Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here are the facts

Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, is running for president on her business smarts. She led the company from 1999 to 2005, the first female head of a Fortune 50 firm — and controversies from her high-profile tenure resurfaced Wednesday at the Republican debate. --"Yes, we had to make tough choices," Fiorina said on the prime-time stage, "and in doing so, we saved 80,000 jobs, went on to grow to 160,000 jobs. And now Hewlett-Packard is almost 300,000 jobs. We went from lagging behind to leading in every product category and every market segment."

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Fact-Checking The Fact Checker On The Endangered Species Act

Factcheck.org — the website that bills itself as “a nonpartisan, nonprofit ‘consumer advocate’ for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics” — claims Senator Ted Cruz “misses [the] mark on endangered species.” Ironically, it’s factcheck.org that misses the mark. --Cruz’s apparently problematic statement consists of: “One of the worst things that can happen to a species is to be listed on the Endangered Species Act. If it gets listed it’s almost certain to become endangered.”

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