Texas is among about a dozen states that barred same-sex marriages before the U.S. Supreme Court acted today. Texas voters defined marriage as between a man and a woman by going to the polls as we're recapping here...
READ ABOUT THE COURT'S RULING, AND TEXAS IMPLICATIONS, HERE.
Ted Cruz looks like he's got a gun pointed at him in a photo taken by the Associated Press in Iowa over the weekend--and the photo alone provoked concern in some circles, Politico said Sunday.
Conservative-oriented Breitbart.com asked readers to imagine the outcry if a Democrat had been depicted similarly.
The AP distributed several other photos of Cruz speaking. We're sharing them here...
A reader asked: Did comedian Andy Borowitz have his facts straight when he suggested Texas gun stores outnumber Texas abortion facilities more than 12,000 to 1?
Short answer: Borowitz made up his numbers. Remember, he’s a professional kidder.
Still, we hunted accurate figures.
Jeb! (Think of letters saved if everyone ran solely by their first name and an exclamation point).
And, in case you missed it, Donald Trump.
As speedily tracked by PolitiFact Florida and PolitiFact National, the field of Republicans aspiring presidential grew by those two last week. Here's your chance to see how each one has fared on the Truth-O-Meter.
SEE JEB BUSH'S TRUTH-O-METER REPORT CARD HERE. SEE DONALD TRUMP'S TRUTH-O-METER HISTORY HERE.
A West Texas sheriff declared the U.S. alone in not securing its border with the military.
Pants on Fire!
Ted Cruz won the month of May--for us.
Our check of his claim about the costs of tax compliance and how much the country spends on the military was our most-viewed story of the month.
Former Gov. Rick Perry, who just declared for president in an airplane hangar near Dallas, has an expansive PolitiFact record.
See Perry's full Truth-O-Meter record here.
See our Twitter rundown of the most-viewed Perry fact checks over the years. OR comment on Facebook.
Rick Perry, the former Texas governor expected to announce for president, has hammered the federal government for falling short of stopping illegal border crossings.
Meantime, Perry has misstated quite a bit about conditions on the Texas-Mexico border.
Count on Rick Perry, expected to announce his candidacy for president on Thursday, to mention job gains in Texas on his watch.
Here's our primer on employment changes in Perry's 14-year tenure as governor.
Gina Hinojosa joined others at the Capitol calling for billions in additional school spending.
Money is needed, the president of the Austin school district's board of trustees said, because district teachers are paid less than Texas peers near and far.
Texas legislation may be headed into law regarding the freedom of clergy to refuse to perform gay marriage ceremonies--but a proposal potentially penalizing elected officials, mentioned by Apple's Tim Cook, remains out of play.
Read up on the latest Texas House action here (and here and here and here). But about that penalty legislation...
Rick Perry, in Iowa, took note of a town's claim to being some kind of ice cream history.
Traitor!
We kid. But Perry's tweet got us to wondering how often we get to check claims tied to what we eat.