Latest Stories By Lauren Carroll

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A look back at Lie of the Year

We’ve been naming the most significant falsehood of the year since 2009.

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Fact-checking the Dec. 6 Sunday shows

Several presidential candidates made their case for how they would try to take down ISIS and reduce mass killings before President Barack Obama's nationwide address about terrorism.

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PolitiFact fact-checks the Dec. 6 Sunday shows

As the president prepared a nationwide address, pundits and politicians batted around the pros and cons of gun control as a way of fighting terrorism within the United States.

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New information doesn’t fix Donald Trump’s 9/11 claim

Donald Trump isn't backing down on his wrong claim that he "watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed. Here, we address some new information that's come to light.

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Fact-checking Bill Maher on cancer drug price hikes

Bill Maher says what Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli did to jack up the cost of a cancer drug isn't unique for that industry. 

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