President Donald Trump said he has “heard” varying numbers on the DACA population — from 650,000 to 3 million. In fact, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said there were 689,800 active DACA recipients as of Sept. 4, 2017. DACA, which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was instituted […]
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Freeman Didn’t Say ‘Lock Her Up’
Q: Did actor Morgan Freeman say that Hillary Clinton should be jailed? A: No. He has donated to Democrats and endorsed Clinton for president in 2016. FULL ANSWER Morgan Freeman endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. But, in October, a website called Your News Wire — which brews conspiracy […]
Cold Facts on the Globe’s Hottest Years
Sen. James Inhofe misleadingly claimed that the statistics behind the globe’s likely hottest years on record — 2014, 2015 and 2016 — were “meaningless” because the temperature increases were “well within the margin of error.” Taking into account the margins of error, there’s still a long-term warming trend. Inhofe, a […]
Bogus Black Lives Matter Stories Won’t Die
Q: Were a dozen or more women found dead in a freezer with “Black Lives Matter” carved in them? A: No. Versions of that false story have been circulating online for almost two years. FULL ANSWER Different versions of an internet hoax that originated almost two years ago are still […]
Manufacturing Jobs ‘Roaring Back’?
Vice President Mike Pence touted the latest jobs report as proof that “manufacturing is roaring back.” The previous administration made a similar claim, but experts then and now said it’s premature to declare a manufacturing renaissance. The economy added 196,000 manufacturing jobs last year — the most in any year […]
Cornyn’s ‘Generous’ Immigration Claim
Texas Sen. John Cornyn says the U.S. is “the most generous country in the world when it comes to legal immigration.” It’s true that the U.S. gives permanent legal status and citizenship to more immigrants than other industrialized nations, but it also has the third largest population in the world. […]
Iran, Aviation Safety, Missouri
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Video: Trump’s Airline Safety Claim
In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper examines President Donald Trump’s suggestion that his “very strict” policies on commercial aviation were responsible for “the best and safest year on record.” As we wrote, in the United States, there have been no deaths from U.S. commercial airline accidents since 2009. The […]
Response to Iranian Protests, Then and Now
Vice President Mike Pence falsely claimed that former President Barack Obama “repeatedly failed to express America’s solidarity with the Iranian protesters” in 2009. Republicans at the time criticized Obama for what they viewed as a slow response to the Iranian protests that followed the contested presidential election of June 12, […]
No Cash, No Corpses for Made-up Mayor
Q: Did a Democratic mayor in Missouri have a storage locker holding cash and dead bodies? A: No. The story is entirely made-up — the town it names doesn’t even exist. FULL ANSWER Missouri has more than 1,000 cities, towns and villages, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. None is […]