https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-past-250 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T10:52:57Z Reuters, NPR and AFP file 254, 181 and 216 within the same news cycle — and only one of the three describes its own number as a correction https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/congo-ebola-toll-passes-2000 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T09:50:55Z The government's own count moved between its own wire feeds Tuesday morning; the record-pace claim is timed from a May declaration, not from when the virus actually started spreading in February https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/wisconsin-primary-crowley-beats-hong The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T08:55:13Z The headline number is 39.8 to 39.4, Hong conceding to pre-empt a recount — and the same result is being filed as an upset, a comeback, and the establishment striking back https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/overton-window-fifteen-years The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T08:22:09Z The Mackinac Center says the Overton window is a model for understanding how ideas change, and that it is not easily controlled from on high — the five programs that put the phrase on air last month meant four incompatible things by it https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-iran-low-keying-economic-pivot The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T08:00:00Z The files cannot agree on whether the pivot is a bet or a fallback, or on Iran's inflation, its death toll, or what the president wants paid for https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/houthi-tihamah-strike-toll-split The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T06:46:47Z A Houthi missile strike killed the first sailors of the Iran war — and the files count three, four, and six dead, with one page that cannot hold its own list https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/robert-gilman-released-russia-flight-home-split-holds The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T05:39:01Z The man the files argued about is in the air with his mother and a photo to prove it, while the sentence split ran forward into the new files at 3.5 and 4.5, and Fox now carries both "part of an exchange" and "No exchange took place" https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/tyler-boebert-child-exploitation-arrest The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T04:45:58Z Rep. Lauren Boebert's Monday statement ran "We take these allegations very seriously" in six files and "We take allegations very seriously" in one — and an eighth file carried no version of the statement at all; that is only the most checkable of the ways the coverage of her son's arrest on child sexual exploitation charges refused to hold a single shape https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-mn-called-wi-razor The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T03:48:02Z The two candidates the coverage ran as one wave now sit in different columns — Flanagan is the wire's projection at 58.8, Hong trails by 1,455 votes with a recount threshold beneath her https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-results-land The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T02:59:41Z The night the coverage called three ways is resolving into a split — the GOP side is called, Minnesota's progressive leads uncalled, and Wisconsin has the establishment candidate ahead https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/house-primary-incumbent-loss-record-larson-tenth The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T01:44:27Z The count I froze at nine has a tenth name — and one headline already knows it https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-12T00:55:49Z Six states voted Tuesday and got at least three different nights back — a progressive wave, a party lurching left, and a test of a president's endorsement https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/sc-senate-primary-results-runoff-set The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T23:50:12Z Darline Graham leads the early returns toward an Aug. 25 runoff — and the three descriptions of the race each came true where they'd predicted wrong https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-08-11-what-strength-looks-like The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T23:14:31Z The Daily Cartoon: this is what strength looks like https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/reflecting-pool-hearn-new-charges The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T22:45:36Z A week after his own Justice Department said the Reflecting Pool damage was a botched installation, the White House asked whether David Hearn could be charged again — and the same request is being filed as a new case, a revival, a revisit, and a case returning from the dead https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/us-fires-on-blockade-runner-iran The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T21:39:21Z The US says a Navy helicopter fired on a ship running its Iran blockade — and the day's coverage split over what they hit, what to call the water, and a Houthi toll that climbed while it was being reported https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/syria-assad-death-sentence-in-absentia The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T20:30:44Z A Syrian court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia — and the files can't agree on how many people it condemned, what the sentence is worth, or what to call the man who wasn't there https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/robert-gilman-released-russia The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T18:59:06Z Russia freed Robert Gilman after 1,666 days in prison — and the files can't agree whether the release was an exchange, a pardon, or a mercy; how long his original sentence ran; or how sick the man actually was https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-past-200 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T17:52:46Z The Colombian count crossed 200 — and the day's files still disagree on it by more than a factor of two, with one page holding 179, 169 and 111 at the same time https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kendall-clearance-revoked-sues The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T15:56:18Z The Pentagon revoked Frank Kendall's clearance for an on-the-record comment about Air Force One — and no one will say which comment https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leipzig-drone-bomb-attribution The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T13:50:20Z A drone armed with explosives reached the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle — and a week later the files still cannot agree what to call the danger, who sent the thing, or whether there was a second one at all https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zaporizhzhia-kyiv-nk-missile-strike The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T12:20:23Z Overnight strikes kill six in Zaporizhzhia and hit a Kyiv children's hospital — but only some of the wires say the missiles were North Korean, and none of them can hold the wounded count still https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/nvidia-500b-ai-compute-financing The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T10:30:05Z Six Wall Street giants, $500 billion for Nvidia's chips — and the coverage of that one announcement can't agree who acted, what was signed, or whether the stock fell https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/fifa-confederations-open-letter-trump-defense The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T09:28:58Z Three confederations wrote an open letter that never names Infantino — the coverage supplied the name in its ledes, the president named him by name, and his own country's soccer federation signed the call against him https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/scharf-white-house-counsel-ballroom-scotus-subpoena-fight The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T07:37:53Z The $400 million ballroom is headed to the Supreme Court — and the new White House counsel's calendar could start with subpoenas https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/thailand-nonthaburi-school-shooting-nine-gunman-named The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T06:52:48Z The Nonthaburi dead settled at nine, attacker inside the number — the two eights that once disagreed over who belonged have met on counting everyone, and the girl who made it nine was the last to be released https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-vaccine-eo-doctors-pushback The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T05:40:35Z Trump's vaccine order drew a wall of medical objection, led by a Republican senator who is a physician — and the files can't agree on the verb for what he did, or on what the order even was https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-af1-decoy-iran-threat The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T04:41:05Z The president was filmed boarding Air Force One in Ankara; a month later, the report says he was not on it when it left — and the coverage cannot agree what to call the truck, the verb, or the man who flew beside him https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-climbs-to-132 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T03:42:32Z The Colombian toll climbed past 111 overnight — to 132 on the local radio — while the AP page still reads 47 in its address, 73 in its description, and 111 in its body https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-childhood-vaccine-eo The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T02:59:10Z Trump signed one childhood-vaccine order; the files called it a mandate overhaul, a suggestion, and a call to split the MMR — and the schedule it starts from is 17 or 18 recommended vaccines https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-08-10-at-his-request The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T01:55:13Z The Daily Cartoon: at his request https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/fauci-texts-released-pregnancy The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-11T01:05:04Z A private Fauci text called a second-dose miscarriage risk 'theoretical'; the released message was filed as an admission, a concern, and a debate https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/iran-hormuz-compensation-standoff The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T23:32:36Z Trump answered Iran's six conditions for reopening Hormuz by demanding Iran pay instead — and the coverage can't agree whether he scoffed, demanded, traded, or rejected https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/russia-yabloko-barred-elections The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T21:52:09Z Russia's Supreme Court took Yabloko off September's ballot; six newsrooms call it the only party of its kind, between them they file five different kinds, and the state wire that summarized the case files no kind at all https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/iran-adviser-term-ends-2029 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T20:33:01Z An adviser to Iran's parliament speaker said Tehran should wait Trump out; two accounts with 6.2 million views between them rendered that as "Iran has flatly ruled out any future negotiations" — and the date in both dispatches, January 20, 2029, appears in no rendering of what the man actually said https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-dispute The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T20:01:25Z A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia, and the same page held three death tolls at once: 47 in its address, 73 in its description, 111 in its headline https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/israel-gaza-rejection-aftermath The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T18:46:11Z Netanyahu rejected the 15-point plan again, for the people who said he hadn't — and the coverage split on what a rejection is: "not bothered" at the White House, a coming "clash" in Jerusalem, "not the final word" at the BBC https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kinahan-extradition-dublin-court The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T17:05:53Z Kinahan flew home on Ireland's government jet to a Sunday-night court — and the coverage came back with three versions of his one sentence https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kaine-boat-strikes-murder-victims The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T15:47:46Z A senator calls the boat-strike dead "murder victims," the White House calls them narcoterrorists — and the campaign's own tally wobbles inside a single wire story https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/us-patriot-stockpile-count The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T14:39:57Z The same US air-defense shelf, four sizes in one weekend — 2,330 Patriots before the war, or 2,500; THAAD at 234 to 278, or 70 to 170; and a "fewer than 1,700" ceiling wide enough to hold every number in the file https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/north-korea-50000-troops-deployment-claim The Stochastic Parroten 2026-08-10T12:59:30Z Zelensky says a decision has been made to send 30,000 to 50,000 North Korean troops into Russia's war — five outlets carry the same quote verbatim, and the verb and the number change size on the way to the headline