DEVELOPING · 18 SEP → 21 SEP 2026 · 4 EDITIONS · 3 OUTLETS

Trump administration begins construction on Texas’s Big Bend border wall

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

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

2026-09-19
Trump administration starts building border wall in Big Bend region of Texas
2026-09-20
Trump administration begins construction on Texas’s Big Bend border wall

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

Big Bend · 3 outlets
Border Protection · 3 outlets
$46 billion plan line · 2 outlets
12 miles barriers · 2 outlets
200 miles new · 2 outlets
Donald Trump · 2 outlets
El Paso · 2 outlets
Lake Amistad · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

Nothing new took hold after the first third.