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The New York Times calls Suncor v. Boulder a "landmark"; National Review says it has "finally" reached "the right court"; a Hill op-ed says Congress should decide
The Supreme Court opened its term on Monday with Boulder's climate lawsuit against Suncor and Exxon Mobil. Every outlet we hold agrees the case is big. They disagree …
National Review says Boulder's climate case has 'finally' reached 'the right court'; The Times says billions in oil liability ride on it
The Supreme Court is taking up Boulder's state-law climate suit against oil companies. Four reports describe the case in three ways. One says the question is which court …
Reuters says court pressure pushed an Arab leader out of Israel's election; Arutz Sheva says the case was dropped after he withdrew
On 2 October Israel's Supreme Court let the Joint List, Ra'am and MK Ofer Cassif run for the 26th Knesset. Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh quit the race …
Supreme Court takes ICE bond case: four headlines say 'mandatory detention', Fox says 'mass', MSNBC says 'unprecedented'
The justices agreed on Thursday to decide whether the administration can hold immigrants without a bond hearing while their deportation cases run. The outlets agree on the grant. …
Jerusalem Post says 'all nine justices recommend' the Balad leader quit; Haaretz says the chief justice proposed it and the bench is 'inclined' to uphold his ban
Israel's Supreme Court heard appeals on 1 October against bans on Ra'am, the Joint List, Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and MK Ofer Cassif. Four reports describe the …
Mother Jones calls Missouri's blocked map a 'MAGA' gerrymander; the Post, NPR and The Hill call it GOP-backed
The Supreme Court has blocked Missouri's new congressional map, and the state will vote in November under its old one. All four reports we hold say so. They …
The Washington Examiner calls it 'a key election integrity win'; NPR says the system 'has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens'
On Friday the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let the administration run its overhauled SAVE citizenship check while the case goes on. Eight reports gave the system five …
Fox News: a map "rejected twice by Supreme Court" is ordered into use. SCOTUSblog: the court "refuses to become partisan"
Two reports on the same Missouri redistricting fight, published two hours apart on 22 September. One of them cannot agree with itself about which court ruled.
The Hill says the court "blocked" the mail-in voting overhaul; SCOTUSblog trails the administration's "next moves on mail-in voting"
The Supreme Court stopped the Trump administration's plan to overhaul voting by post, The Hill reported on 16 September. Neither report we hold quotes the order, names who …
Mail-ballot rule: The Hill says the court “upheld a judge’s block finding the plan unlawful”, Stateline says it “did not decide whether” it is lawful
The Supreme Court kept a Postal Service mail-ballot rule blocked until after Nov. 3. Only 2 of the 14 reports we hold say the court left open whether …
MSNBC says “lack of voter fraud proof”; the Examiner quotes the order — “No statute grants the Postal Service the power”
A second federal judge froze the mail-ballot rule late Sunday, 50 days before the midterms. Of the five reports we hold, one names the judge and one carries …
Washington Examiner says the court "reinstates" Missouri's old map; MSNBC says it "rejects Missouri Republicans again"
One unsigned Supreme Court order, nine reports, three verbs. Four say the court blocked a map, one says it put one back, and both are describing the same …
RTÉ says the Stormont review uncovered nothing. The Irish Times says nothing was sent to it.
The Northern Ireland Assembly's review of Jeffrey Donaldson's conduct ended with a null finding, and the three reports we hold write that null three ways: a search that …
RTÉ says a car. The Irish Times and TheJournal.ie say a jeep — under one byline.
Peter Mulcaire, two years old, was struck near his home in Abbeycourt, Rathkeale, Co Limerick on Saturday afternoon and died at University Hospital Limerick. The four reports we …
RTÉ says "allegations", Novara says "busted", the Morning Star says "scandal"
Channel 4 News broadcast a half-hour report on Reform UK's donations about 22 hours before Nigel Farage's conference speech, RTÉ says. Six reports we hold word the same …
Rzeczpospolita's headline detains two men. Wyborcza, quoting the police, counts one.
Police say they detained Roman Ż. in Silesia on Saturday afternoon and seized valuable watches and Zondacrypto papers. Both Polish papers we hold carry that, in the same …
Euractiv puts 80,000 across the Ceuta border in two days. El Mundo says thousands, ABC says invasion
Six reports describe the same two days at Ceuta's border with Morocco. One gives a figure — Euractiv's 80,000. Two say only thousands, three give nothing, and none …
Al-Monitor says the UN found a possible crime against humanity. An-Nahar says ethnic cleansing.
The UN human rights office says Israel forced more than 33,000 Palestinians out of three West Bank refugee camps and still bars their return. Two reports carry the …
Four outlets, one injunction, two names for the order it blocked
A federal judge in Maryland blocked Trump's new birthright citizenship order on Wednesday. The Washington Examiner headlines it as a ban on "birth tourism" and is the only …
Big Bend: both reports carry the pause, neither reports the other's measure of it
The Hill scopes the pause to two named projects and a date. Axios scopes it to roughly 600 miles and a restraining order, then leads on construction going …
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MSNBC
MSNBC
🇺🇸US ·
TV/radio · independent
What we have measured
Accuser not named The lede does not name the senator making the accusation ×1Actor named for the ban The White House is the subject of both verbs: it blocked journalists, then let CNN back in. ×1A first stated flat a never-before claim carried without a source attached ×1Asserted, not attributed absence of fraud evidence stated as fact ×1
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Rzeczpospolita
Rzeczpospolita
🇵🇱PL ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English
🇶🇦QA ·
TV/radio · state-funded international
What we have measured
Accusation attributed Cuba's charge is attributed to its foreign minister, not stated as fact ×1Actor named The headline names Israel as the actor and gives a count of three that includes a child. ×1Agency No actor is named for the detentions. The raids, not the soldiers, 'left' the town in lockdown ×1Agency Names Israel as the actor in the headline, in active voice ×1
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Middle East Eye
Middle East Eye
🇬🇧UK ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
How hard the claim is stated Its own body says the investigators did not attribute the network to the Emirati state — the qualification its headline drops. ×1How hard the claim is stated The body withdraws in one line the attribution its own headline makes ×1How deeply it is sourced Cites its own past reporting as the evidence for the claim in its own headline, and calls the evidence widespread in its own voice ×1How deeply it is sourced Offers its own past reporting as the evidence supporting the claim in its headline, inside the same sentence that carries the denial. ×1
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