[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
ABC's World News Tonight stood out as the only Big Three evening newscast on 7 July 2016 to cover the revelation that a Russian police officer physically attacked an American diplomat as he entered the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Martha Raddatz spotlighted the "really astonishing" confrontation where "the diplomat was assaulted the second he went up the steps; and then, had to fight and struggle to get himself inside to safety." She also pointed out the context of the recent "ear-shattering close encounters between Russian jets and U.S. warships."