🗞️ Story file #1694
US Army soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of espionage related to Russia
Nov 10, 3 PM ET to Nov 10, 5 PM ET
- 24outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 7 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 24front pages at once, at its peak
- 11 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
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The Hill 
Just the News 
The Sun 
The Washington Times 
IJR 
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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.
- Nov 10, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 10, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Nov 10, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Nov 10, 5 PM ETpeak: on 24 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “espionage”1
- “SPY”1
- “spying for Russia”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
2 Drudge Report · Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (2 wordings): “Senior US soldier arrested by UK counter-terror police” → “US Army soldier suspected of spying for Russia arrested in UK”
- CNN (3 wordings): “Breaking News US Army soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of espionage related to Russia” → “Senior US Army soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of espionage related to Russia”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “U.S. Army soldier arrested in U.K. on suspicion of spying for Russia” → “Senior U.S. Army soldier arrested in U.K. on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “UK arrests US Army member suspected of helping Russia” → “US Army member arrested in UK for suspected 'espionage' for Russia”
- The Washington Post (2 wordings): “US soldier arrested in Britain on suspicion of espionage linked to Russia” → “U.S. Army officer arrested in U.K. on suspicion of trying to steal secrets for Russia”
📰 Every outlet's headline 24left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
U.S. Soldier Arrested In Britain On Suspicion Of Espionage Linked To Russia
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
UK counter-terrorism police arrest senior US soldier with alleged links to Russia
- CNN🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
Breaking News US Army soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of espionage related to Russia
- NBC News🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
U.S. Army soldier arrested in U.K. on suspicion of spying for Russia
- New York Times🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US Soldier Is Arrested in UK on Suspicion of Spying for Russia
- PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
U.S. soldier arrested in Britain accused of espionage linked to Russia
- The Independent🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
US soldier accused of espionage linked to Russia arrested by British terror police
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
US soldier arrested in Britain on suspicion of espionage linked to Russia
- USA Today🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US soldier arrested in England after allegedly spying for Russia
- BBC🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
Senior US soldier arrested by UK counter-terror police
- Bloomberg🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
UK Arrests US Army Soldier Over Russia Spying Allegations
- Financial Times🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET Senior US soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for Russia
- Forbes🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US Soldier Arrested For Suspected Spying For Russia, UK Says
- Newsweek🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
UK Police Arrest Senior US Army Soldier Over Suspected Russia Espionage
- Reuters🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
UK arrests US Army member suspected of helping Russia
- The Hill🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US soldier suspected of Russia-related espionage arrested in UK
- Just the News🕒 Nov 10, 5 PM ET
British police confirms arrest of US soldier on suspicion of working with Russian intelligence
- The Sun🕒 Nov 10, 3 PM ET
SOLDIER ‘SPY’ US soldier arrested in UK by counter-terror cops after ‘spying for Russia’
- The Washington Times🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
Senior U.S. Army soldier arrested in Britain accused of passing secrets to Russia
- IJR🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US Soldier Arrested in UK Over Russia-Related Espionage Allegations
- New York Post🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US Army soldier arrested in UK on Russian espionage charges
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
US Soldier Arrested in Britain Allegedly Spying for Russia
- The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET
JUST IN: British Counterterrorism Police Arrest US Soldier On Suspicion of Espionage Related to Russia
- The National Desk🕒 Nov 10, 5 PM ET
US soldier allegedly spied for Russia, arrested in UK by counter-terror police
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- leans left
- center
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📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 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
🎙️ 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
🕵️ 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.
U.S. ArmyRussiaU.S. soldierUK counter-terror police
🔎 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.