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Trump and Russia: Shifting answers on key questions

July 20, 2018

It was a week when the president said he said would when he meant wouldn't. When first he gave equal weight to Putin's denials and the findings of his intelligence chiefs, and then said he agreed with them completely.

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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?

Did ‘zero-tolerance’ policy reduce illegal immigration?

July 19, 2018

The Donald Trump administration billed its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy as an escalated effort needed to address a "crisis" at the border, even though apprehensions were at their lowest point in decades

In its release of June border data, the Department of Homeland Security credited the policy for a dip in migration numbers. But immigration experts said the success of one policy change is unclear with just a month’s worth of data.

The facts behind the court case Vladimir Putin said ‘falls apart’

July 18, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s charges of Russian election interference. We looked into his claims.

A walk in the woulds: Donald Trump reverses Helsinki comments on Russian election interference

July 17, 2018

Back on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump reversed his head-turning Helsinki remarks about Russian meddling.

Pot 101 update: Are there limits on smoking pot at home near kids? Where else is it legal to smoke?

July 17, 2018

Are there limits on smoking pot at home around kids? Where else can you legally light up? PolitiFact California tackles these reader questions in an update on our Pot 101 report about what’s legal and what’s not under the state’s marijuana law.

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Fact-checking Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin in Helsinki

July 16, 2018

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met one-on-one in Helsinki just days after the special counsel indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for meddling in the 2016 election. In a joint press conference, each leader made puzzling, inaccurate claims.

Did Vladimir Putin know Donald Trump was in Moscow in 2013?

July 16, 2018

At a joint press conference with President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said, "When President Trump was at Moscow back then (for the Miss Universe pageant), I didn't even know that he was in Moscow." Is that credible?

The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources (updated)

July 16, 2018

This timeline documents everything we know thus far about the investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The sources are either verified events, court filings, public statements, or on-the-record media reports.

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Fact-check look at 4 issues raised in debate for Democratic candidates for governor

July 13, 2018

Prisons vs UW, rape kits, business creation and Foxconn.

Fact-checking President Trump’s NATO summit news conference in Brussels

July 12, 2018

President Donald Trump fielded questions about the United States’ strained relationship with NATO and other topics at the conclusion of the NATO summit in Brussels.

The latest on reunification of families separated at the border, Trump immigration policy

July 12, 2018

The Trump administration’s process for reuniting immigrant families separated at the border hasn’t been easy. Pressured by a court order, officials have been working overtime to reconnect parents and children separated this summer as a result of the administration’s "zero-tolerance" policy

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