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Chase wrote, “Antifa is the culprit,” in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. She and other Republicans who have spread this myth have presented no evidence to back it up. There was an array of easily accessible information that refuted Chase’s claim at the time she made it. We rate Chase’s statement Pants on Fire.

After a day of rioting and tumult, after a woman was fatally shot inside the Capitol, after senators and representatives were driven from their chambers, Congress in the early hours of Jan. 7 affirmed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the duly elected president and vice president of the United States.

The 2020 presidential election cycle is almost over. After the voting, the counting, the legal challenges, and the casting of the electoral college votes in December, a joint session of Congress will formally count the electoral votes for president at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6. The final margin — 306 for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump — is already known.

COVID-19 has struck all continents except Antarctica. As of Dec. 21, there have 77 million cases across the globe, and 1.7 million deaths. Does that qualify as affecting “a significant portion of the population,” as the definition requires? Merriam-Webster has no doubt; it cites COVID-19 as an example of a pandemic.

We fact-checked Carter’s eye-popping claim that the U.S. imprisons more people than any nation in history and found that he’s wrong. Let’s take a look.

State Sen. Amanda Chase, who calls herself “Donald Trump in heels,” recently failed to prove her claim that Virginia’s fall elections were rigged.

In his bid to legalize pot in Virginia, Northam said, “People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”

Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, wrongly told a Richmond radio audience that critical Pennsylvania ballots that helped tip the election to Democrat Joe Biden were secretly counted.

When it comes to raising the minimum wage, the candidates in Virginia’s closely-watched 7th District congressional race have polar opposite views.

The final presidential debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump may have had fewer interruptions, but it wasn’t any more truthful. It was similar to the first debate, in that Trump’s comments needed more fact-checking than Biden’s.