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The Truth-O-Meter is coming to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio

By Aaron Sharockman October 20, 2015

PolitiFact and the E.W. Scripps Company are partnering to provide local fact-checking in four key 2016 battleground states.

Mailbag: ‘Be real journalists!’

By Louis Jacobson October 20, 2015

During late summer and early fall, we had a cornucopia of reader mail. Here's a sampling.

PunditFact checks the Oct. 18 Sunday news shows

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu October 18, 2015

We looked at claims by Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Fact checking the Oct. 18 Sunday news shows

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu October 18, 2015

We looked at claims by Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

UPDATED: Curious claims we heard at the Texas Tribune Festival

By W. Gardner Selby October 18, 2015

Texans say the darndest things--such as many college students don’t pay any college tuition.


That was one of a few ear-catching claims we heard from participants in the 2015 Texas Tribune Festival. Maybe you’ll spot something we should check.

PunditFact previews the Oct. 18 Sunday shows

October 16, 2015

Every Friday, PunditFact gives you the first look at guests on the Sunday news shows. On Sunday, we see if what they said is true. You can read how they fared here or weekly in the Daily Beast.

The weird and wacky Truth-O-Meters of late

By April Hunt October 16, 2015

National politics and claims from Georgia leaders have been keeping PolitiFact busy, but not so busy our scribes couldn't look into some stranger claims connected to the Peach State lately.
 

Looking for curious factual claims at Texas Tribune Festival

By W. Gardner Selby October 15, 2015

A band of student reporters will once again enable us to listen widely for factually curious claims during this week's Texas Tribune Festival.

 

What are you hearing?

 

 

Texas whups nation in poverty–for 50-plus years?

By W. Gardner Selby October 14, 2015

Texas activist Bee Moorhead wasn't celebratory.

 

Still, she did write recently: "Texas once again outstripped the national poverty rate" in 2014, "as we have done since at least 1959."

 

For real?

 

 

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