Tuberville says his father was a tank commander and won five Bronze stars. Nope. For nearly a decade, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has described the World War II exploits of his father, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., in a relatively consistent way — that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, that he participated in the D-Day landing and that he lied about his age to join the Army. News organizations have tended to accept Tuberville's version and either reprint or broadcast it. Yet an examination by The Fact Checker of Army histories, newspaper reports and other materials calls into question many of the claims put forth by Tuberville, who sits on both the Senate Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs committees and is now in a high-profile battle with the Biden administration over a Defense Department policy offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions. We didn't issue a Pinocchio rating, as family histories often include myths or stories that become exaggerated as they are handed down from generation to generation. But our article highlighted what elements of the senator's story raise questions or are inaccurate — and which ones appear to be correct. Please click the link to learn more. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Is Biden running a 'shell game' on the border? Ever since the southern border became "eerily quiet" after a policy shift by the Biden administration, Republicans have charged that officials are playing a "shell game" with the numbers. Sometimes GOP leaders suggest some numbers are not being released. So we decided to investigate. The claim that numbers are being hidden is incorrect. But the Biden administration has implemented policies that have the effect of dissuading many migrants from attempting to cross the southern border between ports of entry — where they will encounter Border Patrol officers. That means a widely watched number is going down. Instead, these migrants are arriving through ports of entry, which is a different metric. The number of reported encounters at ports of entry in the first nine months of the 2023 fiscal year rose to more than 276,000 — almost a 150 percent increase from the same time period in 2022. Whether that is a "shell game" is in the eye of the beholder. But that's no excuse for Biden critics to suggest that the numbers have not been properly released. To learn more, please click the link. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read fact checks on immigration-related claims | 
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