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Soldiers in face masks maintain a checkpoint in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Sunday. The Malaysian government issued a movement order to the public until March 31 to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption

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President Trump speaks with reporters at the White House on Tuesday. He told ABC News that he would be open to hearing information about rival presidential candidates from a foreign government. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: Foreign Interference And 'Opposition Research' Are Not The Same

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President Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption

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Cindy Falco di Corrado joins with others to show their support for Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump. A number of Republicans have raised concerns about the way Stone was arrested at his home on Jan. 25. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump appears on a monitor in the Press Briefing Room of the White House on Tuesday. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: Trump's Oval Office Pitch For A Border Wall

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President Trump's border wall prototypes are seen from Tijuana in Baja California state, Mexico, on Monday. Trump has said he may invoke emergency powers to build a border wall if Congress doesn't agree to his demand for funding. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump's wall prototypes are seen from behind the Mexico-US border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 12. With Congress unlikely to fund Trump's wall, Trump is floating other tactics. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: Mexico Isn't Paying For The Border Wall, Military Unlikely To Build It

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President Trump attends a signing ceremony for health care measures in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday, the same day USA Today published an opinion column on the topic by the president. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: Trump's False Claims On 'Medicare-For-All'

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Images of President Trump and former President Barack Obama are on television as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders apologized Tuesday for wildly misstating employment numbers for African-Americans under former President Barack Obama. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: White House Apologizes For False Claim About African-American Jobs

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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that other presidential administrations also used nondisclosure agreements. Employment lawyers say that's not the whole story. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

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Jeffrey Howard: Should A Culture Dedicated To Free Speech Limit Hate Speech?

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A U.S. Navy senior chief petty officer stands watch ahead of a ceremony inaugurating the U.S. anti-missile station Aegis Ashore Romania at Deveselu, Romania, in 2016. The station is part of NATO's anti-missile shield for Europe. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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FACT CHECK: Trump's Claims On NATO Spending

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Central American migrants traveling in the Migrant Via Crucis caravan walk to their legal counselling meeting in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, in April. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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