Latest Stories By W. Gardner Selby

Austin voters -- who decide Saturday how to background-check drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft -- have been beset by dramatic claims.

Here’s our skinny on the facts around Proposition 1.

After the Texas senator lost to Donald Trump in the Indiana primary, Ted Cruz suspended his 2016 presidential campaign. We look at his Truth-O-Meter scorecard and a few of our notable fact-checks.

Fact-checking Donald Trump on Ted Cruz's father and Lee Harvey Oswald

Ted Cruz, a political unknown just a few years ago, is no longer running for president after losing Indiana's Republican presidential primary to Donald Trump.

Still, the Texas senator will always have the Truth-O-Meter.

See PolitiFact's recap of Cruz dropping his bid.

Ted Cruz says Carly Fiorina will be his running mate should he overtake Donald Trump to become the Republican presidential nominee.

That's Canadian-born, Texas-reared Cruz potentially bidding with Austin-born Fiorina...

Say you want to keep up with Ted Cruz on the Truth-O-Meter.

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Univision's Jorge Ramos made a dramatic point on NPR about the safety of journalists here versus Latin America.

Ramos also said 80 journalists had been killed in Mexico in the last decade.

HALF TRUE.

Say you want to keep up with Ted Cruz on the Truth-O-Meter.

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Texan Ted Cruz, reacting to the terrorist attacks in Brussels, says the U.S. needs to bear down on "Muslim neighborhoods."

That might be hard to launch.

Say you want to keep up with Ted Cruz on the Truth-O-Meter.

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READ THE LATEST on the race for president from Jonathan Tilove, chief political writer for the Austin American-Statesman, here.

Barack Obama, who gave an opening interview Friday to kick off South by Southwest Interactive , has about 10 months left in his presidency.

According to the PolitiFact Obameter, he's fully kept 45 percent of his campaign promises. Details ahead...

What did you hear that might merit a fact check?

President Barack Obama is set to give a public interview at Austin’s South by Southwest Interactive this Friday.

The same day, Obama doesn’t plan to attend Nancy Reagan’s California funeral.

A sitting president not going to the funeral of a first lady? Not unusual, we find.

Ted Cruz, who prevailed in the Texas Republican presidential primary, has a lengthy Truth-O-Meter record considering he's just a first-term senator.

Here's a way to see it all.

See the PolitiFact report cards for Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, John Kasich and Ben Carson.

See the PolitiFact report cards for Democratic aspirants Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

There's no debating this: The Republican and Democratic primaries in Texas and other southern states (is Minnesota a southern state?) take place Tuesday.

So get your Truth-O-Meter on!

For our latest Texas-oriented fact checks, scroll down. LIKE us and comment on our Facebook page. For a national view, click here.

A day after Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler acknowledged his error in quoting Marco Rubio on the Bible, he’s reportedly asked to move on.

Here’s a look at what Tyler admitted.