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RFK Jr. Defends Ouster of CDC Director by Distorting List of Public Health Achievements
Amid upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the firing of the agency’s director, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distorted the facts to falsely claim that the agency’s website lists abortion as one of the “10 greatest advances in medical science.”
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DCCC Serves up Spin for the Labor Day Cookout
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running digital ads on social media blaming House Republicans for "driving up the price of burgers." But that's misleading. The sizable rise in ground beef prices is tied to drought conditions in recent years, among other factors.
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Addressing Trump’s Claims About Ending Multiple Wars
Q: Did President Donald Trump solve seven wars in seven months?
A: Trump has claimed he “ended” six or seven wars since returning to the White House in January. Experts in international relations said the president has had a significant role in ending fighting in four conflicts, though officials in one country refute Trump’s claim. But some of the international disagreements Trump cites have not been wars, and some clashes have not ended, experts said.
FULL ANSWER
In recent months President Donald Trump has claimed on numerous occasions that his intervention has resulted in ending multiple wars around the world.
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D.C. Homicide-Free Streak Not First in ‘Years’
While signing executive orders at the White House on Aug. 25, President Donald Trump wrongly said that an 11-day span of no homicides in Washington, D.C., was the "first time that's taken place in years," a claim reiterated by other members of the administration who credited Trump's federal takeover of the district's law enforcement.
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Trump on EU and Japan Investments in the U.S.
In early August, President Donald Trump claimed that a trade deal he negotiated with the European Union in July came with hundreds of billions of dollars that the U.S. can use for “anything we want.” But that’s not how the terms were described in a joint statement with the EU on Aug. 21.
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