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Has GM settled its debt with the government?

April 27, 2010

General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre has taken to the airwaves with a prime-time commercial claiming the automaker has repaid its loans from the government in full, with interest, five years early.

Fact-checking financial reform on ‘This Week’

April 25, 2010

Sens. Bob Corker and Sherrod Brown and White House adviser Austan Goolsbee discuss the financial reform bill. We put their claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

Mailbag: Modern patriots or ‘puff pastry’?

April 23, 2010

Readers give us their take on our latest Truth-O-Meter reports, fact-checking ABC News' This Week, and Stephen Colbert.

‘Required’ reading on health care

April 22, 2010

Does the new health care reform bill require people to buy insurance?

Fact-checking Bill Clinton on ABC’s ‘This Week’

April 18, 2010

We put the former president's statements through the Truth-O-Meter. 

PolitiFact audits three tax claims

April 16, 2010

As the deadline to file tax forms approached, politicians talked taxes and we checked their math.

Colbert: ‘Who are these PolitiFact guys?’

April 15, 2010

The Colbert Report does a segment on our fact-checking. And no, we're not Russian.

We bring truthiness to ‘The Colbert Report’

April 15, 2010

Stephen Colbert invites us on his show. We put Colbert and his guests to the Truth-O-Meter.

Hypothetically speaking

April 13, 2010

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she doesn't answer hypotheticals. We found a few exceptions.

Fact-checking Kyl and Gates from ABC’s ‘This Week’

April 11, 2010

We examine claims by Sen. Jon Kyl and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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