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ARCHIVED · 3 LEFT · 1 CENTER · 2 RIGHT · Aug 23, 1:56 AM

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UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Baker School releases statement following death of Nancy Kassebaum Baker

Headlines vary from focusing on a local school's statement to highlighting her "trailblazing" legacy as a GOP senator.

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What happenedBaker, the former wife of the late Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, passed away at 94.
What changedThe left frames it as "Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94". The right frames it as "Former GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Dies at 94".
ConfidenceHigh. 6+ sources across left, center, and right with comparable news formats.
Archive healthStable · 6 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format

WORDING GAP

65WORDING GAP

6 sources · 3 bias buckets · High confidence

Mostly Same. The left frames it as "Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94". The right frames it as "Former GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Dies at 94".

SOURCE MAP TIMELINE

Aug 22, 8:28 PM: New York Times Politics joined the source map.

Aug 22, 8:40 PM: The Guardian - US Politics joined the source map.

Aug 22, 9:51 PM: Fox News Politics joined the source map.

Aug 22, 11:07 PM: Truth Press joined the source map.

Now: Wording Gap is 65/99 and story health is stable · 6 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.

ARCHIVED SOURCES

Right ·News report

Former GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Dies at 94

Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a husband into office, has died at age 94. The longtime Kansas senator died Friday...

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Center-left ·News report
The Hindu1h ago

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former U.S. senator from Kansas, dies at 94

Nancy Kassebaum Baker was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 and served three terms

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Center ·News report

UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Baker School releases statement following death of Nancy Kassebaum Baker

Baker, the former wife of the late Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, passed away at 94.

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Center-right ·News report

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, trailblazing GOP senator who broke barriers for women in Congress, dead at 94

trailblazingbroke barriers

Nancy Kassebaum Baker co-authored a landmark 1996 health insurance law with Ted Kennedy and won Kansas re-election by huge margins twice.

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Left ·News report

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94

Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor’s daughter who became the first woman elected...

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Center-left ·News report

Nancy Kassebaum, First Woman to Chair a Major Senate Panel, Dies at 94

A moderate Republican from Kansas, she served three terms before tiring of political strife. “I couldn’t get elected today,” she said in 2013.

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