Latest Stories By Julie Kliegman

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Greatest hits of the Virginia governor’s race (so far)

PolitiFact Virginia has fact-checked claims about government shutdowns, Social Security, abortion, guns and more. We review the most compelling fact-checks of the campaign to date.

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Tom Cotton on the Truth-O-Meter

The campaign has already started in the 2014 race for Senate in Arkansas. We fact-checked two claims recently from Republican challenger Tom Cotton.

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10 things Obamacare supporters say that aren’t entirely true

The law’s supporters sometimes paint an overly rosy picture of the health care law. We match the rhetoric to reality.

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Democrats who supported Syria action rewrite history on Iraq war

Secretary of State John Kerry and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., trounced on history as they supported President Obama’s moves against Syria.

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Michele Bachmann’s comments on 9/11 and the Muslim Brotherhood

Bachmann's recent remarks on Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11 could leave a wrong impression with some listeners. So we set the record straight about who was responsible for the 2001 terror attacks.

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Will Weatherford weighs education and health care funding

The Florida State House speaker said, "As a society, we spend more money on people's health care in the last six or 12 months of their life than we spend in the first 18 years of their life educating them." We take a closer look at the data.

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Fact-checks for the St. Petersburg mayoral election

As St. Petersburg nears the Aug. 27 mayoral election primary, we round up claims we fact-checked from the three major candidates.

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