Samantha Putterman | PolitiFact
Samantha Putterman is a fact-checker for PolitiFact based in Florida reporting on misinformation with a focus on abortion and public health.
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Experts say more robust data is necessary to better determine the link between gun storage and school shootings. But a few studies have shown that around half of these incidents are carried out with firearms that were considered unsecured.
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In a 12-minute address at Hillsborough Community College, Biden warned of "extreme" laws that restrict abortion access, and he blamed Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, for making those policies possible.
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A study by the Rand Corp., a nonpartisan research organization, found that, across all drugs, U.S. prices were 2.78 times higher than the prices in 33 OECD countries. The gap was even larger for brand-name drugs.
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Miami’s immigration court has a backlog of about 290,000 pending cases, according to February data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. This is more than any court in the country.
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Insolvency means that a company cannot pay its bills today. That’s not so for Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s state-backed insurer.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that President Joe Biden refuses to detain illegal migrants ignores detentions and deportations under Biden's administration and migrant releases under previous presidents, experts said.
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Miami-Dade County school officials are facing backlash over its so-called permission slip policy. But teaching African American history is required by state statute and Miami-Dade schools comply with that throughout the year, the district’s chief academic officer said.
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The special counsel, Robert Hur, found that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents but didn’t pursue criminal charges, saying the evidence did not establish Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that Biden would be sympathetic to a jury.
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Crime data in the United States is notoriously incomplete, but experts agreed that general trends from state and FBI data show people ages 18 to 20 — and in many datasets people in their early-to-mid 20s — are likelier to commit deadly shootings than other age groups.
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Harris’ statistic is close even when counting just the populations of states with abortion bans at six weeks or less. When adding in states that ban abortion after 12 or 15 weeks of pregnancy, the number of affected women grows to about 40%.
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DeSantis is presenting an alternative method of proposing U.S. Constitutional amendments that would let states call a convention if enough of them ask Congress.
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A Florida agency recently reported that, by two separate measures of employee counts, the state had the fewest state government employees per capita of the 50 states — a trend predating DeSantis' governship.