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🗞️ Story file #680

Trump pauses U.S. sanctions on Russia

Oct 20, 6 AM ET to Oct 20, 9 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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. Oct 20, 6 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 20, 7 AM8 AM9 AM47leftrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 6 AM to Oct 20, 9 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · right · not rated
Oct 19, 12 PM6 PMOct 206 AMAPAPAP, Oct 17, 7:00 AM ET: Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on holdBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 17, 1:00 PM ET: Zelensky Says Trump's Move to Pause Russian Sanctions Will Encourage PutinSalonSalonSalon, Oct 17, 2:00 PM ET: Zelenskyy: Trump is letting Putin offHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 17, 5:00 PM ET: Zelenskyy Urges Support For New U.S. Sanctions On Russia Put On Hold By TrumpThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 17, 10:00 PM ET: RAISING ZEL Furious Zelensky accuses Trump of 'rewarding' Putin by lifting Russia sanctionsThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 18, 5:00 PM ET: Zelenskyy Warns That Trump Waiving Russian Sanctions Is ‘Strengthening Putin’s War’Raw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 19, 6:00 PM ET: Scrambling Trump blasts Zelensky after waiving Russia sanctions: ‘How does that help?’
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💬 quoted: “How does that help?” “rewarding” “Strengthening Putin's War”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

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🧶 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 Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump's Ukraine War Strategy

  1. Zelenskyy warns U.S. backing Russia would be a historic mistake

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  2. Russia attacks Ukraine's energy infrastructure again

    Oct 15, 5 AM ET

  3. Trump pauses U.S. sanctions on Russia (this story)

    Oct 20, 6 AM ET

  4. Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russian oil facilities

    Oct 18, 9 AM ET

  5. Trump waives Russia sanctions to keep peace talks alive

    Oct 16, 11 PM ET

  6. Trump criticizes Zelenskyy over Ukraine negotiations

    Oct 19, 5 AM ET

  7. Zelenskyy meets U.S. envoy amid Trump tensions

    Oct 20, 5 PM ET

  8. Putin proposes trilateral summit with Trump and Xi on Ukraine war

    Oct 19, 2 AM ET

  9. US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in St. Petersburg for Ukraine peace talks

    Oct 20, 7 PM ET

  10. Russia releases American teacher Stephen Hubbard after Trump involvement

    Oct 21, 6 AM ET

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