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CLAIM: ABC moderator Linsey Davis intervened in the debate to claim that no state allows abortion after birth. VERDICT: LACKS CONTEXT. Many Democratic states allow abortion until birth, and just “palliative” care in some cases. ABC News’ Linsey Davis decided to side openly with Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential debate on Tuesday night, repeating the mistake CNN’s Candy Crowley

Like clockwork, every several weeks, someone discovers a new document that, to their minds, “proves” that what the administration and the intelligence community have been saying about Benghazi is a bunch of lies. But time and again these documents don’t add up. They don’t show what the pundits think they show—and the Benghazi broadsides miss their mark anew. Here is a recent example: Earlier

Send five? send none? send one? With House Speaker John Boehner expected to announce the Republican members of the newly established Benghazi Select Committee today, House Democrats are fretting over a politically crucial call on whether to boycott the panel’s investigation or participate on some level. The turmoil among Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team who meet with rank

President Obama says the May 8 House hearing on Benghazi and subsequent reporting about it produced no new information. Thats largely the case, but the president misrepresented some facts at his May 13 press conference in dismissing the House investigation as a “political circus.