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Did Gavin Newsom ‘separate families and deport children’ in San Francisco?

July 12, 2018

John Cox, Newsom's GOP opponent in the race for California governor, made this claim. PolitiFact California found there's some truth, but it's also missing some important context.

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A look at White House turnover under Trump, Obama following Scott Pruitt’s exit

July 11, 2018

Scott Pruitt’s resignation marks the latest in a series of speedy departures from President Donald Trump’s White House. Inching toward the year and a half mark of Trump’s presidency, we decided to check back in on the turnover rate of his administration.

What Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has said on abortion

July 10, 2018

Here's what we know so far about his record on abortion cases, and why experts say Democrats are sounding the alarm too early.

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President Trump’s Supreme Court Pick: Brett Kavanaugh

July 10, 2018

President Donald Trump has announced his next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Ken Paxton no longer nation’s only indicted statewide official

July 9, 2018

Ken Paxton's reign as the nation's sole indicted statewide official didn't last long.

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Mailbag: ‘Ya gotta do better’

July 9, 2018

With tensions rising with global trading partners, trade was the leading topic that motivated PolitiFact readers to write to us in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of recent emails about trade, as well as other issues.

Fact-checking an immigration meme that’s been circulating for more than a decade

July 5, 2018

A viral image on social media -- one that’s critical of illegal immigration -- has been circulating for years. The list of claims first circulated in the form of a chain email in 2006, according to Snopes.com. Six years later, we checked several of the claims ourselves. With immigration in the headlines today, these claims are popular again. So we’ll take a fresh look at them here.

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Democrats’ playbook for stopping Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick

July 3, 2018

As President Donald Trump moves closer to nominating a Supreme Court justice, Democrats are scrambling for a strategy to stop a nominee that would tilt the court in a more conservative direction and reverse liberal gains.

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‘Abolish ICE’ movement is growing. Is the agency’s disbanding likely?

July 3, 2018

Calls to "abolish ICE" have grown louder as the Trump administration deals with fall-out from its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, which led to the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents. As the calls to abolish ICE persist, PolitiFact decided to take a closer look at the agency’s role, what Democrats have said, whether they want "open borders" as President Donald Trump claims, and the likelihood that ICE will be abolished.

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‘Pretending to be gay’

July 3, 2018

Examining GOP claim about remarks in 2011 by Kelda Roys, Democrat for governor.

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When George Washington fought fake news

July 2, 2018

Even George Washington had to fight fake news. Here's the story.

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