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Monday, July 27, 2026 · 09:34 PM PT · Pacific local desk time

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  • AI-linked chip stocks seem to plunge as South Korea’s Kospi falls more than 7%
    • Oct 15, 2026, 1:04 PM PT: An earlier version of this story said The Guardian and Reuters both report that Taiwan’s TSMC fell about 2% even after record profits. Only Reuters (via Investing.com) ties the move to “record profits” and TSMC’s “macroeconomic uncertainties” line; The Guardian says TSMC fell 2% despite reporting its sixth straight quarter of profits. The body now credits each outlet for its own wording.
  • Bank of America seems to face over $1.2 billion in U.S. penalties over money-laundering failures
    • Oct 14, 2026, 1:06 AM PT: An earlier version of the Evidence status said CNN and CNBC both frame the $1.2 billion FinCEN penalty as the third-largest in FinCEN’s own history. CNN does; CNBC instead writes that FinCEN said the penalty ranks as “the third-largest in Treasury history,” matching the Treasury release. The Evidence status now credits each wording to its own outlet.
  • Bumble seems set to go private in a $1.3 billion all-cash sale to Ithaca Holdings
    • Oct 13, 2026, 5:00 PM PT: An earlier version of the key facts credited the Special Committee recommendation, the unanimous board approval, Whitney Wolfe Herd’s recusal and the Blackstone and Wolfe Herd written consent jointly to the release and the 8-K. The 8-K names the consent’s signers only as the “Principal Stockholders” and carries no recusal line, so this desk now credits the Blackstone and Wolfe Herd signers and her recusal to the release alone; the Special Committee recommendation, the unanimous approval and the stockholder written consent stay credited to the release and the 8-K.
  • Drones seem to sink one cargo ship and hit another off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast
    • Oct 13, 2026, 3:03 PM PT: An earlier version credited both Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha’s blame of Russia and Ursula von der Leyen’s condemnation to the BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters. Al Jazeera carries von der Leyen’s remarks but no Sybiha line, so this desk now credits Sybiha to the BBC and Reuters, and von der Leyen to the BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters. The earlier version also credited von der Leyen’s full “The Black Sea has become…” sentence to the BBC as well; the BBC quotes only the “another front of escalation” part, and the page now says so. The BBC ledger line no longer lists Reuters beside the byline (Reuters supplied the BBC article’s photo). A DW quote that bracketed “confirm[ed]” now quotes DW’s own words only.
  • Ethiopian federal forces seem to retake Mekelle as Tigray’s rulers pull out
    • Oct 8, 2026 PT: This desk added the Al Jazeera October 4 seizure URL and the Reuters primary to the ledger, attributed city control to named resident and militia sources rather than an unhedged “agree” line, cut the desk lines “The stakes look enormous” and “a clear nod,” cited Belay/Fana to Al Jazeera’s October 5 follow-up, and noted AP’s reports of disrupted communications, the airport, and looting.
    • Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PM PT: This desk separated two Berihu quotes that Al Jazeera ran at different points in its report, and noted in the ledger that the desk did not read the primary statements directly.
  • FBI seems to foil an ISIS-inspired Mall of America shooting plot in a sting
    • Oct 10, 2026, 1:24 PM PT: This desk fixed the punctuation in Rosen’s quote to match CBS News word for word and now credits CBS beside it. The mall-motive quote now credits the federal complaint alone, which carries that exact wording; CBS News prints a cleaned-up version.
  • French supermarket fridges seem hit by cyberattack that spoils food and sparks fires
    • Oct 12, 2026, 5:05 PM PT: An earlier version credited BFMTV’s forced-defrosting account (“managed to remotely trigger the forced defrosting…”) to France 24 and the BBC. The BBC copy carries the 26.5C aisle-display detail but lacks that forced-defrosting quote, so this desk now credits France 24 only for the defrosting claim and the BBC only for the 26.5C display.
  • Houthi missiles seem to hit Aden’s presidential palace as death-toll reports diverge
    • Oct 16, 2026, 1:02 AM PT: An earlier version of this story credited Al Jazeera with attributing the prime minister’s safety to Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani; Al Jazeera attributes that line to the government, while Reuters and the BBC credit Eryani. It also credited the BBC with citing the health minister for the five-killed, 16-injured toll; the BBC attributes that figure to officials and quotes health minister Qasim Buhaibeh only on who the casualties included, reporting his words as a statement rather than a remark to the BBC. The key facts, body, frames and Evidence status now credit each outlet for its own wording.
  • Russia seems to strike another Kyiv bridge as Germany’s Merz pledges more aid
    • Oct 8, 2026 PT: This desk now carries both company-deal counts (14 / €6.6bn and 16 / €6.5bn), cuts the judgment opener “the loudest possible weekend,” attributes the bridge-motive wording to Reuters, changes “his fourth” to the fourth visit by a German chancellor, adds Business Day and Kyiv Post to the ledger, and warns against AFP’s “350 billion” energy slip.
    • Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PM PT: This desk corrected several attributions. The train and delegation details now credit DW and dpa; Reuters and DW describe the €350 million as energy-sector repairs, while AFP, bne IntelliNews, and Kyiv Post mention generators. The interception rates now trace to Blyskavka via bne IntelliNews, two separate Merz quotes now appear apart, the ledger now cites AFP via CNA, and the Academy of Sciences toll now shows how outlets differ.
  • North Korea seems to fire ballistic missiles days after Seoul’s first hypersonic test
    • Oct 11, 2026, 11:03 PM PT: An earlier version credited DW with the detail that President Lee oversaw South Korea’s first hypersonic test-firing on Thursday; Al Jazeera carries that detail, while DW reports that Lee announced the rare test firing. This desk also removed an unsourced closing outlook line.
  • Riyadh’s King Khalid airport seems set to stay shut until Saturday after further Houthi strikes
    • Oct 12, 2026, 9:09 PM PT: An earlier version credited the EU aviation body EASA’s Friday Saudi-airspace warning to both Al Monitor (Reuters) and Dawn. The Dawn copy of the Reuters story carries only the FAA caution, so this desk now credits the EASA warning to Al Monitor (Reuters) only, and the FAA caution to Al Monitor and Dawn. The earlier version also said EASA cited missile and drone risk; Al Monitor says the warning cited missile and drone attacks.
  • Seven sailors missing after drones strike tankers off Romania, officials say
    • Oct 15, 2026, 6:58 PM PT: An earlier version of this story said The BBC and Al Jazeera (AFP, AP and Reuters) both report that Romania’s naval authority listed seven of 12 crew missing. Only the BBC gives the 12-crew total (seven of 12 crew members missing, in the BBC’s wording); Al Jazeera, citing Romania’s naval authority, says seven people went missing and five got rescued, without stating a 12-crew total. The key facts and Evidence status now credit each outlet for its own wording.
  • Maricarmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing revolt, dies at 87, tenants’ union says
    • Oct 10, 2026, 1:24 PM PT: This desk corrected four quotes. The tenants’ union statement now matches DW’s wording, “We are sorry to announce,” in place of “We regret to announce,” which no cited source carries. The union’s view of the ordeal now appears as paraphrase of DW’s report, without quotation marks. The desk dropped “historic agreement,” since no cited source uses that phrase. Sánchez’s condolences now run as two separate quotes, as the BBC printed them.
  • Spain’s Sánchez seems to call a November 29 snap election over housing
    • Oct 8, 2026 PT: This desk cut the judgment opener about a fight Sánchez “keeps losing,” downgraded the evidence badge to Developing until a named pollster appears, and kept the Ceuta “around 70,000” figure with a Guardian cite (Guardian wording paraphrased slightly for E-Prime). The 230% rent figure stays as the Guardian’s; the Franco framing stays as Al Jazeera’s; Junts stays as the Guardian’s right-wing Catalan pro-independence label.
    • Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PM PT: This desk corrected three attributions. The closing Sánchez pledge now quotes La Moncloa’s official English transcript; the earlier wording came from the Guardian’s live blog, not its main article, which the ledger cited. The poll line now matches the Guardian’s wording: the PP leads and may need Vox. The eviction details (the investment-fund purchase and roughly 70 years in the home) now carry Guardian credit only.
    • Oct 10, 2026, 1:12 PM PT: This desk fixed the protest chant to match the Guardian word for word: “Your profits, our misery,” with a comma, not a semicolon. The Guardian describes cries of “Shame” and that slogan from crowds outside Congress; the story now links that report beside the quote.
  • Tesla’s new Roadster seems to fly, flip and land in official demo videos
    • Oct 16, 2026, 10:54 AM PT: An earlier version of this story credited the McGregor, Texas, location of the event to both Reuters and The Verge, and credited the over-300-mile range to Tesla’s Lars Moravy. Reuters places the event at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, while The Verge places it in Waco, Texas; this desk now credits each location to its outlet. Reuters credits Moravy with the top-speed line but reports the over-300-mile range in a separate sentence without naming a speaker, so this desk now credits the range to Reuters alone.
  • Trump administration seems to freeze green-card filings for Microsoft, Adobe and IT outsourcers
    • Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PM PT: This desk corrected the attribution of the Nadella award. Reuters reports that Trump honored Nadella; the award’s name, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, comes from The National, not Reuters.
  • Trump seems to open the door to Russian diesel after a Putin call
    • Oct 9, 2026, 3:05 PM PT: This desk has now read the license on the Treasury website. OFAC numbers it General License No. 135, not “13” as an earlier version said, citing a Newsquawk headline. The text authorizes transactions tied to the sale, delivery, offloading, and importation — including into the United States — of diesel fuel of Russian Federation origin through 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time, April 7, 2027. It excludes any debit to U.S. bank accounts of Russia’s central bank, National Wealth Fund, or Ministry of Finance. Director Bradley T. Smith signed it on October 9.
  • Ukrainian ex-officer Serhii K. seems set for trial in Hamburg over Nord Stream pipeline blasts
    • Oct 13, 2026, 11:02 PM PT: An earlier version credited three details to pairs of outlets that do not each carry them. It credited the Serhii Kuznetsov court-document naming jointly to RFE/RL and the BBC; the BBC says court documents identify him as Serhii Kuznetsov, while RFE/RL says only that he has gone by Serhiy Kuznetsov elsewhere. It said RFE/RL and DW describe Germany as one of Ukraine’s closest European backers; the BBC, RFE/RL and DW each use their own wording, now quoted and credited separately. And it credited the Nord Stream 1 shut-off weeks before the blasts and the Berlin freeze of Nord Stream 2 jointly to the BBC and DW; the BBC alone carries those details, and DW’s own wording now sits separately.
  • U.S. consumer prices seem to rise to 3.7% in September as gasoline drives inflation higher
    • Oct 14, 2026, 2:54 PM PT: An earlier version of this story said CNBC and NBC News both report that economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a 0.6 percent monthly rise. CNBC carries both the 0.6 percent monthly and the 3.6 percent year-over-year expectations; NBC carries only the 3.6 percent headline forecast. The Evidence status also listed AFP among outlets agreeing on the energy and gasoline story; AFP carries the 3.7 percent headline but no CPI energy or gasoline detail. The key facts, body and Evidence status now credit each figure to its own outlet.

Log built from the correction notes on 19 live story pages (23 notes).