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World Health Day: Who’s leading the charge on TB research?

By Jon Greenberg April 7, 2016

With private drug companies backing away from infectious disease research, governments and foundations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rein in tuberculosis. The World Health Organization says $1.3 billion more each year is needed to get ahead of the world's second most lethal infectious disease.

Fact-checking the Starbucks heckler-Rick Scott spat

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson April 6, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott tried to get a cup of coffee from one of his favorite spots, Starbucks, on Tuesday in Gainesville.

He got a jolt, all right. A community activist let him have it over cuts to health care under his reign. 

After Wisconsin, the presidential scorecards

By Angie Drobnic Holan April 6, 2016

Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders won resounding victories in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday. We check in on how the candidates are doing on our Truth-O-Meter. 

March High Five: Our most-clicked items for the month

By James B. Nelson April 6, 2016

As the Wisconsin primary approached, PolitiFact Wisconsin readers dialed up candidates records.
 

PolitiFact’s Top 5 fact-checks for March 2016

By Lauren Carroll April 4, 2016

With heated primaries on both sides of the aisle, most of our Top 5 fact checks from March focused on the two so-called outsider candidates: Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

 

Top 5 for PolitiFact Florida in March 2016

By Amy Sherman April 4, 2016

Florida’s presidential primary as well as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fueled the Truth-O-Meter.

 

Claims we’ve rated in the Milwaukee County executive race

By James B. Nelson April 4, 2016

Incumbent Chris Abele faces state Sen. Chris Larson in the race for Milwaukee County executive.

Fact-checking Hillary Clinton’s appearance on ‘Meet the Press’

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Linda Qiu April 4, 2016

The Democratic candidate for preisdent and former secretary of state said she's "put out all my emails." That's not quite right.

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What causes most gun violence in Philly

By Cassie Owens April 4, 2016

While new city Police Commissioner Richard Ross claims most shootings are retaliatory -- not drug-related -- experts point to a deeper cause.

Sorting out Hillary Clinton’s fossil fuel contributions

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. April 1, 2016

With so many accusations flying around in the Democratic presidential primary, we thought it was important to lay out the facts of the matter.

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