AP FACT CHECK: Bruised realities in GOP debate

Bruises were inflicted on the reality of life for Muslim women, the shape of education standards and the reasoning behind U.S. military and foreign policy.

The United States has yet to see a woman as president, many years after Muslim women achieved national leadership in other countries, most prominently Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto back in the late 1980s and in the 1990s.

Some Muslim societies are indeed repressive by Western standards, enforcing or pressing for norms such as clothing that covers all but their eyes or faces; bans on driving, voting and education; and restrictions on interacting with the other sex.

[...] in other Muslim countries, women wear Western clothes, graduate from universities, interact with men, work as Western women do, hold senior government posts and take part in competitive sports.

To be sure, the U.S.-citizen children and spouses of immigrants who are in the country illegally are entitled to federal benefits, including food stamps and housing programs.

Public hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care regardless of immigration status.

[...] children are also legally entitled to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.

[...] the federal government did encourage them, through its Race to the Top education grants that were given to states that adopted rigorous academic standards.

What the U.S. had in Cuba before President Barack Obama restored relations was an "interests section," a smaller office that is standard in countries with which the United States has no diplomatic relations.

TRUMP on U.S. military tactics against the Islamic State: "We're not knocking out the oil because they don't want to create environmental pollution up in the air."

U.S. military commanders say it would be a mistake to destroy an energy resource that could be preserved for whatever government emerges from the civil war.

The U.S. has conducted many airstrikes against key elements of that oil infrastructure, including oil collection facilities and distribution networks.

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