The defeat of Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican seen as a future Speaker of the House, stunned the political establishment. Pundits took to national TV to sort out how a better-funded, party-backed candidate could lose to little-known college professor Dave Brat.
PolitiFact journalists recently attended the Global Fact-checking Summit, held June 9-10 in London. Neil Brown, editor of the Tampa Bay Times -- the Florida newspaper that owns PolitiFact -- delivered the keynote address.
We look at two different claims, one on gun homicide rates and another on school shootings.
Ted Nugent’s gory claim about Obama gets a Pants on Fire.
Says he just sent his first text message
Texas Gov. Rick Perry tapped interest groups, not scientists, to research his case against President Barack Obama, according to an Austin American-Statesman news story. We earlier rated a claim in Perry's May letter to Obama as Half True.
We looked at comments about Eric Cantor's position on immigration and Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.
We looked at comments about Eric Cantor's history on immigration and Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.
Every Friday PunditFact gives you the first look at the 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.
This week, PolitiFact read Hillary Clinton’s new book, Hard Choices, cover-to-cover and put several passages to the Truth-O-Meter. Here’s our roundup of what the potential 2016 heavyweight had to say in her memoir and how accurate some of her claims were.
PunditFact couldn’t resist a juicy claim about Eric Cantor’s steakhouse spending. We can’t either.