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On the campaign trail recently, Mitt Romney brought up an issue that sounded familiar to us: the question of whether "In God We Trust" has been removed from U.S. coins.

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On the campaign trail recently, Mitt Romney brought up an issue that sounded familiar to us: the question of whether "In God We Trust" has been removed from U.S. coins.

It's not a new claim, but now that it's emerged in the presidential campaign, we took a new look at its origins.

 

Mitt Romney said, "I will not take ‘God’ off our coins." But it turns out the phrase "In God We Trust" has been there all along.

In his speech accepting the vice presidential nomination, Paul Ryan blamed President Barack Obama for the failure of a presidentially appointed debt commission. But that ignored Ryan's own role.

"In the real world, an 8.8 percent reduction in after-tax income is a significant blow," said Daniel Mitchell, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.

In a new campaign ad, President Obama says millionaires will "pay a little more" under his tax plan. We crunch the numbers to see how much that would be.

We fact-check a claim from Americans for Tax Reform that Olympians are taxed 35 percent on their medals.

Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, released an ad that uses the trappings of the Olympics to attack Mitt Romney.

We offer readers another chance to vent about -- or praise -- our coverage of recent political statements.

A Democratic super PAC produced a snarky ad with Olympic imagery that charges Mitt Romney outsourced jobs and used offshore accounts for his personal finances. We've put two of the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

In the wake of the Aurora shootings, we fact-check some claims about gun violence in the United States.

The RNC and Mitt Romney say that over the past six months President Barack Obama had time for fundraisers and golf, but there were no meetings of his jobs council. We check the numbers and find they are on target.