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Jury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over Buffalo supermarket shooting
ABC News - US and WCNC Charlotte (Tegna) describe the same event in different terms.
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As of October 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM, this is how Optics News reads the wording differences in this story.
What happenedJury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the federal trial in which Payton Gendron possibly faces the death penalty for a mass shooting at a New York supermarket.
The headline splitThe headlines are mostly aligned. The differences are small wording choices, not a major framing split.
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Left / center-leftJury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over supermarket shooting
ABC News - US · Center-left · News report
CenterJury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over Buffalo supermarket shooting
KING5 (Tegna, Seattle) · Center · News report
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Jury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over Buffalo supermarket shooting
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the federal trial in which Payton Gendron possibly faces the death penalty for a mass shooting at a New York supermarket.
Jury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over supermarket shooting
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty
