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Search results for "An 18-year-old US citizen with terminal colon cancer has been reunited with their parents"

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Fact-checks (25533)

Instagram posts stated on January 27, 2023 in an Instagram post:
"Doctors say colon cancer is on the rise due to toxins absorbed while cooking food (in) the microwave.”
By Jeff Cercone• February 1, 2023
Instagram posts stated on December 07, 2022 in a post:
Kirstie Alley faked her death.
By Ciara O'Rourke• December 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Herman Cain died of cancer, not COVID-19.
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 31, 2020
Instagram posts stated on June 12, 2021 in an Instagram post:
"Dandelion root is able to kill 98% of cancer cells within 48 hours."
By Gabrielle Settles• June 17, 2021
Instagram posts stated on July 21, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Kamala Harris “is not eligible to hold the office of president” because her parents were non-citizens.
By Jeff Cercone• July 22, 2024
Rebecca Kleefisch stated on October 13, 2010 in a campaign TV ad:
Says "Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care"
By Dave Umhoefer• October 17, 2010
Viral image stated on August 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Chadwick Boseman was poisoned and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 1, 2020
Rachel Maddow stated on June 21, 2018 in in a monologue:
"There isn't a system" for reuniting families separated under Trump’s zero tolerance border policy.
By John Kruzel• June 29, 2018
JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”
By Amy Sherman• September 4, 2024
Herman Cain stated on September 22, 2011 in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando:
"If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment."
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano• September 27, 2011
Lone Star First stated on September 28, 2010 in a TV ad:
Rick Perry thinks "injecting 11- and 12-year-old girls with a controversial drug (the HPV vaccine), without a parent's consent, is a good idea."
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 1, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee stated on December 18, 2015 in remarks inserted into the Congressional Record:
"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."
By Fauzeya Rahman• February 1, 2016
S.E. Cupp stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":
"There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship."
By Will Cabaniss• August 23, 2015
Bloggers stated on December 01, 2016 in an MRCTV post:
"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."
By Miriam Valverde• December 7, 2016
Ted Cruz stated on June 11, 2018 in an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas:
"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  
By W. Gardner Selby• June 18, 2018
Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2018 in a press conference:
"Let’s talk about the facts and where we are today. There are still nearly 2,600 children who are separated from their parents" due to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy.
By Chris Nichols• July 19, 2018
Donald Trump stated on January 09, 2018 in a Cabinet meeting:
Says "22 to 24 people" came into the United States due to family connection with suspect in the October 2017 New York City terror attack.
By Miriam Valverde• January 24, 2018
Barack Obama stated on September 09, 2009 in a speech to Congress:
Preventive care "saves money."
By Catharine Richert• September 10, 2009
Martha McSally stated on September 16, 2018 in a Fox News interview:
Says Rep. Kyrsten Sinema supported a bill that is "essentially encouraging child trafficking."
By Miriam Valverde• October 2, 2018
Bryan Steil stated on October 28, 2021 in Twitter:
Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.”
By Laura Schulte• November 12, 2021

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By Miriam Valverde• July 12, 2018

Joe Biden’s plan to reunify families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump

By Miriam Valverde• February 15, 2021

Fact-checking Donald Trump, Joe Biden in the final presidential debate

By PolitiFact Staff • October 23, 2020

Rubio ad claims he helped constituent's daughter get cancer-fighting drug before FDA approval

By Joshua Gillin• August 31, 2016

Did Gavin Newsom 'separate families and deport children' in San Francisco?

By Chris Nichols• July 12, 2018

Donald Trump's executive order ending his administration's separation of immigrant families

By Miriam Valverde• June 25, 2018

Donald Trump’s immigration promises: failures and achievements

By Miriam Valverde• July 27, 2020

Wacky spending, even under the sequester?

By Molly Moorhead• March 22, 2013

How viable is Donald Trump’s 2024 immigration plan?

By Marta Campabadal Graus, Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 21, 2023

RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here’s what parents need to know.

By Jackie Fortiér• December 2, 2025

In context: Joe Biden’s 2022 cancer remarks resurface with 2025 prostate cancer diagnosis

By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek• May 19, 2025

Fact-checking the new pro-Mitt Romney ad

By Willoughby Mariano• February 29, 2012

Mailbag: 'You folks have lost your direction'

By Bill Adair• September 4, 2009

Curing cancer: easy politics, difficult science

By Shefali Luthra• June 24, 2019

Is Chappelle-Nadal right when she says 'radioactive waste is killing our residents?'

By Tateanna McCaskill, Riley Newton• November 12, 2017

Is Ted Cruz eligible under the Constitution to become president?

By Tom Feran• May 9, 2013

Another look at Abraham Lincoln and the colonization of ex-slaves

By Louis Jacobson• July 9, 2015

The top claims about abortion, fact-checked

By Samantha Putterman• March 2, 2023

NIH helped fund research involving donated fetal tissue, but Fauci was not directly involved

By Madison Czopek• June 17, 2021

18 fact-checks of things that were wrong on the Internet

By Louis Jacobson• December 28, 2014