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Can prayer only include a higher power?

By Anthony Cave February 11, 2016

We compare the Arizona Legislature’s definition of prayer with what the Supreme Court has said.

Free college is true American history, Bernie Sanders insists

By W. Gardner Selby February 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders says college tuition in the U.S. was once nothing as in nada as in zero.

 

Sure, senator, and the space program ran on Tang. Oh wait: PolitiFact Florida found Sanders’ claim MOSTLY TRUE.

 

Early voting in Texas launches Tuesday Feb. 16. Wondering where to vote?

 

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See Texas presidential hopeful Ted Cruz’s Truth-O-Meter report card.

A look at recent claims by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in advance of Milwaukee debate

By James B. Nelson February 10, 2016

A look at recent statements from Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in advance of their Feb. 11 debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Launching PolitiFact Global News Service

By Jon Greenberg February 9, 2016

The new feature on our website will focus on claims about global health and development in partnership with Africa Check. Today, we launch with a pair of fact-checking -- including a Pants on Fire! claim about Zika -- and a story explaining the problems the electrical grid in many African countries.

Launching PolitiFact Global News Service

By Jon Greenberg February 9, 2016

The new feature on our website will focus on claims about global health and development in partnership with Africa Check. Today, we launch with a pair of fact-checks -- including a Pants on Fire! claim about Zika -- and a story explaining the problems the electrical grid in many African countries.

Austin Mayor Steve Adler fulfills five campaign promises, breaks one

By W. Gardner Selby February 8, 2016

In his first year, Austin Mayor Steve Adler kept about a third of 16 campaign promises we're tracking on the PolitiFact Texas Adler-O-Meter.

 

Adler also had a promise rated STALLED and three promises graded IN THE WORKS. Adler's one BROKEN promise was his unfulfilled idea to have the Austin City Council jointly visit council districts.

 

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Reader: Ted Cruz ‘dead-on’ about cancelled health plans in Texas

By W. Gardner Selby February 5, 2016

Readers questioned our fiery rating of a Ted Cruz claim that Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas had cancelled all individual health insurance policies in Texas, effective Dec. 31.

 

Let's open the PolitiFact Texas mailbag.

Did Ted Cruz gin up Iowa voter histories?

By W. Gardner Selby February 4, 2016

Just before Iowa’s presidential caucuses, Ted Cruz’s campaign poked some Hawkeye State voters with mailers criticized as deceptive by the state’s chief elections official. Could it be too that Cruz concocted personal voting histories for Iowans (and their neighbors) who got the mailers?

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