U.S. warns allies of possible Iran strikes after midterms

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U.S. warns allies of possible Iran strikes after midterms

Oct 28, 6 PM ET to Oct 29, 3 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏2 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
6people retold it online
7 of 9parts of a saga

👣 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, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
Oct 28, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 29, 5 AM ETretold online by 6 people
Oct 29, 8 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 6 PM to Oct 29, 3 PM 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“kinetic action”2
“Kinetic Action”1
“You'll see Iran in a couple of weeks”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Political Wire

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Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

Mediaite Karl Rove Predicts Trump Will Resume ‘Kinetic Action’ in Iran After Midterms Oct 28, 6 PM ET
Semafor Trump weighs post-midterms Iran operations Oct 29, 5 AM ET
News Nation US tells allies to prepare for possible Iran strikes after midterms Oct 29, 8 AM ET
The Hill Rove expecting Trump to resume ‘kinetic action’ against Iran after midterms Oct 29, 2 PM ET
Just the News U.S. warns allies of new combat operations in Iran following midterms: report Oct 28, 2 PM ET
The Washington Times U.S. warns allies to prepare for possible Iran strikes, retaliation after elections, AP sources say Oct 28, 8 PM ET
Washington Examiner Trump hints at post-midterm strikes on Iran: ‘You’ll see Iran in a couple of weeks’ Oct 27, 11 PM ET
New York Post Trump warns Gulf allies to prepare for fresh blitz on Iran after midterm elections: report Oct 28, 10 AM ET
The Daily Caller Trump Eyes New Iran Blitz After Midterm Elections Oct 28, 1 PM ET
The National Desk Trump signals possible end to Iran war as US reportedly prepares for post election strikes Oct 28, 5 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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🐘 Fox News 5 min

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Confidently wrong 🧶 online
“Donald Trump says the war with Iran will end when he wants it to end.”
🧩 Short-term war miscalculation 🧶 online
“Donald Trump says the war with Iran will end when he wants it to end.”