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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering (theonion.com)

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Headlinese is an abbreviated form of news writing style used in newspaper headlines.[20] Because space is limited, headlines are written in a compressed telegraphic style, using special syntactic conventions,[21] including:

Forms of the verb "to be" and articles (a, an, the) are usually omitted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

The word "is" is often dropped in headlines in general

[–] BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is one hell of a newspaper federation