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How the coverage framed it

The bias spread here is exactly 1.5 points, sitting at the threshold of meaningful divergence, and the framing differences are modest but worth noting. Vox's headline — "America leaves Iraq, again" — is the most left-leaning entry, with the single word "again" doing significant rhetorical work: it gestures toward historical repetition and implies skepticism about whether this exit will prove durable or consequential. The AP's headline, "Trump hails the US military's exit from Iraq after 12-year mission against Islamic State," leans modestly right by centering Trump's celebratory reaction and framing the withdrawal as an achievement, with the verb "hails" lending a positive, triumphalist tone to his position. Where Vox foregrounds doubt through brevity and irony, AP foregrounds a political figure's endorsement of the event. Neither headline is starkly partisan, and the overall coverage is relatively restrained — the core facts of the exit are not disputed, only the emotional register surrounding them.