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How the coverage framed it

With a bias spread of just 1.5 points, coverage of this story was largely uniform, though one outlet stood apart from the rest. CBS News and Reuters anchored the center with straightforward factual framing — phrases like "won't change Tehran's position" and "readies for new regional war" conveyed threat and response without editorial coloring. The modest leftward outlier was the Boston Globe, whose headline shifted focus entirely away from Iran's military posture and onto domestic political fallout, framing the conflict as a liability for Republicans through language like "Thune scrambles to save his Senate majority" and "voters voice concern over the Iran war." This domesticated the story into an electoral narrative rather than a foreign-policy one. The slight rightward edge came from a Reuters headline using the lightly mocking "touts" to describe Netanyahu's invocation of Trump. Overall, the divergence reflects a difference in story angle more than ideological intensity.