The GOP candidates face off in Orlando, with questions from Fox News and YouTube. We put their claims to the Truth-O-Meter.
The GOP candidates faced off in Orlando, with questions from Fox News and YouTube. We put them to the Truth-O-Meter.
And we'd already just completed a check about the Texas law permitting some illegal immigrants to get in-state college tuition.a
Mayor Bob Buckhorn looks at the $765.4 million Tampa budget and sees no tax increase, no layoffs and no gaping holes. The Buck-O-Meter looks at the budget and sees two Promises Kept.
Republican presidential candidates debate a third time in 22 days tonight.
We’ll watch for fresh claims, including jabs at front-running Texas Gov. Rick Perry, mindful that the last debates fed several fact checks.
Not usually, but it can happen. We review the president's recent comments on tax policy.
Rachel Maddow touts Social Security's track record in keeping senior citizens out of poverty. We found her applause is mostly deserved.
Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul let rip with a specific tabulation of U.S. military involvement in last week’s Republican presidential debate: "We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world."
He was mostly right.
Michele Bachmann said an HPV vaccine could cause mental retardation. Doctors say that's false.
We’re introducing the Bob-O-Meter, a service aimed at monitoring some 50 campaign promises by McDonnell. The Bob-O-Meter will report what progress, if any, has been made on each pledge and rate whether it’s been kept, broken, altered in a compromise, or in the works. Those ratings will be tallied on PolitiFactVirginia.com, creating an up-to-the-minute and evolving report card on McDonnell’s administration.
A group backing U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota for president says spending in Texas has doubled under Rick Perry. We found the methodology behind this conclusion flawed.
Congress hasn't yet taken up President Barack Obama's jobs bill, but that hasn't stopped supporters and critics from making claims about what the bill would do. We check three of the claims.
A pro-Bachmann group says government spending in Texas has doubled under Rick Perry. PolitiFact Texas checks the numbers and puts the claim to the Truth-O-Meter.