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Bill Adair is the creator and editor of PolitiFact. He also serves as the Washington Bureau Chief for the Tampa Bay Times and as an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute. He has worked in Washington since 1997 and has covered Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, national politics and aviation safety. Adair is the author of "The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation," a behind-the-scenes account of how the National Transportation Safety Board solved one of the biggest mysteries in aviation. He is the winner of the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse. He lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife and three children.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Bill Adair
"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Says it’s "an old wives’ story" that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly.
"The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet."
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
Recent stories from Bill Adair
Fact-checking claims about the attacks in BenghaziThe deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Libya have fueled a war of words between Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama. We compare the rhetoric with the facts.
The article: PolitiFact expands to AustraliaThe Truth-O-Meter is now down under. The launch of PolitiFact Australia marks our first international venture and a big step for the global fact-checking movement.
PolitiFact expands to AustraliaThe Truth-O-Meter is now down under. The launch of PolitiFact Australia marks our first international venture and a big step for the global fact-checking movement.
Fact-checking President Obama's press conferencePresident Obama spoke with reporters on the 100-day mark for his second term. We checked the facts.
Special report: Examining the state of gun researchFirearms research has been a battleground for advocacy groups for nearly 20 years, complicating fact-checking and making basic data on guns and gun violence hard to come by. The scarcity of gun research, though, may be coming to an end.
Is the U.S. letting terrorists slip through its fingers?Is there a pattern of the U.S government looking into potential terrorists, finding nothing incriminating, and then discovering -- too late -- that they were terrorists after all?
Ruh-roh! PolitiFact New Jersey on the Colbert Report!Colbert says Chris Christie's falsehood about Scooby Doo could cripple his chances to become president.
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Top 10 fact-checks on gunsAs the U.S. Senate moves to take up gun legislation, we fact-check the most interesting and oft-repeated claims from both sides of the debate.
Claims about guns often miss the targetWe analyze our 130+ fact-checks about guns and find some interesting patterns and trends.
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