Latest Stories By Jon Greenberg

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Democrats target Republicans, Donald Trump on military money used for wall: A rundown of projects

The Defense Department took $3.6 billion from military construction projects to harden the southern border.  Democrats point out what military families and the armed forces had to give up.

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Ask PolitiFact: Are there communities in the US under Sharia law? No

A reader asked, are there communities in the United States which are under Sharia Law? Some Muslims take personal disputes to religious tribunals, but at the end of the day, U.S. law rules.

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Could Donald Trump force US firms out of China? Pretty much

Donald Trump briefly threatened and then pulled back from ordering American companies out of China. But he insisted he had the legal power to do it. He's largely right.

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Why would Trump want to buy Greenland?

The world's largest island is three times the size of Texas and about 80% covered in ice. But Donald Trump wanted to buy it. We look at how ocean warming has changed the geo-political stakes.

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The Fredo flap and the nuances of an insult

CNN host Chris Cuomo stirred up a tweetstorm when he exploded at a man who called him Fredo. Cuomo called it slur on Italian Americans. Language has more twists than that would suggest.

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Explaining the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories linked to Trump, Clinton

The details of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide have yet to come into full view, but that did nothing to stem the tide of misinformation coursing through social media channels.

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That viral tweet about mass shootings by country? It needs additional context

A tweet said the US has had 249 mass shootings this year, while Mexico had just three, and many other countries even fewer. Two problems: There's no standard defiintion of these events, and no hard data globally.

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Fact-checking Trump’s misleading attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez in North Carolina

In a North Carolina rally, President Donald Trump misled about statements by Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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“If you like your plan, you can keep it.” Biden’s health pitch invokes Obama’s troubled claim

Joe Biden says under his healthcare plan, people can keep the plans they have now. That sidesteps the ways that their plans could change.

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‘Medicare for All’ emerges as early divide in first Democratic presidential primary debate

Only two candidates went all-in for single-payer. 

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign kick-off in Florida

President Donald Trump launched his re-election bid in the key state of Florida. We fact-checked his claims about the economy, the wall with Mexico and abortion.

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