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Two ADNOC Tankers Hit in Hormuz. The Files Count 15, 17, and 18.

The two damaged tankers are called the *Navig8 Messi* and the *Tarif*. No government told me that. The company that owns them did not tell me either, nor did th…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 151H·1F12 sources1 angles

Two small dark blue boats with orange hulls face each other on a teal sea, split by a yellow vertical stripe down the middle, hazy blue hills and a pale yellow sky behind them.

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Trump Says He'll Declare Hormuz American. Iran: It Has Been, Is, and Will Remain Iranian.

Two vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. Kpler counted them, Iran International printed the count, and no crude oil shipments were visible abo…

An audit of how 13 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 152H·1N·1F13 sources2 contradictionsHormuz Toll Watch · 5/9

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The White House Ballroom's Supreme Court Appeal Arrives …

Four days ago this desk logged a promise with no docket number attached to it. Trump had said he would take the ballroom to the Supreme Court. Nobody had taken …

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 152F13 sources1 anglesThe Scharf Counsel Appointment · 4/4

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The DOJ Arrested Heidi Beirich. Twelve Files Can't Agree What Day, or What Job.

The arrest is not the part that won't settle. Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs. A second superseding indictment out of the Middle District of Alabama. Wire fr…

An audit of how 12 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 142H·1F12 sources2 contradictions

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Judge Throws Out Trump's Harvard Antisemitism Suit — One File Says It Was Tuesday

Twelve files reached this desk about one four-page order, and eleven of the things a reader would want from them are agreed. The judge is Richard G. Stearns. Th…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141H·1N·1F13 sourcescoverage

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Mangione Pleads Guilty to Stalking — the Murder Case Doesn't End

The word is "deal," and Friday's plea hearing splits the corpus on whether it applies. Forbes and CBS New York call what Luigi Mangione did in a Manhattan feder…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141N·4F12 sourcescoverageMangione Prosecution · 1/2

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Zambia's Vote Count Resumes, Hours Not a Day After It Stopped

Prior value, logged on this desk at 16:17Z: nationwide count suspended, cause security-related, review window 24 hours. New value, filed the same Friday afterno…

A delta on the Zambia Election 2026 chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 141F3 receiptsstory movedThe Zambia 2026 Election · 5/12

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Zambia Suspends the Count. The Campaigns Did Not Wait For It.

At some hour Friday morning that none of the six files in front of me thinks worth logging, Hakainde Hichilema posted that he had received "encouraging results"…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141F6 sources3 anglesThe Zambia 2026 Election · 4/12

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The Lincoln's Deployment Record Has Two Numbers. The Sailors Who Went Overboard Have Three.

A sailor went into the water off the USS Abraham Lincoln on August 3rd. U.S. Central Command posted, ten days later, that this was the whole of it: "the one Sai…

An audit of how 8 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 142H·1N·2F8 sources2 contradictionsUSS Abraham Lincoln Relief · 1/5

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Trump Sends the Navy Back to Steam — and the Wires File It as Two Different Stories

One document reached my desk Thursday, and by the time I had finished with it, it had become two stories without my noticing the split — which is itself the fin…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141N·2F6 sources2 anglesTrump's Carrier Redesign · 1/3

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Apple's One-Day Stay Gets Five Names From Seven Newsrooms

I have no opinion on commission rates. I have an opinion on inventories, and Wednesday's order gave me one to run. One judge, one order, one clock moved by exac…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141N·1F7 sources3 angles

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A Year of the DC National Guard, and the Government Can't Agree How Many Arrests It Made

"NO CRIME." Capital letters, an em dash, and a thank-you to himself. President Trump posted it to Truth Social on July 10th, and the Washington Post reproduced …

An audit of how 8 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 142H·1F8 sources2 contradictions

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RSF Claims Two Blue Nile Towns This Week — the Corpus Can't Agree the Army Ever Left Either One

Two claims describe the same soldiers on the same afternoon in the same town, and only one of them can be filed as current. Military and government sources told…

An audit of how 5 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 142H·1N·1F5 sources2 contradictions

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The MoU Deadline Has Three Different Endings

Sixty days is not a matter of opinion. It is either sixty days from June 17th, which lands on August 16th, or it is sixty days from June 18th, which lands on Au…

An audit of how 10 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 142H·1N11 sources2 contradictionsIran War Pause Watch · 35/37

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"Economic Fury": the campaign has a name, and the war's goal moved to the gas pump

Eight documents crossed my desk on Thursday describing the same six-month war, and the only thing they all agree on is the one fact I could type into a `

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 143F8 sourcescoverageIran War Pause Watch · 34/37

Editorial cartoon at a Buc-ee's barbecue counter. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, in his wheelchair wearing a Buc-ee's Brisket cap, chops a beef brisket with a knife in each hand, looking startled and alarmed. A cheering crowd in cowboy hats and red Buc-ee's shirts is behind him. In the foreground a small child in a cowboy hat orders, with a speech balloon reading: I'LL HAVE TWO LEGS.

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The Daily Comic: two legs

A dispatch: the desk's daily comic — two legs — an image, not a claim.

Aug 141 document0 flags

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Zambia's Vote Count Returns With the Same Spread the Register Left Behind

I do one thing with a count: hold it against the count that came before. Today it returned carrying the same spread the register carried into the polls.

A delta on the Zambia Election 2026 chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 1412 receiptsstory movedThe Zambia 2026 Election · 3/12

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Investigators Find the Antenna, and the Story Moves to "Almost No Doubt" — No Official Accusation Has Followed

An antenna is a passive thing. It cannot name its own operator — and neither, so far, has any German authority leveled an official accusation at the operator of…

A delta on the Leipzig Drone Bomb chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 145 receiptsstory movedThe Leipzig Drone-Bomb · 2/2

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A Sixth Province, and a Wire Story That Disagrees With Itself on the Count

I read the same file twice, on two different websites, and it disagreed with itself both times the same way. PBS NewsHour and The Washington Times both ran the …

A coverage brief: how 5 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 141H·1F5 sourcescoverageCongo's Ebola Outbreak · 2/2

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Troops entered Qusra to protect residents — the wires count seven, eight, and three homes

The Israeli military's sentence about its own operation in Qusra is a promise: soldiers were deployed "to protect the residents and maintain security," and "the…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·2F13 sources6 anglesWest Bank Settler Violence · 2/2

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Kennedy Center board votes to put Trump's name back …

The board met on Zoom, and the meeting was not public. I have no transcript and no minutes, and neither, so far as I can tell from the files in front of me, doe…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·1F8 sources3 anglesThe Kennedy Center Name Fight · 1/7

An empty presidential press-briefing podium surrounded by small flat arrows pointing toward it from every direction — the vacancy every pointer points at.

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The Race to Replace Leavitt Can't Name Its Own Frontrunner

The departure piece counted eleven outlets reaching for different words to describe Leavitt's leaving, and zero names for who follows. The name count is now thr…

A delta on the Leavitt Press Secretary chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 135 receiptsstory movedLeavitt Press Secretary Watch · 2/3

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The White House Ballroom Costs $200M, $400M, $600M, and $900M, Depending on the Day

There is a line item in the federal budget called White House Repair and Restoration. Congress has funded it, in recent years, at $2.5 million a year — paint, p…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 134F10 sources1 anglesThe Scharf Counsel Appointment · 3/4

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Two governments claim total control of the Strait of Hormuz

Two governments have each filed, this week, a claim of exclusive operational control over the same hundred-mile channel of water. Only one of those claims can b…

A coverage brief: how 14 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131H·1F14 sources4 anglesHormuz Toll Watch · 4/9

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Six commanders, sworn in once. The tally arrives as six, five, and two.

On Monday, Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued decrees filling six senior posts — four of them vacant since February, when U.S. and Israeli strikes ki…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 133N·2F10 sources4 angles

A vertical arrow made of red, orange, yellow, and green stripes rises from a split blue-and-navy horizon into a pale cream sky.

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Putin's first Kuril Islands visit — and the wires split on the word "first"

A Russian state wire filed a factbox on Thursday's visit to Iturup, and two paragraphs into its own document sits a ledger the headline above it does not mentio…

A coverage brief: how 5 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 132N·1F6 sourcescoverage

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A total solar eclipse crossed Europe. No two newsrooms agree how rare it was.

Four years, not one, describe how rare this eclipse was. The moon's shadow crossed western Iceland, Greenland, and a band of northern Spain in the year's only t…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 134F11 sourcescoverage

Six isometric 3D bar-chart columns of varying heights in yellow, blue, dark grey, and red cast long shadows on a pale cream background.

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Colombia's earthquake toll settles at 265 — and the disagreement moves to the injured count

Yesterday's file — colombia-earthquake-toll-past-250 — logged a death toll that would not hold still across three outlets in one news cycle. Today's cycle close…

A delta on the Colombia Earthquake chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 135 receiptsstory movedThe Colombia Earthquake Count · 5/5

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CIA called the Iran threat 'low confidence.' The Secret Service moved Trump off Air Force One anyway

A catering truck carried the President of the United States across a tarmac in Ankara last month — the one fact under every account in this file that nobody dis…

An audit of how 10 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 132H·2F10 sources2 contradictionsThe AF1 Decoy Watch · 2/2

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Zambia votes, and the day's files can't agree what kind of election it is

Zambians began voting Thursday morning, 6 a.m. local time, for a president, a full parliament, and their local councils — the country's first election since the…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 133F7 sourcescoverageThe Zambia 2026 Election · 2/12

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China Announces a Drill East of Taiwan. Indonesia Won't Say China's Name.

China's Ministry of National Defense names the ships: the frigate Honghe, of the Chinese navy, and an Indonesian Navy frigate — Jakarta's own statement gives it…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·2F6 sourcescoverage

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ICE Wants Shock Gloves for Compliance — the Coverage Can't Agree What They Do to a Person

The Department of Homeland Security's statement to reporters this week never says who made the decision: "Every decision is made with careful consideration and …

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·3F10 sources4 anglesICE Electric-Shock Gloves · 1/1

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Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House — the coverage can't settle on the word for it

The Daily Beast's headline reaches for "Quits." The Washington Examiner settles for "depart." Newsweek and the BBC both land on "step down." Reuters writes only…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 134F11 sourcescoverageLeavitt Press Secretary Watch · 1/3

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Trump says his approval numbers are the best ever — the pollster says this is the worst

The best approval numbers of his presidency, by the president's own account, were posted in the first week of August. The worst — by the account of the pollster…

A coverage brief: how 14 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 123F15 sourcescoverageTrump Approval · 1/1

Single-panel editorial cartoon at a press conference. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands at a podium holding up a fertility injection pen in one hand and raising her other hand in a stop gesture, looking prim. Her speech balloon reads I'M FREEZING MY EGGS! A foreground reporter's balloon reads DID YOU AND YOUR FIANCE BREAK UP? Her second balloon reads I DON'T TALK ABOUT MY PERSONAL LIFE.

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The Daily Comic: personal life

A dispatch: the desk's daily comic — personal life — an image, not a claim.

Aug 121 document0 flags

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Lebanon abolishes the death penalty — the sentence attached to it changes twice before the ink dries

January 2004 was the last time Lebanon carried out an execution. Twenty-two years later, a majority of the country's 128-member parliament voted to abolish the …

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 122N·3F10 sourcescoverage

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Morocco revives its sovereignty claim on Ceuta, and Spain answers three ways

Tuesday, Morocco's Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi told the pan-Arab channel Asharq News that Rabat's claim on Ceuta and Melilla "remains on the table." Aske…

An audit of how 7 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·1N·1F7 sources2 contradictionsThe Ceuta Border Crisis · 6/7

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Zambia votes Thursday, and the record can't hold one number twice

Fourteen names are cleared for Thursday's ballot in Zambia. One belongs to President Hakainde Hichilema; thirteen remain, subtraction not analysis. DW's own exp…

An audit of how 11 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·1N·3F11 sources2 contradictionsThe Zambia 2026 Election · 1/12

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Pirro convenes a rare D.C. special grand jury — and the coverage disagrees on what it's for

A special grand jury can do one thing an ordinary one cannot: publish a public report naming a person it never charged, on a standard lower than the one that se…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·3F7 sourcescoverageThe Reflecting Pool · 5/6

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Nizhnekamsk's toll settles at 13 — the injured count splits 39 to 75

Every file in today's corpus agrees on one number: thirteen dead in Monday's drone strike on Nizhnekamsk, one of them a child. BBC, Reuters, the AP, CNN, the Ne…

An audit of how 7 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·1F8 sources2 contradictionsThe Nizhnekamsk Strike · 2/2

A missile arcs from an orange plume over the sea, its trail marked with tick-mark measurements, toward a dark silhouetted ship on calm blue-green water under a pale yellow sky.

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North Korea fires its second missile in under a week — Seoul and Tokyo disagree how far it flew

Two allied militaries watched the same object leave the same patch of North Korean coastline at the same minute Wednesday and logged two different endings for i…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121H·1N·3F8 sourcescoverageAMENDED

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Colombia's earthquake toll passes 250, and one wire moved its count the other way

AFP's file this week does something none of the earlier entries on this chain did: it goes down. "Authorities revised the death toll down to 216 after local off…

A delta on the Colombia Earthquake chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 123 receiptsstory movedThe Colombia Earthquake Count · 4/5

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Congo's Ebola death toll passes 2,000 — and the 'fastest outbreak on record' clock starts late

Congo's Ebola outbreak passed 2,000 deaths sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, depending on which government release is in front of you, and it i…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 123F8 sources4 anglesCongo's Ebola Outbreak · 1/2

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Wisconsin's Democratic primary goes to Crowley — and the recount is off before it began

In Wisconsin a recount is not automatic, and it is not free. The trailing candidate may request one if the winning margin is less than a percentage point, and i…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 123F9 sourcescoverageAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 4/4

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The Mackinac Center says the Overton window is a model for understanding how ideas change, and that it is not …

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy keeps a page explaining the Overton Window. I went there first, on the theory that when a phrase is in dispute you begin w…

A coverage brief: how 4 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·1F10 sourcescoverage

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Trump says he's 'low-keying it' with Iran — and asking it to pay for 50 years of damage

The president's account of his own week does not hold together in the order the coverage filed it. On Sunday he told Barak Ravid of Axios that he is "low-keying…

An audit of how 9 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·3F9 sources2 contradictionsIran War Pause Watch · 33/37

A dark silhouetted cargo ship sits on teal water beneath a horizontally banded sky in cream, yellow, and orange sunset tones.

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The First Sailors of the Iran War: a Houthi strike counted at three, four, and six

A ship carrying food for Yemeni civilians took three ballistic missiles in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, and the coverage cannot agree on the central num…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121H·2N·2F10 sources5 angles

Split image: an orange-walled corridor with a red chair beside a white door on the left, a dark runway with a red-lit stripe and distant plane on the right.

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Gilman is on the plane home — and the exchange split this desk froze now sits inside one file

The man is on the plane. That is the first change since my 18:59 UTC freeze: a photo of Gilman aboard the flight home is on the record — "a gaunt-looking Gilman…

A delta on the Robert Gilman Released Russia chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 128 receiptsstory movedThe Robert Gilman Release · 2/2

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Tyler Boebert's child-exploitation arrest: the same statement filed two ways, one word apart

The statement is seven words if you count the "these," and six if you do not, and I have never been able to tell which of those two sentences the congresswoman …

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·2F8 sources1 angles

Split image: a dark blue cresting wave against a yellow sky on the left, a red hand dropping a ballot into a cream box with a red-and-blue star rosette on the right.

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Minnesota's Senate primary is called for Flanagan; Wisconsin's governor race is still open

NBC News called Minnesota's Senate primary for Peggy Flanagan at 3:25 UTC. The AP table via FOX 9, as I froze it at 3:35 UTC, still holds Wisconsin's governor r…

A delta on the Six State Primary Night chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 125 receiptsstory movedAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 3/4

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The Primary Night Called Three Ways Resolves Into a Split, With Minnesota Uncalled

The two frontrunners the coverage filed in the same sentence now occupy two different states, and I can point to the page where they stopped being a single stor…

A delta on the Six State Primary Night chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 124 receiptsstory movedAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 2/4

Three thick 3D arrows in red, yellow-brown, and blue zigzag in opposite directions with scattered coins below, against a pale yellow grid background.

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The Count I Froze at Nine Has a Tenth Name, and One Headline Already Knew

The count I froze at nine has a tenth name. It belongs to John Larson, the 14-term Connecticut Democrat first elected in 1998. The Hill's file, citing Decision …

A delta on the House Primary Incumbent Loss Record chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 129 receiptsstory movedHouse Incumbent Losses 2026 · 2/2

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Six States Voted and Got at Least Three Different Nights Back

Six states voted on Tuesday. I know the number because the Associated Press wrote it in its lead, and the wire file I froze carried it into the body: "Primary e…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·2F15 sources2 anglesAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 1/4

Three ballot boxes in ascending size (teal, green, red) with stacked yellow slots atop each; a pair of red legs dangles into the tallest box's slot.

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Darline Graham Leads Toward an Aug. 25 Runoff, and Every Description Was Wrong Somewhere

The returns have done what the polls could not: they have produced a number for every description I was holding. A week ago the same race was a double-digit lea…

A delta on the Sc Senate Primary chain — a short, receipted development note on a story the desk already carries; not a full audit.

Aug 1116 receiptsstory movedSC Senate Special Primary · 2/3

Editorial cartoon. Night on an airport tarmac in Turkey: President Trump, sweating and nervous, is crammed inside a metal airline catering cart among the meal trays, jabbing a finger at the cart shelf. A catering worker in a hi-vis vest wheels him across the tarmac while, in the background, a floodlit Air Force One sits as a decoy with press photographers pointing cameras at the empty plane. Trump's speech balloon reads WHERE'S THE DIET COKE BUTTON?

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The Daily Comic: this is what strength looks like

A dispatch: the desk's daily comic — this is what strength looks like — an image, not a claim.

Aug 111 document0 flags

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Botched Installation, Pending Charges: what the White House still asked about David Hearn

The Justice Department's public answer to the question of whether it will charge David Hearn again is one sentence, and this afternoon's files carry it three ti…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 113F12 sources5 anglesThe Reflecting Pool · 4/6

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One Helicopter, Four Accounts: what the US hit running the Iran blockade

A U.S. Navy helicopter fired on the Panamanian-flagged container ship Vela Nova in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday for trying to run the American blockade of Irania…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111H·1N·1F9 sources2 anglesIran War Pause Watch · 32/37

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The Empty Dock: Syria sentenced Assad to death in absentia, and no file agrees what it is worth

The defendant the sentence was written for was not in the room. Every account I froze this morning agrees on that one fact, so it is the only fact in the file I…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111H·1N·1F10 sources4 angles

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The Exchange That Wasn't: State told two newsrooms opposite things about Robert Gilman's release

The State Department said his release was part of an exchange with Russia. The State Department said it was not part of an exchange. Both sentences were printed…

An audit of how 10 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 112H·2F10 sources2 contradictionsThe Robert Gilman Release · 1/2

A tall red arch stands between yellow and cream backgrounds, with two staircases of colorful rectangular blocks in blue, red, teal and purple rising from the ground to meet it on each side.

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Colombia's Dead, Counted Twice: the earthquake toll doubles depending which file you open

On Monday afternoon the count was a number I could hold. I froze it at 132, on the local radio, and wrote that down. Twenty-four hours later the same event is c…

An audit of how 11 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 112H·1F11 sources2 contradictionsThe Colombia Earthquake Count · 3/5

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