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USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after extended deployment

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 40 81 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 8 Oct 00:18 UTC · USS Abraham Lincoln heads home after record stretch at sea 8 Oct 12:15 UTC · USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record stretch at sea 8 Oct 18:11 UTC · Hegseth awards USS Abraham Lincoln crew after record deployment 9 Oct 00:07 UTC · Trump rules out Iran strikes before November midterms as USS Lincoln returns 9 Oct 06:40 UTC · USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record deployment 9 Oct 12:08 UTC · USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record deployment 10 Oct 00:09 UTC · USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after extended deployment

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 6 HEADLINES

  1. 8 Oct, 00:18 UTC

    USS Abraham Lincoln heads home after record stretch at sea

  2. 8 Oct, 12:15 UTC

    USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record stretch at sea

  3. 8 Oct, 18:11 UTC

    Hegseth awards USS Abraham Lincoln crew after record deployment

  4. 9 Oct, 00:07 UTC

    Trump rules out Iran strikes before November midterms as USS Lincoln returns

  5. 9 Oct, 06:40 UTC

    USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record deployment

  6. 10 Oct, 00:09 UTC

    USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after extended deployment

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • days sea: 260 (1 from 7 Oct 19:32) → 300 (3 from 8 Oct 17:45) → 265 (2 from 8 Oct 20:30) → 321 (1 from 9 Oct 17:15)
  • consecutive days: 260 (1 from 7 Oct 19:32) → 250 (1 from 7 Oct 19:32) → 265 (2 from 8 Oct 23:44)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.