BND - USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after deployment

🗞️ Story file #198

USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after deployment

Oct 7, 3 PM ET to Oct 7, 6 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏4 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
11front 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 7, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Military.com
Oct 7, 5 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 3 PM to Oct 7, 6 PM ET (peak 11), 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. 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: “Changed the arc of history”

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Just the News (2 wordings): “Hegseth to greet USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego this week after months-long deployment” → “Hegseth presents crew of USS Abraham Lincoln with Presidential Unit Citation after long deployment”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Hegseth does two pushups and gives hero’s welcome to USS Abraham Lincoln crew: ‘Changed the arc of history’” → “Pete Hegseth does two pushups, gives hero’s welcome to USS Abraham Lincoln crew: ‘Changed the arc of history’”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Hegseth to Welcome USS Abraham Lincoln Back After Long Middle East Deployment” → “Defense Secretary Hegseth Delivers Remarks Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Watch live: Hegseth delivers remarks as USS Abraham Lincoln returns” → “Hegseth unveils Presidential Unit Citation to USS Abraham Lincoln crew after ...”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating