Gun Treaty Truth
WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiators at the United Nations are working to put final touches on a treaty cracking down on the global, $60 billion business of illicit trading in small arms, a move aimed at...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished...
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Rumbling past the facts
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the rough-and-tumble of a town hall-style presidential debate, the facts took something of a beating Tuesday night.Mitt Romney wrongly claimed that it took 14 days for President...
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Sorting through a perfect storm of mangled facts
WASHINGTON (AP) — And now, to conclude, a few parting misstatements.Come Wednesday, or sometime later if the election result is still in the balance, only one man will be left standing and the loser's...
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Transparency Has Its Limits
President Barack Obama made a media splash four years ago when he became the first president to declare he would publicly release the names of people who came to visit the White House, whether for...
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Brennan, once stung by waterboarding, now opposes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick for CIA director, John Brennan, withdrew from consideration for the job in 2008 amid criticism over the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques...
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Stretching the State of the Union
In a State of the Union address heavy on economics and education, President Barack Obama and his Republican competition gave the country a healthy dose of selective math.Take, for instance, Obama's...
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FACT CHECK: Gun debate deals in moldy stats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the numbers being hurled around in the gun control debate passed their freshness date eons ago. Perhaps none is more prominent than the claim that 40 percent of gun sales take...
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Promise Check: Obama's promises on health care put to challenge
Health care was the defining political battle of President Barack Obama's first term, and — after the economy— it remains his most complicated policy challenge at home, central to his place in...
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Obamacare promise of price cut on hospital bills is in limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Huge list prices charged by hospitals are drawing increased attention, but a federal law meant to limit what the most financially vulnerable patients can be billed doesn't seem to be...
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