Factcheck.org's Lori Robertson takes a look at the claims made during the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Find out where fact-checkers found that candidates stretched the truth. In a sometimes nasty second presidential debate, there were again several calls by the candidates for fact-checkers to referee competing statements, which we are happy to oblige.

On November 7, former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo spoke at Penn Law about the uncertain future of globalization and international political economics. The event, titled “Revisiting the Ongoing Debate about Globalization,” was the 10th Annual Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law.

On November 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates addressed a packed audience at Irvine Auditorium as he spoke about writing, fame, race, and politics in America. The event, co-hosted by Penn Law and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Africana Studies, brought Coates to campus as part of the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Memorial Lecture series.

The third — and final — presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was held Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace. We found plenty of factual inaccuracies: Trump defended his recent claims about rampant voter fraud by citing a Pew Charitable Trust report that found millions of errors in voter registration rolls but didn’t allege any actual voting violations.

Eight years ago, a young man sat behind bars with nothing but a number two pencil in his hand and an idea in his head. Fast forward to today, and a towering portrait of his face hangs in an art gallery at the Truth to Power art exhibition in Philadelphia. Around the corner hang the works of Banksy and Hank Willis Thomas, but that’s not the most remarkable thing about the portrait.

In the wake of Wharton and College undergraduate Arthur Halim’s death, his father Amin Halim remembered his son as a kind-hearted, caring and dedicated individual. Arthur died on July 30 after battling a “long illness,” according to an email sent out to the Wharton community on Aug. 3 by Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf.

Penn approved a resolution to increase the total cost of attendance for undergraduates in 2016-2017 by 3.9 percent, administrators announced on Thursday. The total cost of attendance increased from $63,526 to $66,000 for the upcoming academic year. Concurrently, Penn’s student financial aid budget also increased 3.9 percent, from $208 million to $214 million.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price authored a letter voicing support for the University’s black student community on Friday. In the letter, which was distributed to black student leaders and posted on Gutmann’s webpage, Gutmann and Price proclaimed that “black lives matter.”. “Our nation has confronted far too many profoundly troubling incidents, including deaths in communities across the country, that highlight the continuing and pervasive challenges faced daily by Blacks in America,” the letter began.

As temperatures dropped to the low fifties, Hillary Clinton campaigned in front of a crowd of over 7,000 people at Penn Park Saturday night. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) arrived around 8:30 p.m. from Pittsburgh to speak in Philadelphia. With the city skyline glittering behind her, Clinton criticized key traits in her opponent, Republican nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump, and urged the crowd to vote on Nov. 8.

In a sometimes nasty second presidential debate, there were again several calls by the candidates for fact-checkers to referee competing statements, which we are happy to oblige. But even when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton weren’t calling out each other on the facts, we found many of their uncontested claims to be misleading or false.

The third — and final — presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was held Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace. We found plenty of factual inaccuracies: Trump defended his recent claims about rampant voter fraud by citing a Pew Charitable Trust report that found millions of errors in voter registration rolls but didn’t allege any actual voting violations.

Move over, Oprah. Taylor Swift is the new ultimate gift-giver. This holiday season, the 25-year-old pop star has been sending huge packages of early Christmas presents to fans. Since mid-November, 32 lucky Tumblr followers of Swift have received FedEx boxes in the mail from the starlet. The elated recipients have taken to social media, flooding Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr with images and videos of themselves unwrapping the gifts.