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First Lady Melania Trump and LSU announce $7.2 million scholarship fund for former foster care students

Nov 7, 5 PM ET to Nov 9, 5 AM ET

📰 read it at: AP The Washington Post USA Today The Epoch Times New York Post Newsmax OAN The Gateway Pundit The National Desk

👣 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.

  1. Nov 7, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: USA Today
  2. Nov 7, 6 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
  3. Nov 7, 6 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
  4. Nov 8, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

49SatSunMonpeak: 9 front pages, Sat 6 PMSat Nov 7, 9 AM ET: on 1 front pages (1 leans left)Sat Nov 7, 10 AM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 right)Sat Nov 7, 11 AM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 right)Sat Nov 7, 12 PM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 right)Sat Nov 7, 1 PM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 right)Sat Nov 7, 2 PM ET: on 3 front pages (1 leans left, 2 right)Sat Nov 7, 3 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 leans left, 2 right)Sat Nov 7, 4 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 leans left, 2 right)Sat Nov 7, 5 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 leans left, 3 right)Sat Nov 7, 6 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sat Nov 7, 7 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sat Nov 7, 8 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sat Nov 7, 9 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sat Nov 7, 10 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sat Nov 7, 11 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 12 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 1 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 2 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 3 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 4 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 5 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 6 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 7 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 8 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 9 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 10 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 11 AM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 12 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 1 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 2 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 3 PM ET: on 9 front pages (3 leans left, 5 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 4 PM ET: on 8 front pages (3 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 5 PM ET: on 8 front pages (3 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 6 PM ET: on 7 front pages (2 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 7 PM ET: on 7 front pages (2 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 8 PM ET: on 7 front pages (2 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 9 PM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 10 PM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Sun Nov 8, 11 PM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 12 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 1 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 2 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 3 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 4 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 5 AM ET: on 6 front pages (1 leans left, 4 right, 1 leans right)
Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:leans leftleans rightright. First: The Washington Post, Sat 9:01 AM ET.
Nov 7, 12 PMNov 812 PMNov 9The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Nov 7, 9:01 AM ET: Melania Trump and LSU are set to announce a scholarship program for students who were in foster careNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Nov 7, 10:02 AM ET: First Lady, LSU Plan Foster Youth ScholarshipsThe National DeskThe National DeskThe National Desk, Nov 7, 2:02 PM ET: First Lady Melania Trump, LSU establish $7.2M foster care scholarship endowmentAPAPAP, Nov 7, 3:01 PM ET: Melania Trump and LSU announce a scholarship program for students who were in foster careAP, Nov 7, 6:02 PM ET: Melania Trump and LSU announce $7.2M to endow scholarships for former foster care studentsAP, Nov 8, 12:02 AM ET: Melania Trump and LSU announce $7.2 million to endow scholarships for former foster care studentsNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 7, 5:02 PM ET: Melania Trump announces multi-million dollar LSU scholarship for former foster care kidsNew York Post, Nov 7, 6:02 PM ET: Melania Trump garners cheers from LSU-Alabama fans as she brings $7.2M in scholarships for foster kidsNew York Post, Nov 7, 7:02 PM ET: Melania Trump cheered as she launches $7.2M in scholarships for foster kids, attends LSU-Bama gameUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Nov 7, 5:02 PM ET: Melania Trump launches LSU foster care scholarshipOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Nov 7, 6:02 PM ET: Melania Trump and LSU announce $7.2M endowment fund for Fostering the Future student scholarshipsThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Nov 7, 6:02 PM ET: First Lady Melania Trump Receives Thunderous Applause at LSU-Alabama Game as She Announces Fostering the Future Scholarships (VIDEO)The Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Nov 7, 6:02 PM ET: First Lady Melania Trump Announces $5 Million Scholarship Fund at LSU for Former Foster YouthThe Epoch Times, Nov 7, 11:02 PM ET: Melania Trump Announces $7.2 Million Scholarship Fund at LSU for Former Foster YouthThe Epoch Times, Nov 8, 10:03 AM ET: Melania Trump, LSU Announce $7.2 Million Scholarship Fund for Foster Youth📺 TVFox News, 4:40 PM ET: FLOTUS, LSU: $7.2M FOR FOSTER SCHOLARSHIPSMSNOW, 7:05 PM ET: for every child from birth through age 19📻 radioNPR News Now, Nov 8, 4:10 AM ET: story 2 of 6ABC News Update, Nov 7, 9:32 PM ET: story 6 of 6ABC News Update, Nov 7, 6:32 PM ET: story 3 of 3
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.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word

The Washington Post

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • AP (3 wordings): “Melania Trump and LSU announce a scholarship program for students who were in foster care” → “Melania Trump and LSU announce $7.2 million to endow scholarships for former foster care students”
  • New York Post (3 wordings): “Melania Trump announces multi-million dollar LSU scholarship for former foster care kids” → “Melania Trump cheered as she launches $7.2M in scholarships for foster kids, attends LSU-Bama game”
  • The Epoch Times (3 wordings): “First Lady Melania Trump Announces $5 Million Scholarship Fund at LSU for Former Foster Youth” → “Melania Trump, LSU Announce $7.2 Million Scholarship Fund for Foster Youth”
📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🐘 Fox News 21 s
  2. 🫏 MSNOW 9 s

📻 On the radio

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

  1. 🫏 ABC News Update 2× · best #3
  2. 🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #2

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Melania TrumpLSU

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

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