Latest Stories By Jon Greenberg

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Hillary Clinton's June 21 economy speech

Fact-checking Hillary Clinton’s economic speech about Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton gave a speech on economic policy and spent most of her time going after Donald Trump. She made dozens of claims. We got started on checking a quite a few, and we'll add more soon.

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World Refugee Day: Refugee claims and U.S. politics

Donald Trump has made a number of claims about refugees. To mark International Refugee Day, we've reviewed a few from his file, along with some about refugees and poverty, and which country is doing the most to help them.

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HIV in Africa: 6 million circumcisions and counting

For nearly a decade, the fight against AIDS has aimed to circumcise as many young adult men as possible in Africa. Critics still question whether it does any good. We bring in the epidemiologists.

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World Health Day: Who’s leading the charge on TB research?

With private drug companies backing away from infectious disease research, governments and foundations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rein in tuberculosis. The World Health Organization says $1.3 billion more each year is needed to get ahead of the world's second most lethal infectious disease.

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Fact-checking USAID chief on global poverty and education

In her first major policy speech, USAID administrator Gayle Smith listed a number of gains the world has seen in recent decades. We checked her stats, and while Smith did pretty well, she didn't get a perfect score every time.

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Trump and Trump U

Secret behind Trump University’s A rating: Doing nothing

Trump says Trump University really has an A rating, not a D-minus, from the Better Business Bureau. Now we know how the bad grade disappeared (and it wasn't by doing a better job).

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