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Congress returns to a changed Washington after GOP's election wipeout
Headline with the fewest flagged expressions, from The Washington Times · 2 outlets · 2 reports
Earliest reported publication among tracked outlets: The Washington Times, . This is the earliest publication time an outlet gives in its own feed. It does not show who broke the story.
Word choice 92Temperature 85Flagged attribution phrases 100Headline wording 100
Lowered most by temperature
full text read · 18% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes · arithmetic
Names and figures each report includes
Names and numbers found in two or more reports of this event. A blank means not detected in the text this site could read, which is not the same as left out. This view does not change any score.
Name or number
Washington Times
PBS NewsHour
President Donald Trump
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Flagged words in context
Every listed word found in the stories' own text, with the words around it. Grey marks are shown but not counted: negated, attributed to a speaker, literal use, discussing the term, explained anonymity, or experimental.
PBS NewsHour: has been approved by Congress essentially every year since World War II. 1 point · Editorializing
PBS NewsHour: aid to Israel over the war on Gaza. The Senate hopes Monday to 2 points · Raises the temperature
What each report gives readers to check
Counted by published patterns in the text read. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How each count works
Sentences that mention only one side's party or politicians, counted for each side. Democratic side: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Democrat, Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Newsom, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Walz, Harris. Republican side: Republican Party, Republicans, Republican, Thune, Johnson, McConnell, DeSantis, Cruz, Greene, Vance, Trump. Asymmetry runs from −1 to +1; positive means the Democratic side gets more of that treatment, given how often each side is mentioned. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How it works
Not shown yet at the event level: each side needs at least 10 such sentences (now 8 and 17).
How each outlet presented it
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First figure
Figures framed as gain or loss
Front page
The Washington Times
PBS NewsHour
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