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Actual title: "US says Russian warplane hits American drone over Black Sea"

Why do people, who can't write grammatical English, insist on "translating" article titles?

I did no such thing. AP changed the title after I posted the article. I noticed this almost immediately, but it's not possible for the submitter to edit the title after the fact. I could have reached out to dang to get the title changed but I regarded this as too petty a matter to be worthy of anyone's attention.

Interestingly, the first time AP revised the article there was a note indicating a revision occurred, and a paste of new information near the top with Russia's initial response. It's a rather different article now.

I apologise for jumping to conclusions!

No worries - it was interesting to learn how much AP stories shared under the same URL can mutate. It was illuminating to look at the archive.org record of this URL, which changed 13 times yesterday over the course of 12 hours, but with the same author credited. It wasn't obvious to me that I was sharing a "live update" type of story (one whose content certainly changed significantly throughout the day) and I don't think it would be to most people.

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