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Live fact-checks from Republican candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley’s CNN debate in Iowa By Ellen Hine • January 9, 2024 There’s a new COVID-19 variant and cases are ticking up. What do you need to know? By Julie Appleby • January 8, 2024 The FBI didn’t orchestrate Jan. 6, but poll shows the false belief has staying power By Madison Czopek • January 5, 2024 Texas governor suggests feds violated court order by snipping razor wire at border. Is it true? By Bayliss Wagner • January 4, 2024 Key facts about immigration data: What it can and can’t tell us about border policies By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 3, 2024 Vivek Ramaswamy says Iowa can’t use eminent domain to build CO2 pipelines. That remains to be seen. By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign of conspiracy theories: PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year By Madison Czopek • December 21, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued PolitiFact’s owner in 2020 over flu vaccine fact-check By Aaron Sharockman • December 21, 2023 Here is PolitiFact readers’ pick for 2023 Lie of the Year By Ellen Hine • December 21, 2023 Looking back at PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, 2009-2022 By PolitiFact Staff • December 21, 2023 PolitiFact’s 15 most popular social media fact-checks from 2023 By Matthew Crowley • December 21, 2023 Donald Trump’s rally spotlighted the Biden, Trump economies. We fact-checked the graphics By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2023 PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of politicians and pundits in 2023 By Samantha Putterman • December 20, 2023 Ve los reportes de PolitiFact en Español en estaciones de Telemundo en Florida By Marta Campabadal Graus • December 20, 2023 PolitiFact en Español: 5 cosas Ridículas y Falsas que verificamos en 2023 By Maria Briceño • December 20, 2023 ‘How is this not a Pants on Fire?’: What PolitiFact readers thought of recent fact-checks By Amy Sherman • December 20, 2023 Divisions in Cyprus amplify fact-checking challenges By Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023 Fact-checking 5 claims Trump made at New Hampshire rally By Grace Abels • December 17, 2023 With Biden impeachment probe now authorized, what’s next? By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2023 In context: What the White House has said about sending troops to fight Russia By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023