then count the number of american news outlets covering it....
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I'm seeing plenty, but it all mostly looks like local Las Vegas news.
Reuters has it (paywalled):
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-denies-intervening-case-israeli-official-accused-nevada-sex-crime-2025-08-18/
US News and World Report:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-18/us-denies-intervening-in-case-of-israeli-official-accused-of-nevada-sex-crime
Ynet:
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1mscw0del
But no CNN, MSNBC, major newspapers, etc. After that mostly local stuff:
KLAS:
https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/israeli-official-planned-to-meet-decoy-posing-as-15-year-old-in-las-vegas-sex-sting-police/
Fox 5 Vegas:
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/08/18/report-suspect-sex-sting-claims-hes-worked-with-israeli-government-14-years/
Las Vegas Review Journal:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/sex-crimes/israeli-officials-child-sex-sting-bail-was-standard-da-says-3426468/
KOLO:
https://www.kolotv.com/2025/08/18/us-says-it-didnt-intervene-arrest-israeli-man-accused-las-vegas-valley-child-sex-sting/
Reuters ~~and "usnews" are both~~ is foreign lol
Everything US based is small and local....
EDIT: whoops
US News and World Report is headquartered in Washington D.C. and New York:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.News%26_World_Report
tyvm, thought it was foreign owned
Back in the day they were a national magazine on par with Time or Newsweek.
I'm freaked out and saw he was born in canada lol