U.S. military spending on Iran war tops $47 billion

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U.S. military spending on Iran war tops $47 billion

Oct 28, 12 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏6 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions

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Oct 28, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
Oct 28, 12 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
Oct 28, 2 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 12 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

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✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump’s Iran War Costing Whopping $47 Billion, Pentagon Data Reveals” → “Trump’s Iran War Costing Whopping $47 Billion: Pentagon”

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating