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Mayor warns of 1 million people “coming to town”

May 21, 2013

Lee Leffingwell said 1 million additional people are "coming to town." We took that to mean Austin.

Fact-checking Michele Bachmann on the IRS and the health care law

May 20, 2013

Bachmann's statements get a Mostly False, a False and a Pants on Fire!

Mailbag, Facebook edition: ‘Stick to the definition of investigation’

May 17, 2013

Readers sound off on our latest checks about discrimination protection for gay people, the attacks in Benghazi, court-martialing Christian soldiers, and categorizing injury by turkey.

Fact-checking House Speaker Will Weatherford

May 17, 2013

The Republican from Pasco County was everywhere during the legislative session. We checked out his talking points.

TV ad uses gun votes as ammunition

May 16, 2013

Marco Rubio's political action committee launches a TV ad defending Kelly Ayotte's votes on gun background checks. We check the accuracy.

Fact-checking claims about the attacks in Benghazi

May 15, 2013

The deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Libya have fueled a war of words between Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama. We compare the rhetoric with the facts.

UPDATED: Grading Texas claims by, and about, Barack Obama

May 15, 2013

The president’s one-day swing to the Austin area gave rise to fact checks of, and about, him.

Fact-checking claims about the attacks in Benghazi

May 14, 2013

The deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Libya have fueled a war of words between Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama. We compare the rhetoric with the facts.

Fact-checking more claims about the sequester

May 14, 2013

Broad-based cuts to the federal budget are starting to have an impact on states and cities. We look at our latest round of fact-checks on the cuts known as sequestration.

Fact-checking more claims about the sequester

May 13, 2013

Broad-based cuts to the federal budget are starting to have an impact on states and cities. We look at our latest round of fact-checks on the cuts known as sequestration.

The article: PolitiFact expands to Australia

May 13, 2013

The Truth-O-Meter is now down under. The launch of PolitiFact Australia marks our first international venture and a big step for the global fact-checking movement.

Mailbag: PolitiFact Texas’s pants are on fire

May 13, 2013

We blew it, readers say, in rating Pants on Fire a claim about science and greenhouse gas emissions.

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