Corrections and right to reply

Correction to: Statement by Chris Stigall

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Commentator at the time of the statement; later 2026 Republican candidate for U.S. House in Missouri's 4th district

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Commentator at the time of the statement; later 2026 Republican candidate for U.S. House in Missouri's 6th district

The published statement identified Chris Stigall’s later congressional candidacy as Missouri’s 4th District. The Federal Election Commission identifies his 2026 House candidacy as Missouri’s 6th District. The person record already lists District 6; the statement capacity is the field needing correction.

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Correction to: Statement by UC Ethnic Studies Council

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The council criticizes Sures's response to the summit and calls for his resignation, placing the episode within its broader objections to his conduct.

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The council criticizes Sures for staying silent about Yousef's remarks and calls for his resignation, placing the episode within its broader objections to his conduct.

We described the council as criticizing Sures's response to the summit. The Daily Californian reports that the council criticized him for staying silent about Yousef's remarks, and quotes the council calling that silence "not an isolated concern." The article describes no response by Sures for the council to object to. The summary now says the criticism concerns his silence. The September 7 entry in the case timeline carried the same wording and has been corrected as well.

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Correction to: Statement by Carmen G. McLean

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The agent fired “for reasons that are completely unclear to me.”

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for reasons that are completely unclear to me.

We showed the words "The agent fired" inside Judge Carmen McLean's quotation. Those words are the reporter's framing, not hers. The quotation now shows only the phrase attributed to her.

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Correction to: Statement by Merawi Gerima

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It demonstrates that Homeland Security acted similarly to they did in Minneapolis with Renee Good, using the vehicle as an excuse to attempt to murder someone in cold blood. We demand charges. We want federal agents held accountable, as well as MPD and investigators. You cannot nearly take someone’s life in D.C. and simply return to work, continuing to patrol our streets.

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It shows in fact that Homeland Security was doing exactly what they did in Minneapolis with Renee Good, using the vehicle as a pretext to try and murder somebody in cold blood. We want charges. We want federal agents charged, we want MPD and investigators charged. You can't nearly murder someone in D.C. and get to go back to work, continue patrolling the streets of D.C.

We showed a reworded version of Merawi Gerima's remarks as his exact words. The quotation now matches the DC News Now report word for word, and the line describing his call for charges now uses his wording.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Bernadette Armand

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While MPD released only a brief segment of the officer’s body camera footage, it highlights what Mr. Brown’s legal team has maintained since the incident—he was nearly killed by his own government without justification.

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Though MPD only released a short clip of its officer's BWC footage, it underscores what attorneys for Mr. Brown asserted since the shooting—he was nearly killed by his own government for no reason.

We showed a reworded version of a joint statement from Phillip Brown's attorneys, E. Paige White and Bernadette Armand, as their exact words. The quotation now shows the statement as WUSA9 reported it. We added the syndicated copy of that report that carries the statement, because the current WUSA9 page no longer shows it.

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Correction to: Statement by E. Paige White

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While MPD released only a brief segment of the officer’s body camera footage, it highlights what Mr. Brown’s legal team has maintained since the incident—he was nearly killed by his own government without justification.

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Though MPD only released a short clip of its officer's BWC footage, it underscores what attorneys for Mr. Brown asserted since the shooting—he was nearly killed by his own government for no reason.

We showed a reworded version of a joint statement from Phillip Brown's attorneys, E. Paige White and Bernadette Armand, as their exact words. The quotation now shows the statement as WUSA9 reported it. We added the syndicated copy of that report that carries the statement, because the current WUSA9 page no longer shows it.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Joshua Orta

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He also told us unequivocally that Ruben did not hit anyone.

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just crawling as we were trying to turn around did not hit anyone This was crazy to me because we were only crawling.

We showed a remark by the Martinez family's attorney, Alex Stamm, as a quotation from Joshua Orta. Stamm made it while describing Orta's account. The quotation now shows the words the Associated Press attributes to Orta himself, taken from a draft affidavit, and the summary and role line now say the account comes from that draft affidavit rather than from statements to investigators and reporters.

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Correction to: Statement by J. Marc Wheat

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This statement quoted J. Marc Wheat and Davison Drumm as writing "sacred right to seize private property... a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as "wealth building" public policy," and its summary said they cited Cea Weaver's remarks about a government "sacred right to seize private property."

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This statement now quotes the sentence in which Wheat and Drumm write that Weaver has shown disdain for private property and "ESPECIALLY homeownership," which she claimed "is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy." Its summary now says they wrote that Weaver has said she would like to "seize private property."

We attributed the phrase "sacred right to seize private property" to the Washington Examiner op-ed by Wheat and Drumm in error. The op-ed does not contain that phrase, which appears in a separate Washington Examiner op-ed by George Landrith. The op-ed by Wheat and Drumm says Weaver would like to "seize private property" and describes her as claiming that homeownership "is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy."

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by David Kramer

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The remarks were broadly well received, but there is never context for targeting preschoolers.

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Kramer said El-Sayed's remarks were "well-received" "in the sense that people appreciated he was willing to come into that space and talk and that he's been willing to at least turn down some of the negative rhetoric." He said, "If you parse his words, he definitely talked about apologizing if people were offended and saying there's a time for context but still leaving open the ability to add context," and, "I don't think that there's ever context for targeting 100-plus preschoolers."

We presented a paraphrase as David Kramer's own words. The sentence we quoted did not appear in Jewish Insider's report. We replaced it with the words Jewish Insider printed as Kramer's.

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Correction to: Statement by Stefan Kornelius

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This statement was dated September 17, 2026.

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This statement is dated September 16, 2026.

We dated the remarks of German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius to September 17. The Politico Europe report we cite was published on September 16 and says he spoke at a press conference on Wednesday, which was September 16. We corrected the date of the statement and the publication date of the cited report. The quoted words and the classification are unchanged.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Channel 5

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Statement date: September 8, 2026.

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Statement date: September 7, 2026.

We dated this statement to the day Gizmodo reported it. Channel 5 posted it on X on September 7, 2026, so we corrected the statement date.

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Correction to: Statement by Trey Walsh

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Statement date: September 8, 2026.

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Statement date: September 7, 2026.

We dated this statement to the day Gizmodo reported it. Trey Walsh posted it on X on September 7, 2026, so we corrected the statement date.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by DonAlt

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"An utter embarrassment."

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"Man finally got a platform to speak his truth And he launches a fking memecoin Utter embarrassment, shit Talks Trump and yet when given the opportunity acts the same way"

We presented CoinDesk's paraphrase of DonAlt's post as his own words. We replaced the quotation with the wording of the post.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jordan Fish

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"Anyone can deploy a token on Base without Coinbase approving it." Statement date: September 8, 2026.

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"Base isn’t “launching the memecoin” / you don’t need CB permission or endorsement to launch a coin, there is no partnership or whatever ppl are implying AFAIK." Statement date: September 7, 2026.

We presented CoinDesk's paraphrase of Jordan Fish's post as his own words, and we dated the statement September 8, the date of CoinDesk's report, instead of the day of the post. Fish posted on X on September 7, 2026. We replaced the quotation with the wording of the post and corrected the statement date.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jami Taylor

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This statement's summary said Jami Taylor "called the HHS report 'a fishing expedition.'" Its quotation was "a fishing expedition."

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Taylor's exact words were "It kind of looks like a fishing expedition to me." The quotation and summary now carry her full sentence.

We cut Taylor's remark down to a short phrase and reported that she called the report a fishing expedition. She qualified it: she said it "kind of looks like" one "to me." We have restored the full sentence in the quotation and rewritten the summary to match.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Andrew Flores

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This statement quoted Andrew Flores as saying the HHS report's scales "were never validated... they just made them up," and described his remarks as comments to The Advocate.

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This statement now quotes Flores as saying, "These are not scales that have ever been validated. They just made them up on their own." He made the remarks in an interview with Erin in the Morning, which published them on August 28, 2026. The Advocate reported them on August 31.

We put a shortened and reworded version of Flores's remarks inside quotation marks, so the words we showed were not his exact words. We also said he was commenting to The Advocate, when he gave the interview to Erin in the Morning and The Advocate repeated it. We have restored his exact words, corrected the outlet, and dated the statement to August 28, when Erin in the Morning published it, rather than August 31.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Benjamin Netanyahu

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This entry quoted Netanyahu as saying "Mamdani should concern himself with the homeless epidemic, the affordability crisis and the floods on New York City's roads rather than illegally meddling," and its summary said he pointed to homelessness, affordability and infrastructure and to what he called illegal meddling.

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The entry now quotes Netanyahu's July 19 statement from the Prime Minister's Office: "Instead of backing Khan's criminal behaviour, Mr. Mamdani should focus on fixing the damage his policies have caused New York." Its summary says the statement told Mamdani to focus on fixing the damage his policies have caused New York and said he appears interested in diverting public attention from his follies.

We attributed a quotation about homelessness, affordability and floods on New York City's roads to Benjamin Netanyahu in error. The All Israel News article we cited reports that Brooklyn City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov said those words to the New York Post. Netanyahu's statement, as the article reports it, said Mamdani should focus on fixing the damage his policies have caused New York. We replaced the quotation and rewrote the summary, title and speaker description, and corrected the source excerpt, to match his statement.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jake Tapper

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This statement's quotation read: "Well, I mean, that does sound a bit racist, actually."

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The quotation now reads: "Well, I mean, that does sound a bit racist, Ashley."

We took Tapper's words from a Raw Story report, which ended his sentence with "actually." CNN's transcript of the September 11 broadcast has him ending it by addressing panelist Ashley Davis by name. We have replaced the quotation with the transcript's wording and cited the transcript.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jacob Frey

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Frey separately posted on social media that Minneapolis police would not enforce federal immigration law and that the department's focus was keeping residents safe.

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Frey also asked: "How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?"

The context for this statement said Frey separately posted on social media that Minneapolis police would not enforce federal immigration law. The PBS News article we cited does not report that. We removed the sentence and replaced it with a second question from Frey that PBS News prints directly after the quoted one.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jon Ossoff

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I unreservedly reject reckless and dangerous rhetoric suggesting that policy advocacy invites violence against the Jewish community or any community.

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Ossoff said through a spokesperson that he "unreservedly rejects reckless and dangerous rhetoric suggesting that policy advocacy invites violence against the Jewish community or any community."

We quoted this statement in the first person, as if Ossoff had spoken the words himself. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Forbes both report it in the third person, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says he gave it through a spokesperson. We changed the quotation to the reported wording and now say it came through a spokesperson.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Julian Payne

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Given the day after the second tranche of excerpts.

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Given on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on September 17, the same day the Daily Mail published the second tranche of excerpts.

We said Julian Payne spoke the day after the Daily Mail published the second set of excerpts from Charles Spencer's memoir. The Daily Mail published that set on Thursday, September 17, the day Payne spoke on Today, according to Vanity Fair and the Guardian. The date of the statement, September 17, and the quoted words are unchanged.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Grant Harrold

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Harrold spoke with co-hosts Katie Nicholl and Jo Elvin two days after the Daily Mail began serializing Spencer's memoir and the day after Buckingham Palace's initial statement. Harrold did not say he witnessed the January 1997 phone call itself; his account is based on his general experience working for Charles in the period afterward.

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Harrold spoke with co-hosts Katie Nicholl and Jo Elvin the day after the Daily Mail began serializing Spencer's memoir and Buckingham Palace issued its initial statement. Harrold did not say he witnessed the phone call Spencer describes; his account is based on his general experience working for Charles in the period afterward.

We said Grant Harrold spoke two days after the Daily Mail began serializing Charles Spencer's memoir. The first excerpt appeared on September 16 and Harrold spoke on September 17, one day later. We also dated the phone call Spencer describes to January 1997. Spencer places it in the days after Diana's death on August 31, 1997. We corrected both lines. The quoted words, the date of the statement and the classification are unchanged.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Joe Neguse

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Jebreal apologized for using the term while maintaining her political criticism of Jeffries and AIPAC.

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Jebreal had already apologized for using the term, while maintaining her political criticism of Jeffries and AIPAC.

We placed Rula Jebreal's apology after Rep. Joe Neguse's post. She posted the apology on X at 18:49 UTC on September 4, and Neguse posted at 00:05 UTC on September 5, which was the evening of September 4 in Eastern time. We corrected the note to put the apology first.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Congressional Black Caucus

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Other lawmakers issued separate condemnations, and Jebreal apologized for the wording.

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Jebreal had apologized on X earlier that day. Other lawmakers issued separate condemnations.

We described Rula Jebreal's apology as coming after the Congressional Black Caucus statement. She posted the apology on X at 18:49 UTC on September 4, and the Caucus posted its statement at 23:13 UTC the same day. We corrected the note to put the apology first.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Ayanna Pressley

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Jebreal apologised unconditionally for the term on September 5 while maintaining her criticism of Jeffries over AIPAC funding.

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Jebreal apologized unconditionally for the term on September 4 while maintaining her criticism of Jeffries over AIPAC funding.

We gave the wrong date for Rula Jebreal's apology. She posted it on X on Friday, September 4, and theGrio, the cited source, reports that date. The apology came before Rep. Ayanna Pressley's statement on September 5.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Joy-Ann Reid

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We dated this statement September 5, 2026. Our summary said Reid treated the remark as a serious mistake and suggested cultural disconnection as a possible explanation rather than deliberate racial hostility. We quoted her as saying "Sometimes even our friends can get it wrong. They can stumble over trying to make a point" followed by a dash and "maybe there's a cultural disconnection." We said Jebreal had apologized after several lawmakers and the Congressional Black Caucus condemned her wording.

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We now date this statement September 4, 2026. Our summary says that on her YouTube show Reid said that even friends can get it wrong and stumble when trying to make a point, and suggested a cultural disconnection could explain how Jebreal's point went awry. We quote her as saying "Sometimes even our friends can get it wrong. They can stumble over trying to make a point that maybe there's a cultural disconnection that causes that point to go askew and go awry." We now say Jebreal had posted an apology on X earlier that day, September 4.

We presented a composite as Joy-Ann Reid's exact words. The cited Blavity article quotes her only as far as "make a point" and separately quotes the two words "cultural disconnection". We joined those pieces with a dash and added wording that was not in that article. We also dated the remark September 5, when she made it on the Friday, September 4 episode of her show, and our summary described it as a serious mistake, which neither the broadcast nor Mediaite's report says. Finally, we said Jebreal's apology followed the condemnations from lawmakers and the Congressional Black Caucus; she posted it on X earlier on September 4, before the Caucus statement. We corrected these four points from the broadcast, Mediaite's transcription of it and the dated posts.

Correction to: Statement by Matt Shaheen

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Title: "Matt Shaheen denies the polling-site cuts were voter suppression"; before the quotation: "Shaheen commented while Tarrant County was considering a plan to use 92 fewer Election Day sites than in the 2022 midterms."; after the quotation: "County officials said the plan eliminated low-turnout sites while retaining more locations than state law required."

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Title: "Matt Shaheen denies that Texas polling-site reductions are meant to suppress the vote"; before the quotation: "The Associated Press report does not say when Shaheen made the remark or whether he was referring to Tarrant County. It appears after the report's description of a Tarrant County plan to use 92 fewer Election Day sites than in the 2022 midterms and a paragraph on the wider trend of Texas counties reducing polling locations."; after the quotation: "The report says Tarrant County officials describe the plan as saving resources by eliminating low-turnout sites, and note that voters would still have more than 200 locations where they could cast ballots."

We presented Matt Shaheen's remark as a response to Tarrant County's polling-site plan. The Associated Press report quotes him on polling site reductions in Texas without saying when he spoke or whether he meant Tarrant County. We also wrote that county officials kept more locations than state law required. The report does not say that. It says county officials note that voters would still have more than 200 locations.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jewish American Summit

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This statement displayed "Declined to comment." as a quotation from the Jewish American Summit organizers.

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This statement now displays the sentence in which San Diego Jewish World reports the refusal. The organizers' own words are not in the record.

We presented "Declined to comment." as if it were the organizers' reply. It was the reporter's description of their refusal, not their words. The San Diego Jewish World report does not quote the organizers. The entry now quotes the reporter's full sentence and attributes it to that report.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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This statement was attributed to Tricia McLaughlin, and its summary read: "McLaughlin said Brown deliberately drove at officers and that Bebber fired defensive shots out of fear for their safety."

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This statement is attributed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, through an unnamed spokesperson. Its summary now reads: "A DHS spokesperson said Brown deliberately drove at a Metropolitan Police Department officer and a Homeland Security Investigations agent, and that the agent fired defensive shots in fear for his life and the lives of others."

The cited Associated Press and Guardian reports attribute this statement to an unnamed Department of Homeland Security spokesperson or to DHS itself. Neither names Tricia McLaughlin, and the original Washington City Paper report also names no spokesperson. We have reattributed the statement to the department.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Ryan Garton

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Evanston Now reported that DHS said agents later determined the man was not the person they were seeking and had learned he was a U.S. citizen.

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Evanston Now reported that police said the agents later determined the man was not the person they were seeking and had learned he was a U.S. citizen.

We previously attributed to the Department of Homeland Security a statement that agents later determined the man was not the person they were seeking. Evanston Now attributes that statement to police. We corrected the attribution.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Donald Trump

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President Trump said the shooting, along with the earlier fatal shooting of Renee Good, 'should not have happened' while maintaining Pretti and Good 'were not angels.'

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Discussing the shooting and the earlier fatal shooting of Renee Good in an NBC News interview, President Trump said "he was not an angel and she was not an angel," but when asked whether that justified what happened to them, he answered "No. I don't" and said "it should've not happened."

An earlier version of this case summary, its timeline entry and President Trump's statement entry put paraphrases of his NBC News remarks in quotation marks, including "were not angels" and "should not have happened." We replaced them with his words as NBC News' transcript records them: "he was not an angel and she was not an angel" and "it should've not happened." The change does not alter the substance of what we reported.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Thomas Massie

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This statement was attributed to Rep. Shri Thanedar.

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This statement is attributed to Rep. Thomas Massie.

We attributed Rep. Thomas Massie's remarks to Kaitlan Collins on CNN's "The Source" to Rep. Shri Thanedar. The Hill's report identifies Massie as the speaker, and we have corrected the attribution.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Tim Walz

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Governor Tim Walz said the agent's recklessness cost Renée Good her life, rejecting DHS's characterization of the shooting as self-defense.

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Governor Tim Walz said he and others had been warning that the heightened ICE operations in the Twin Cities were a danger to public safety, and that the recklessness of those operations cost Renée Good her life. Earlier that day, he disputed ICE's account that the agent fired in self-defense.

An earlier version of this entry said Walz blamed Renée Good's death on the agent's recklessness. In the cited remarks, Walz was describing the recklessness of the heightened ICE operations in the Twin Cities, not the individual agent. We corrected the summary, title, context and label explanation, and clarified the matching line in the case overview.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Andreas Thom

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Sellke denied it -- a denial Thom argues was later shown misleading by OpenAI's own admission in the Buckmaster-Alpöge case -- saying this "deepens my concern about their commitment to academic standards."

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Thom calls that denial materially misleading in light of OpenAI's later statement in the Buckmaster-Alpöge case that it could not rule out that de-identified usage data helped improve its models. He also writes that Bubeck's acknowledged career-related remark to Buckmaster and his objection to including Alpöge in a proposed paper presenting OpenAI's proof "deepen my concern about their commitment to academic standards."

An earlier version of this entry said Sellke's denial led Thom to write that it "deepens" his concern about academic standards. In his post, Thom ties that concern to Bubeck's career-related remark to Buckmaster and to his objection to including Alpöge in the proposed paper. We corrected the summary and restored Thom's exact words.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jonathan Manes

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The Villegas-Gonzalez family is planning to sue the U.S. government over his death... In these kinds of investigations, speed can matter. Evidence, witnesses, eyewitnesses, video. These sorts of things can disappear if you don't get them soon.

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In these kinds of investigations, speed can matter. Evidence, witnesses, eyewitnesses, video. These sorts of things can disappear if you don't get them soon.

An earlier version of this entry placed ABC7 Chicago's paraphrase, that the family is planning to sue the U.S. government over the death, inside Jonathan Manes's quotation. Those were the reporter's words, not his. The quotation now contains only words ABC7 attributes directly to Manes, and the planned lawsuit is described in the summary as ABC7's report. The earlier summary and context also described a wrongful-death suit and tied his remark to the federal investigation. ABC7 did not describe the type of suit, and it reported the remark after noting that the Illinois State Police investigation began nearly eight months after the shooting.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Republican Jewish Coalition

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Source: Washington Examiner, "Republican Jewish Coalition condemns Piker's Hamas comments," cited for the statement "There is nothing 'moderate' about Hamas, and there is nothing defensible about Hasan Piker."

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Source: Fox News, "Hasan Piker calls Hamas 'far more moderate,' dismisses terror group’s brutal rule in Gaza" (Aug. 21, 2026), which quotes RJC National Political Director Sam Markstein's statement to Fox News Digital.

An earlier version of this entry cited a Washington Examiner article that does not contain this quotation. The words appear in Fox News Digital's Aug. 21, 2026 report, which we now cite. The quotation and its attribution to the Republican Jewish Coalition are unchanged.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jeis Whittaker

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Interviewed by KXAN, Jeis Whittaker, a native Texan who identifies as non-binary, said... (speaker description: Private individual interviewed by KXAN; a native Texan who identifies as non-binary)

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Speaking to the Houston Chronicle, Jeis Whittaker, a native Texan who identifies as non-binary, said... (speaker description: Private individual interviewed by the Houston Chronicle; a native Texan who identifies as non-binary)

This entry said Jeis Whittaker made these remarks in an interview with KXAN and cited KXAN's September 14 report, which does not quote Whittaker. The quotations come from Gwen Howerton's September 12 report in the Houston Chronicle, which the entry now cites. We have corrected the summary, context and speaker description to match, and the case overview, which also placed Whittaker and Emily Oswin-Welborn in the KXAN report, now credits the Chronicle. The quoted words and the classification are unchanged.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Jamal Tooson

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Tooson said the witnesses told him the shots "sounded like they came from the same weapon" and that one witness gave LAPD Ring-camera footage of the moments before the shooting.

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Tooson said the witnesses also told him the shots sounded like they came from the same weapon, and that one of the witnesses gave LAPD footage from a Ring camera that captured audio of the shooting.

We previously said a witness gave police Ring camera footage of the moments before the shooting and placed a description of the gunshots in quotation marks. LAist reported that the footage captured audio of the shooting, and its account of what the witnesses said about the shots is a paraphrase, not a quotation. We corrected the context to match the source.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Corbin Trent

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Corbin Trent (entry 793): "a strange sentence to string together... if immigrants were the implied cause, then that probably is racist". Ashley Davis (entry 794): "a strong speaker who rallied the crowd... and may have positioned himself to clear the 2028 field". Each entry also said Davis spoke after Trent. The case timeline said: Panelist Corbin Trent says that if immigrants were the implied cause, "that probably is racist". Panelist Ashley Davis calls Vance "a strong speaker who rallied the crowd" and does not address the "dirtier" remark.

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Corbin Trent (entry 793): "that's a strange sentence to string together, you know? ... It's -- if it was because of Black and brown people was your assessment of why we've become poor, why we're dirty, then that probably is racist." Ashley Davis (entry 794): "Yes. But here's what I have to say about, and I've just seen clips of his speech, I didn't watch the whole thing. He was a good speaker, and I think that he set himself up for clearing the field potentially. ... But he riled the base almost as Trump -- as good as Trump." The case timeline now says: Panelist Ashley Davis answers "Yes," then praises Vance as "a good speaker" who "riled the base almost as Trump." Panelist Corbin Trent calls the line "a strange sentence to string together" and says that if Vance's explanation for the country becoming poorer and dirtier was "Black and brown people," then "that probably is racist."

We presented a news report's paraphrases as the speakers' own words. Trent did not say "if immigrants were the implied cause"; he referred to "Black and brown people." We replaced both quotations and the matching timeline entry with the speakers' words from CNN's transcript of the broadcast and corrected the order of the exchange: Davis spoke before Trent.

Correction to: Statement by Letitia James

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Speaker: Ken Martin

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Speaker: Letitia James

We attributed New York Attorney General Letitia James's statement to Ken Martin. Her office issued the statement, and we have corrected the speaker.

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Correction to: Statement by Jeremy Moss

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We will not be lectured by a California podcaster about what Oakland County, Michigan's Jewish community should and shouldn't believe.

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I will not be lectured by a California podcaster about what Oakland County, Michigan's Jewish community should and shouldn't believe.

An earlier version of this entry misquoted the first word of Jeremy Moss's statement as "We." His August 24 statement on X reads "I will not be lectured." We corrected the quotation and added his post as a source.

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Correction to: Statement by Alex Galbraith

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The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling.

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The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine that hallucinates in exchange for electricity, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling the track leaves behind.

We shortened Alex Galbraith’s sentence without marking where words were left out. The entry now quotes the full sentence as Salon published it.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Rabbi Josh Whinston

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crickets... His antisemitism statement is disingenuous, given his having called Israel bloodthirsty and evil.

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He went on national television that morning and called Israel's leadership 'bloodthirsty,' and that evening issued a statement about caring for the safety of the Jewish community like his own daughters ... To me, that just feels completely disingenuous. Those things are worlds apart from each other.

The earlier quotation did not appear in The Center Square's report. "Crickets" was the Nonnegotiable Michigan coalition's word, not Whinston's, and the rest was the reporter's summary of his view. We replaced the quotation with Whinston's own words as The Center Square printed them and corrected the summary, title and context.

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Correction to: Statement by Noel Boyer

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effective 20% pay raise per employee for fewer hours

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That means that on day one, every one of my employees gets a 20% raise just like boom, because if I’ve got to pay them the same for a quarter less hours, they’re taking a 20% raise right off the top. So it means I’m going to be paying a lot more overtime plus the 20% raise that everybody gets just for already. And the only way to really recoup that...most small businesses run on a fairly small margin. The only way to recoup that is to jack prices up, and it’s going to be significant.

An earlier version of this entry presented a paraphrase as Noel Boyer's own words. We replaced it with his remarks as KY3 reported them.

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Correction to: Statement by Ian Boucard

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Il s’agit d’une présomption simple. Cela signifie deux choses essentielles. Premièrement, elle n’est pas un blanc-seing : elle ne joue que lorsque l’usage de l’arme s’inscrit dans un cadre légal déjà strict, fondé sur l’absolue nécessité et la stricte proportionnalité de l’usage de la force, et dans des hypothèses précisément énumérées.

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Il s’agit d’une présomption simple, ce qui signifie deux choses essentielles : premièrement, qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un blanc-seing, la présomption ne jouant que lorsque l’usage de l’arme s’inscrit dans un cadre légal déjà strict, fondé sur l’absolue nécessité et la stricte proportionnalité de l’usage de la force ; ... deuxièmement, que cette présomption peut être renversée, le texte prévoyant explicitement qu’elle tombe si l’enquête établit une utilisation illégitime.

We previously quoted Ian Boucard in wording that did not match the official National Assembly record. Our quotation also included a clause about precisely enumerated cases, which does not appear in his remarks. The entry now quotes the record verbatim, and we updated the summary and context to match.

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Correction to: Statement by Danny Danon

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Quotation: "The person who should be arrested is not our prime minister, it is you, Mr. Mamdani." Summary: Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon called Mamdani a "clown" and his arrest threat "a stunt," saying Mamdani himself, not Netanyahu, was the one who should be arrested. Date: July 19, 2026.

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Quotation: "Those baseless remarks about harassing the prime minister — it's a joke, and he's a clown. ... Everyone knows it's a show. It's a stunt. ... A mayor should be dealing with the homeless people, the garbage in New York, and leave foreign affairs to the people in Washington who are elected to do it." Summary: In an interview with Fox News Digital, Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon called Mamdani a "clown" and his arrest threat "a stunt," saying the mayor should focus on New York's problems and leave foreign affairs to Washington. Date: July 22, 2026.

An earlier version of this entry quoted words Danon spoke on a different occasion, which do not appear in the cited Fox News report, and dated his remarks July 19. We replaced the quotation with his words as the report prints them and corrected the date to July 22, when he gave the interview.

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Correction to: Statement by Elizabeth Laird

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"could relieve individual districts from negotiating with tech firms alone"

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"What I’m hopeful about is that this takes some of the pressure off individual school districts to negotiate with large tech companies"

We attributed a quotation to Elizabeth Laird that does not appear in the cited Associated Press report. We replaced it with her words as the report printed them and revised the title and summary to match.

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Correction to: Statement by Hasan Piker

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Said on a livestream on Friday, September 18, 2026, after playing a Republican attack ad against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed that featured clips of Piker saying "I hate America."

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Said on a livestream on Friday, September 11, 2026, after playing a Republican attack ad against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed that featured clips of Piker saying "I hate America."

This entry dated Piker's livestream remarks to Friday, September 18, 2026. The livestream took place on Friday, September 11, 2026, as a Fox News report published September 13 shows. We have corrected the date and added that report as a source.

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Correction to: Statement by Ben Shapiro

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Speaker: Philip DeFranco. Quotation: "It feels like a coordinated operation to stop the progress of AI in favor of government regulation... a very strong interest in regulatory capture, who wanna write the regulations themselves." Source: Ben Shapiro Show, Ep. 2507: "Democrats Push AI Doomerism" (September 15, 2026).

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Speaker: Ben Shapiro. Quotation: "It feels like a coordinated operation to stop the progress of AI in favor of government regulation." (Fox Business, Kudlow) and "I think one argument is that the risks are being exaggerated by people who have a very strong interest in regulatory capture, who want to write the regulations themselves." (CNN NewsNight), both on September 14, 2026.

We attributed Ben Shapiro's remarks to Philip DeFranco in error. We also could not confirm the quoted words in the member-only Daily Wire clip we cited, so we now cite the September 14 broadcasts where Shapiro said them and quote the CNN passage from the network's transcript.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Carlos Jimenez

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“It was as he was backing up that he was shot,” Jimenez said.

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Are you really going to shoot an American citizen?

We presented the San Bernardino County Sentinel's paraphrase of Jimenez's account as his direct quotation. The article did not quote those words. The entry now quotes only words the article attributes to Jimenez and describes the rest of his account in the summary.

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Correction to: Statement by National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

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Position Event #349 classifies the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare’s statement as “Condemned,” on the ground that it criticizes Collins.

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The case asks whether the Ossoff advertisement fairly represented Collins’s radio interview. By asserting that Collins wants to end Social Security, NCPSSM adopts the advertisement’s reading of his position, so the classification is “Defended or excused.”

The label was measured against Collins rather than against the case’s fixed question about the advertisement’s characterization. The quotation, summary and source are unchanged.

This corrects an editorial classification.

Correction to: Statement by Jon Ossoff

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Position Event #320 classifies the Ossoff campaign’s Social Security advertisement as “Condemned,” on the ground that it criticizes Collins’s position on Social Security.

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The advertisement is the conduct under scrutiny in the case, which asks whether it fairly represented Collins’s radio interview. By presenting the clipped excerpt as Collins’s position, the campaign asserts that its reading is fair, so the classification is “Defended or excused.”

The label was measured against Collins rather than against the case’s fixed question about the advertisement, so it read as the opposite of the campaign’s stance on that question. The same case already labels the campaign’s later defense of the ad (#1066) “Defended or excused.” The quotation, summary and sources are unchanged.

This corrects an editorial classification.

Correction to: Statement by Lizzie O'Shea

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There have to be guardrails and safety measures in place which are way ahead of the capability which is being developed.

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The fact that it has taken OpenAI three months to tell us that one of its agents hacked Australia's Medicare system is further proof of the need for some basic rules and standards for tech companies.

The quotation attributed to Lizzie O'Shea (Digital Rights Watch) was a media paraphrase, not her own words. O'Shea contacted us directly in response to our inquiry and provided the actual statement Digital Rights Watch circulated to media, portions of which were published in the Guardian. The record has been corrected to quote her verified words and to add context from her full statement, including her reference to Digital Rights Watch's AI Harms Register.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Correction to: Statement by Lizzie O'Shea

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There have to be guardrails and safety measures in place which are way ahead of the capability which is being developed.

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The fact that it has taken OpenAI three months to tell us that one of its agents hacked Australia's Medicare system is further proof of the need for some basic rules and standards for tech companies.

The quotation attributed to Lizzie O'Shea (Digital Rights Watch) was a media paraphrase, not her own words. O'Shea contacted us directly in response to our inquiry and provided the actual statement Digital Rights Watch circulated to media, portions of which were published in the Guardian. The record has been corrected to quote her verified words and to add context from her full statement, including her reference to Digital Rights Watch's AI Harms Register.

This corrects our account of what happened.