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How the coverage framed it

The three headlines show a moderate framing spread of 3.0 points, driven primarily by Fox News diverging from the procedural neutrality of the other two outlets. The Washington Post and Star Tribune both treated the story as a straightforward legal process matter, using bureaucratic language like "seeks to keep under seal" and "opposes unsealing" to describe the Justice Department's actions without characterizing the implications for Omar herself. Fox News, by contrast, shifted the frame from institutional process to personal legal jeopardy, asking "What's next for Ilhan Omar?" and foregrounding "legal risks amid federal probes" — language that centers Omar as a subject under threat rather than describing a procedural development. The addition of a "former immigration judge" as an authority figure further amplifies the sense of legal peril. While the center-left outlets reported who was doing what and why, the right-leaning outlet reframed the same facts around anticipated consequences for the congresswoman specifically.