This is a non-story, at least so far, but you have to read well into the text to find that out.
Title: "U.S. to Ban Laptops"
Subtitle: "Homeland Security has decided"
Body: "No final decisions have been made"
Title: "U.S. to Ban Laptops"
Subtitle: "Homeland Security has decided"
Body: "No final decisions have been made"
The official statement is short enough that they wouldn't technically be lying if they then came out Thursday with a laptop ban.
I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
We can turn that around and put it positively: patience till a thing actually happens is good for story quality.