Presumably to mollify their readership? But they also rewrote what the smaller nations said. They changed "could mean" the difference to "is" the difference. But even the original AP story is odd…comparing a life and death question in one situation with a 'what's realistic to do' question in another. It's almost like a non sequitur. Wish I could see more of the context.

Did the Arkansas paper pick up the whole story, or just the bit you show here? I couldn't find it on their site.

I did notice that even AP employed the 'he said she said' of most media stories these days. Which should've satisfied the Arkansas paper…except newspapers know that most readers don't read past the jump, so I guess they wanted to get their slant in there early, at the top.

In all likelihood, the Ark version will come true, but at this point it is speculation.

The AP version is absolutely true.

Some of their more liberal employees were John Robert Starr as Managing Editor and Tucker Carlson as a reporter.