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What job could be next for the Democratic presidential candidates?

August 20, 2019

Running for president isn’t easy. And it’s especially tricky if you have to decide in the middle of the campaign whether it’s better to stay in or quit the race to run for another office.

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What’s behind the dubious claim that psychiatric drugs fuel mass shootings?

August 16, 2019

One question hangs over every mass shooting: How could a person plot and execute such horrific violence? In the search for answers, psychiatric drugs have emerged as a culprit.

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The death of Michael Brown, legal facts and Democratic messaging

August 14, 2019

Two Democratic presidential candidates recently observed the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. -- a case that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement as well as days of unrest locally.

The Fredo flap and the nuances of an insult

August 14, 2019

CNN host Chris Cuomo stirred up a tweetstorm when he exploded at a man who called him Fredo. Cuomo called it slur on Italian Americans. Language has more twists than that would suggest.

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Explaining the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories linked to Trump, Clinton

August 13, 2019

The details of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide have yet to come into full view, but that did nothing to stem the tide of misinformation coursing through social media channels.

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There’s no evidence the Trump administration had a role in Jeffrey Epstein’s death

August 13, 2019

The full details of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide have yet to materialize, but one pro-labor Facebook group wasted no time linking the disgraced financier’s death to President Donald Trump.

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Would Florida proposal ban virtually all guns? Here’s what we know

August 12, 2019

Florida’s attorney general says ban on military-style weapons would cover far more guns than what proponents call assault weapons. Here’s what we learned about it.

There’s no evidence that the Clintons were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s death

August 12, 2019

As of now, there is no evidence to suggest foul play in Epstein’s death, much less that it was coordinated by a former president.

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Andrew Yang’s universal basic income proposal, explained

August 12, 2019

Andrew Yang says the next president needs to do almost the opposite of Donald Trump, and "the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math." Yang, a 44-year-old entrepreneur running for the Democratic nomination, also has a big idea that has become the central element of his campaign: giving every American $1,000 a month.

Fact-checking claims about the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton

August 9, 2019

In the days since the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, we’ve heard a lot from people seeking to shape the gun debate with their own theories, facts and figures.  With so much going on, it might be hard to keep all of it straight. We recapped our fact-checking of politicians, pundits and social media here.

Why do some people think mass shootings are staged every time?

August 8, 2019

False flag conspiracies have been spread after nearly every mass shooting in recent memory.

Tucker Carlson says white supremacy is a hoax. Here are 5 reasons why that’s wrong

August 7, 2019

Fox News personality Tucker Carlson claimed white supremacy is a hoax and "not a real problem in America." But that’s not what the evidence shows.

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