Beck.

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Gates incident spurs discussion on race, crime

Pundits are talking after last week's arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. We check their facts.

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Mailbag: ‘Seriously twisted logic’

Readers take us to task for our items on oil imports, Hamas and incandescent light bulbs.

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Obama wrong about health insurance profits

We check the president's claim about insurance company profits (False) and an unusual one from a health group leader about end-of-life care for seniors (Pants on Fire!).

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Health care reform bill jolts the Obameter

With a 1,000-page bill now pending in Congress, we move 10 promises from No Action to In the Works.

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Rush to judgment

A left-leaning group says Republican Congressman Adam Putnam was silent after Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Actually, Putnam spoke up.

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