Less click-baity than the "set to collide with Earth's orbit" (!) or "will skim past the Earth" (probably a secondhand misunderstanding), which other outlets decided to go with.
I quoted that one as probably intended to be accurate and 'a thing' (vaguely passing through the 3D 'sweep' of Earth, but at an otherwise irrelevent time, is not a 'collision', and being ~6x the distance to the Moon isn't a 'skim' to a layperson) but with perhaps an unfortunate interpretation of the correctky-intended title. And the other two linked were one at about 3x that of the above, and a much smaller one (atmosphere-exploder, probably, though some would probably accept a Tunguska Event as acceptible compromise) with 'just' 5x Earth-Moon distance in it.
And I'm not saying it's likely that an Unknown Unknown might zero in on the North American continent perhaps hyperbolically from directly out (with low albedo and little relative motion to trigger the usual algorithms) or even similar but on the way back out from a tight pass of the Sun (lost in the glare, as it rounds the rim). Mostly I was thinking of the standard Roulette Fallacies.
ETA some 'proper' Ameripol, just barely maybe: Past Presidential hopeful (and AntiVirus tycoon) McAfee has been arrested, for extradition, in Spain for mis/non-filing of US taxes. Seems like he actually has a fortune to hide, though.