Latest Stories By Manuela Tobias

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Your Kavanaugh-Ford hearing questions answered

September 27, 2018

In the course of four hours, Ford talked about an assault in a bedroom some 36 years ago before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s an account that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh later vehemently denied. ​

Fact-checking internet rumors about Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

September 26, 2018

As Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ford's authenticity is under attack across social media. Here’s a rundown of the most prominent claims about Ford on the internet, fact-checked.

Trade and tariffs in 5 charts: A 2018 midterm report

September 24, 2018

As tariffs and counter-tariffs hitting the agriculture and manufacturing industries mount ahead of the midterm elections, we decided to revisit some trade basics using five charts.

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Fact-checking Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings

September 7, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, is facing a tough confirmation hearing in the Senate. Here is the factual context behind the most contentious moments.

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s rally for Mike Braun in Evansville, Indiana

August 31, 2018

President Donald Trump presented a familiar array of falsehoods in his rally in Evansville, Ind., for Mike Braun, a Republican state senator and businessman running for U.S. Senate.

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Fact-checking Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

August 30, 2018

BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s latest film, tells the tale of a black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan between 1978 and 1979. We fact-checked what's real and what's not.

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Back to school: Is the United States falling behind on education?

August 20, 2018

The United States spends big on education. But what is the return on that investment compared with the rest of the world? The answer is not amazing, but not terrible, either.

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Trump directed the Pentagon to create a Space Force. What would it look like?

August 13, 2018

The idea of a galactic military branch certainly has been a topic of much speculation, so we took a closer look. Experts told us the space force is probably not as exciting or likely to exist as the Trump team makes it sound.

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Why Infowars’ Alex Jones was banned from Apple, Facebook, Youtube and Spotify

August 7, 2018

Over the course of 24 hours, most social media giants kicked one of the most infamous conspiracy theory peddlers off their platforms. Here's why.

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The effects of Donald Trump’s trade war

July 30, 2018

With President Donald Trump's tariffs and retaliatory tariffs in place, we took a close look at their effects on the economy.

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Chris Wallace asked why Vladimir Putin’s critics end up dead. Here are the details

July 19, 2018

Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subjects President Donald Trump failed to bring up in an interview following the press conference. We wanted to know: Do people who oppose Putin end up dead, or close to it?

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