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FACT CHECK: GOP candidates throw out false facts on Iran

Republican presidential candidate Texas Rep. Ron Paul walks during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg

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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

U.S. Supreme Court John Dunbar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/john-dunbar

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Our youngest killers

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.

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Presidential candidates outspending 'Super' PACs

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

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FACT CHECK: Romney’s shaky job claims

Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg

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FACT CHECK: Mangled facts in Manchester

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...

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

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, at a news conference in New York. Michael Hudson http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/michael-hudson

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

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...

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

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...

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FactCheck.org's guide to the New Hampshire debates

Signs from various candidates are seen planted on a grass covered median in Manchester, N.H. FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg

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New consumer finance watchdog vows to regulate predatory lenders

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...

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Woman says GE-owned subprime lender deceived, defrauded her

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...

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Problems with battlefield smartphones

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...

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

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

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EPA hopes disclosure leads to greenhouse gas reductions

NRG Energy's W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station, in Thompsons, Texas.  Chris Hamby http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/chris-hamby

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

Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, in his Madison, Wis., office. Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar

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Haitian farmers undermined by food aid

A rice grower weeds his field in the Artibonit Valley. Jacob Kushner http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/jacob-kushner

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

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...

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FACT CHECK: New Hampshire debates, take 2

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...

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