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🗞️ Story file #1526

Federal prosecutor resigns from DOJ amid 'grand conspiracy' probe

Nov 6, 11 AM ET to Nov 6, 1 PM ET

📰 read it at: Raw Story ABC News CBS News CNN NBC News New York Times Reuters The Hill Just the News The Washington Times Washington Examiner New York Post

👣 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 6, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
  2. Nov 6, 12 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 7 times in 10 (159 stories)

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 6, 11 AM to Nov 6, 1 PM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Nov 6, 11 AM12 PM1 PMJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Top prosecutor in office that carried out Trump's 'grand conspiracy' probe resigns from DOJABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: US attorney tasked with leading probe into Trump's foes resigns from DOJCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: DOJ official resigns amid questions about "grand conspiracy" probeCBS News, Nov 6, 1:02 PM ET: Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resignsNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Trump DOJ appointee who led ‘grand conspiracy’ probe of Trump foes resignsCNNCNNCNN, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Breaking News US attorney overseeing Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe into foes resignsCNN, Nov 6, 12:02 PM ET: Three Justice Department officials, including man behind Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe, resign since brutal midterm losses Jason Reding Quiñones, the senior federal prosecutor who led a sprawling investigation into President Donald Trump’s political foes, has resigned from the Justice Department.The HillThe HillThe Hill, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Top prosecutor in office that housed Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe ...New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Top federal prosecutor tapped for Russiagate ‘conspiracy’ probe quits DOJRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Another leader of Trump’s faltering ‘grand conspiracy’ probe suddenly quitsReutersReutersReuters, Nov 6, 12:02 PM ET: US prosecutor who oversaw probes into past Trump investigations resignsThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Nov 6, 12:02 PM ET: U.S. attorney heading probe into Trump's foes resigns from DOJNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Nov 6, 12:02 PM ET: U.S. Attorney Who Oversaw Centerpiece of Trump’s Revenge Campaign ResignsWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Nov 6, 12:02 PM ET: Prosecutor overseeing Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation resigns
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

  1. “grand conspiracy”7

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

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

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • CBS News (2 wordings): “DOJ official resigns amid questions about "grand conspiracy" probe” → “Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resigns”
  • CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News US attorney overseeing Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe into foes resigns” → “Three Justice Department officials, including man behind Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe, resign since brutal midterm losses Jason Reding Quiñones, the senior federal prosecutor who led a sprawling investigation into President Donald Trump’s political foes, has resigned from the Justice Department.”
📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ On the shows

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

  1. 🫏 MeidasTouch 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ 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.

🧶 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

Donald TrumpU.S. AttorneyGrand Conspiracy Probe

🔎 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.