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Clinton versus Reagan, Rick Perry’s letter, North Korea’s World Cup chances:

July 22, 2014

Hillary Clinton claims her husband was "a hundred times" more effective at creating jobs than President Ronald Reagan. Time for today's PolitiFact Oregon Roundup.

Fact-checking Georgia’s U.S. Senate primary

July 22, 2014

It's been a bruising battle between veteran Savannah Congressman Jack Kingston and millionaire businessman David Perdue. PolitiFact Georgia has been fact-checking the contest for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. 

Scott Walker on gay marriage ban ruling: “I don’t have any choice” but to appeal. Is he right?

July 21, 2014

Gov. Scott Walker says his oath of office rather than political calculations explain his appeal of a federal court decision overturning Wisconsin’s ban on gay marriage. We examine how much discretion, if any, he had.

PunditFact fact-checks the July 20 news shows

July 20, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on all five major Sunday news shows, making the case that Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists were responsible for the shoot down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. We fact-checked two of Kerry’s claims.

 

Fact-checking the July 20 news shows

July 20, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on all five major Sunday news shows, making the case that Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists were responsible for the shoot down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. We fact-checked two of Kerry’s claims.

 

Most Texans aren’t Hispanic–yet

July 20, 2014

Roberto Alonzo got it wrong when he said Latinos comprise the majority of Texas residents. But the state’s population mix is changing.

Your guide to the Sunday July 20 news shows

July 19, 2014

Every Friday PunditFact gives you the first look at the guests on the Sunday news shows. On Sunday, we see if what they said is true. You can read how they fared here or weekly in the Daily Beast.

Rick Perry, Rand Paul and American interventionism

July 18, 2014

Are Rick Perry, Rand Paul and Barack Obama on the same page on Iraq?

Did Hillary Clinton ask to be ‘relieved’ from representing an accused rapist in 1970s?

July 17, 2014

In audio recordings from the 1980s, Hillary Clinton said she took on a 1975 rape case as a "favor." Does that contradict her latest comments on the case that she "asked to be relieved of that responsibility"? We reviewed the history in search of an answer.

Fact-checking claims about the current immigration crisis

July 17, 2014

The influx of unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border is pushing border security officials to their limits and putting pressure on President Barack Obama and Congress to take some sort of action. PunditFact has been fact-checking the claims of pundits who have been scrambling both to provide context for this surge of children and to assign blame.

Rush Limbaugh, Cokie Roberts, Fox News ‘banned’ in Canada: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

July 17, 2014

Rush Limbaugh says "not a single" Repubican senator voted to confirm U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, while Cokie Roberts edges ever closer to getting a Twitter account, all in today's PolitiFact Oregon Roundup.

Are Rick Perry, Rand Paul and Barack Obama on the same page on Iraq?

July 16, 2014

Perry and Paul have opposing views on whether America should intervene in other countries' conflicts, but their solutions for Iraq have similarities with each other -- and with President Barack Obama.

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