The long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln returns home to San Diego from Middle East

What the coverage shows

Most outlets frame the story around the Lincoln’s return to San Diego after a record-long or nearly yearlong deployment, with AP, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS and the New York Times all emphasizing the length of the mission and the homecoming. The main differences are in what they foreground beyond that: AP, NPR, the South China Morning Post and the New York Times stress difficult conditions aboard ship, while The Hill and ABC’s later item highlight grueling or poor onboard conditions more explicitly. The Guardian alone prominently centers the turnout for sailors and families, and in a separate update it focuses on the commanding officer addressing reported suicide attempts.

Written by Crossfiled from the 12 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.