Congress Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk's death

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17. I know. I winced when I saw that. But we're required to use the exact headline. I can only be

responsible for my own writing (and then only if an editor doesn't meddle).

There's no way to know who wrote that Verge headline, but a good chance it wasn't the journalist who wrote the article, because headlines are usually an editorial decision. And the writer of the article didn't use the words Congress or Congressional even once, just referred to House Republicans.

There's also a small chance the original headline, before publication, had included a colon

Congress: Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk's death

and at the last minute someone had removed the colon - maybe even planning to change that to

Congressional Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk's death

- and then forgot to change that first word to an adjective.

You can get all sorts of mishaps during editing, and they don't all get caught.

I did just check that article again to see if they'd corrected the grammatical error, as sometimes happens (we've seen a lot of changed headlines in LBN, and I even had an LBN thread locked once, temporarily, after the headline was changed, even though the link hadn't been changed). But they haven't fixed the headline yet.