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FACT CHECK: GOP candidates throw out false facts on Iran

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Rep. Ron Paul walks during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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FACT CHECK: President Obama's promises from '08 Iowa Caucus largely unkept

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Big bucks flood 2012 election — What the courts said and why we should care

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U.S. Supreme Court

John Dunbar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/john-dunbar

Our youngest killers

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One 16-year-old went looking for pot at a Brookline High School graduation party, then shot the guest of honor in the chest when he got a racial slur instead.

Presidential candidates outspending 'Super' PACs

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a caucus day rally at the Temple for Performing Arts, in Des Moines, Iowa.

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FACT CHECK: Romney’s shaky job claims

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Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate

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FACT CHECK: Mangled facts in Manchester

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, center, answers a question as former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, left, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, listen during a Republican presidential candidate debate in Concord, N.H.

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Fraud and folly: The untold story of General Electric’s subprime debacle

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Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, at a news conference in New York.

Michael Hudson http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/michael-hudson

Romney PAC gave trash-talking rival Santorum $10K donation in 2006

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at a campaign town hall in Northfield, N.H.

Aaron Mehta http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/aaron-mehta Josh Israel http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/josh-israel

Record-setting $736,000 paid for bluefin tuna poor indicator of scarcity

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Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., left, cuts a bluefin tuna in front of his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. The bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000, in the first auction of the year at the fish market. 

Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar

FactCheck.org's guide to the New Hampshire debates

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Signs from various candidates are seen planted on a grass covered median in Manchester, N.H.

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New consumer finance watchdog vows to regulate predatory lenders

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray after announcing his nomination to serve as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar

Woman says GE-owned subprime lender deceived, defrauded her

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Sheila Timmons has spent years trying to fix up the modest coal company-built house she bought in 1998. Now she's fighting General Electric to try and save the home.

Michael Hudson http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/michael-hudson

Problems with battlefield smartphones

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In mid-November, when the Army asked soldiers to test and appraise the high-tech communications devices that came from what’s left of the JTRS program, the answers they got were not exactly reassuring.After gathering in a dusty valley ringed by low mountains in New Mexico, a part of the White Sands Missile Range, the soldiers jumped from armored vehicles in a “village” composed of cheap plywood-and-concrete structures, including one with the word “mosque” sprayed on the side.Guided by robotic ai

Failure to communicate: Inside the army's doomed quest for the 'perfect' radio

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Sgt. Ryan Pike, left, and Staff Sgt. Altaf Swati erect a tactical satellite radio antenna while on patrol in Afak, Iraq, Dec. 28, 2008.

David Axe http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/david-axe

EPA hopes disclosure leads to greenhouse gas reductions

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NRG Energy's W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station, in Thompsons, Texas. 

Chris Hamby http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/chris-hamby

Six things you didn’t know about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

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Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, in his Madison, Wis., office.

Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar

Haitian farmers undermined by food aid

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A rice grower weeds his field in the Artibonit Valley.

Jacob Kushner http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/jacob-kushner

EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution

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PG&E's new Colusa Generating Station near Maxwell, Calif., is a 657-megawatt plant natural gas facility. The plant, which will provide power for nearly half a million residential customers, will not have to report its emissions to the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory.

Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar

FACT CHECK: New Hampshire debates, take 2

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Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas,, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (L-R) listen to a question from NBC Meet the Press moderator David Gregory during a Republican presidential candidate debate in Concord, N.H.

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