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Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, from which the president was evacuated; a suspect was charged and pleaded not guilty, and officials later said the president was the likely target. A separate armed man was killed entering the Mar-a-Lago perimeter, gunfire was exchanged near the White House and near the vice-president's motorcade, and the FBI reported foiling a drone-and-sniper plot against an event. A member of Congress was attacked at a town hall in Minneapolis, and a Supreme Court justice described heightened security and threats to the judiciary.
Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
Coverage centred on the security response and the prosecutions: agents returning fire and evacuating principals, a suspect identified and charged, a plot against a public event foiled, and officials thanking their details.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Coverage treating the incidents as a pattern rather than isolated events: repeated attempts against a president, a member of Congress attacked at a town hall, judges reporting threats and requiring heightened security, polling showing large numbers disbelieve official accounts, and warnings about the climate that produces this.
Russian, Chinese and Iranian state coverage using shootings and plots around American political events as evidence of internal disorder, and to question the stability of a state that presents itself as a model of governance to others.
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