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ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
ICE entered into a no-bid contract to purchase the gloves from Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky-based firm that manufactures them.
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ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
CBS News and WWL-TV 4 (Tegna, New Orleans) describe the same event in different terms.
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What happenedICE entered into a no-bid contract to purchase the gloves from Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky-based firm that manufactures them.
What changedThe left frames it as "ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves". The center frames it as "ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks".
ConfidenceMedium. 3+ sources across at least two bias buckets with comparable news formats.
Archive healthLive match · 9 sources · 2 buckets · comparable news format
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51WORDING GAP
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Still Watching. The left frames it as "ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves". The center frames it as "ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks".
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Aug 27, 10:34 PM: WBIR10 (Tegna, Knoxville) joined the source map.
Aug 27, 11:32 PM: CBS News joined the source map.
Now: Wording Gap is 51/99 and story health is live match · 9 sources · 2 buckets · comparable news format.
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CBS News1h ago
ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves
ICE has granted a $16.7 million no-bid contract for 6,000 gloves that can deliver electric shocks, a new use-of-force tool that the agency claims will help officers control resisting detai...