U.S. military strike kills five in eastern Pacific drug boat attack

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U.S. military strike kills five in eastern Pacific drug boat attack

Oct 28, 1 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

7outlets carried it
🫏2 · 1 · 3🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 28, 1 AM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
Oct 28, 6 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 1 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

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

Fox News (2 wordings): “US military kills five in eastern Pacific strike on suspected drug-trafficking vessel” → “Five killed as US military targets suspected drug boat in latest Pacific strike”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating