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Hobby Lobby blowback, Ted Cruz, National Right to Life: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

July 9, 2014

Hillary Clinton weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby decision, while Sen. Ted Cruz claims the president wants amnesty for border-crossers. Are they right? PolitiFact Oregon checked.

Ted Cruz: Barack Obama has been offering amnesty to illegal immigrants

July 9, 2014

Cruz says Obama has been offering amnesty to illegal immigrants.

Not so, we conclude, and a former president figures into the story.

Tracking a ‘zombie’ stat: PunditFact dissects an inaccurate statistic on women and poverty

July 8, 2014

Seventy percent of people in poverty around the world are women? It's often repeated, but it's not accurate. Our partners at PunditFact looked into the story of a statistic.

Mailbag: ‘PolitiFact is a hack for the fantasy of centrism’

July 7, 2014

PolitiFact readers weigh in on the Clintons' finances, school shootings and even who invented the airplane.

Wendy Davis says Abbott lost in court four times in a hurry

July 6, 2014

Davis told supportive Democrats that Abbott, a fellow lawyer, lost four times in court in a short spell. We explored some litigation limbo.

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Getting the facts straight about the Founding Fathers

July 3, 2014

Pundits and politicians get things wrong time and time again when they use the Founding Fathers to support their political views. In honor of the Fourth of July holiday, we review fact-checks from our archives and set the record straight.

Meet the ‘zombie stat’ that just won’t die

July 3, 2014

70 percent of the world's poor are not women. But the claim has lived on for almost 20 years, cited by everyone from Hillary Clinton to Carly Fiorina to a UN campaign featuring Nicole Kidman. Find out where the statistic came from and why it can't be killed in our special report.

David Alameel didn’t live in a colonia; he lived in La Colonia, he says

July 2, 2014

Until we checked, it looked like David Alameel lived at one time in an impoverished colonia.

Our June High Five

July 2, 2014

Two sharply different statements regarding the now-stalled investigation into whether there was illegal coordination among conservative groups and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign rose to the top of our most-clicked list for June. A statement by Rep. Paul Ryan on whether or not Medicare is growing broke also received lots of attention.

Could Supreme Court contraceptive ruling affect coverage of vaccines and blood transfusions?

July 2, 2014

In Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court said closely held corporations did not have to provide four types of contraceptives to employees. Could blood transfusions and immunizations see a similar fate? We review the evidence.

Fact-checking claims from the Hobby Lobby case

July 1, 2014

The Supreme Court's close ruling about Hobby Lobby and contraception has generated debate, so we're looking at a few factual claims surrounding the case. 

Introducing: Scorecards for the TV networks

July 1, 2014

We’re making it easier to see how a particular cable channel or network is performing on PunditFact’s Truth-O-Meter.

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