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Michele Bachmann’s comments on 9/11 and the Muslim Brotherhood

September 11, 2013

Bachmann's recent remarks on Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11 could leave a wrong impression with some listeners. So we set the record straight about who was responsible for the 2001 terror attacks.

PolitiFact New Jersey remembers solemn anniversary

September 11, 2013

The Truth-O-Meter has tested claims about population growth in lower Manhattan, congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, and whether the 9/11 hijackers had New Jersey driver's licenses.

Will Weatherford pokes back at the Truth-O-Meter

September 11, 2013

Florida's House speaker says he wants to try some 'PolitiFacting' of his own.

Will Weatherford weighs education and health care funding

September 10, 2013

The Florida State House speaker said, "As a society, we spend more money on people's health care in the last six or 12 months of their life than we spend in the first 18 years of their life educating them." We take a closer look at the data.

Fact-checking claims about military strikes against Syria

September 9, 2013

As President Obama makes his case to Congress for an authorization of force, we've looked at claims about chemical weapons, mass casualties, refugees and red lines.

Fact-checking claims about military strikes against Syria

September 9, 2013

As President Obama makes his case to Congress for an authorization of force, we've looked at claims about chemical weapons, mass casualties, refugees and red lines.

Checking Rick Scott’s latest tax claims

September 9, 2013

Florida's governor talked up his tax-cutting efforts to a conservative crowd in Orlando. How did his statements rate on the Truth-O-Meter?

State comptroller of Texas has never been a CPA

September 9, 2013

A candidate who is a CPA says the Texas state comptroller has never been one. Well, yeah.

Alan Grayson claims 45,000 people die a year because they lack health insurance

September 6, 2013

We explain the science -- and the skepticism -- of studies that pin down the number of deaths due to not having health insurance.

In Context: President Obama, Syria and the ‘red line’

September 5, 2013

Did Obama deny making comments about setting a "red line" on Syria?

What needs a fact-check on health care?

September 4, 2013

As a key part of Obamacare goes into effect on Oct. 1, we’re asking for your ideas and questions about what you’d like to read.

What the law and the past say about attacking Syria

September 3, 2013

As United Nations inspectors assess whether either side used chemical weapons in an attack that killed hundreds of people in Syria’s civil war, there is a heated debate in this country over President Barack Obama’s authority to use military force. PolitiFact revisits previous work about the legal and political framework regarding Syria.

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