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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump's boasts about record-low unemployment rates for Blacks and Hispanics. Before the pandemic, Trump had a point. Mostly True. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

Donald Trump has said that he thinks windmills cause cancer. "Idiotic," said Sen. Chuck Grassley. "It’s ridiculous," said Sen. Joni Ernst. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump talks about a $100 trillion climate plan. He's talking about the Green New Deal, which Joe Biden isn't proposing. The number is also incorrect. False politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Joe Biden says we're 10 years away from a "point of no return" on climate. That's the message climate science experts make. Mostly True. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says people with immigration cases don't show up for court. Biden says that's wrong. Biden is right. Around 60-75% of non-detained migrants attended their immigration court proceedings politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump tries to pin the child separation policy on the Obama administration. That's False. Trump attempts to change the narrative about family separations. Obama did not pass down to Trump a policy to separate families. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

Raising the minimum wage does have an impact on the larger jobs picture but the specific matter. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Biden says the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration says Trump's tax deferral plan would bankrupt Social Security by 2023. Mostly False. The discussion was more hypothetical than tied to a specific plan. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Biden wants to stop fracking. That's not what Biden's position has been. False. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

Was the U.S. on the brink of war with North Korea before Trump? Donald Trump has said he thinks so, but the experts we talked to said no. politifact.com/article/2019/f…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says China is paying billions to farmers through tariffs. That's False. The tariffs imposed by Trump have been paid almost entirely by U.S. importers, who pass much of that on to consumers through price increases. politifact.com/factchecks/201…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Biden says the deficit with China is "up not down" under Donald Trump. That's Mostly False. The most inclusive measurement, for goods and services, shows that the U.S. trade deficit with China was smaller under Trump in 2019. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

Ask PolitiFact: Why did Hunter Biden leave the Navy? politifact.com/article/2020/o…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Joe got $3.5 million from the mayor of Moscow. The allegation is actually about Hunter Biden, and it's unproven. politifact.com/article/2020/s…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says we have the best testing in the world, which is why we have so many cases. That's False. The U.S. still has a high positivity rate. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says 99% of people recover. Based on identified cases, the CDC shows a cumulative case death rate of 4.5%. FALSE. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Joe Biden says 40 countries had acted to close their borders with China before the United States. Before, he said 45. HALF TRUE. Experts say Biden is wrong to say that the U.S. travel restriction was slow. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Biden called Trump's decision to close the border with China "xenophobic." MOSTLY FALSE. Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

There were 788 new COVID-19 deaths on Oct. 21, according to @USAFacts.