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Keywords

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Top keywords across all news outlets

Ranked by share of stories: the share of each source's stories that day that mention the keyword, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories, so every outlet counts equally whatever the size of its feed. 20% means one in five stories at a typical outlet. Article counts are shown for context.

Top keywords across all news outlets
124.4%11
213.5%10
312.3%10
410.1%8
59.5%8
68.6%7
78.1%5
85.9%7
95.3%5
105.1%7
115.0%6
125.0%7
135.0%7
144.3%2
154.0%5

Rising today

Keywords whose share of stories jumped most against their average of the previous seven days: breaking stories, even before they top the list. Only keywords in at least 3% of stories today count.

Rising today
KeywordTypeTodayAverage of the previous 7 daysChangeLast 8 days
person24.4%3.5%+20.9 pts
topic13.5%2.5%+11.0 pts
place12.3%1.8%+10.5 pts
topic10.1%1.0%+9.1 pts
place9.5%1.5%+8.0 pts
place8.1%0.5%+7.5 pts
organization8.6%1.1%+7.5 pts
place5.3%0.1%+5.1 pts
topic5.9%0.9%+5.0 pts
organization5.1%0.1%+5.0 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Jul 8 to Jul 21, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Jul 8 to Jul 21 ranked against each other each day by share of stories, top 10 per day. A line breaks where a keyword fell out of them. Click a line to open the keyword.

Jul 9Jul 11Jul 13Jul 15Jul 17Jul 19Jul 21tariff: #7, 7.9% of stories, Jul 20Canada: #6, 8.9% of stories, Jul 20World Cup: #5, 9.3% of stories, Jul 20Congress: #10, 5.1% of stories, Jul 2110. CongressCalifornia: #9, 5.3% of stories, Jul 219. Californiamilitary: #10, 6.4% of stories, Jul 20military: #8, 5.9% of stories, Jul 218. militaryArizona: #7, 8.1% of stories, Jul 217. ArizonaRepublican Party: #8, 7.8% of stories, Jul 20Republican Party: #6, 8.6% of stories, Jul 216. Republican PartyUnited States: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 20United States: #5, 9.5% of stories, Jul 215. United Stateselection: #9, 7.1% of stories, Jul 20election: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 214. electionIran: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 20Iran: #3, 12.3% of stories, Jul 213. IranIran war: #2, 17.8% of stories, Jul 20Iran war: #2, 13.5% of stories, Jul 212. Iran warDonald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 20Donald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 211. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Jul 8 to Jul 21, shaded by their share of stories each day and ordered by the day they peaked, so stories read from top left to bottom right as they rise and fade.

Hover a row to split its cells by outlet lean:leftcenterright

Blindspots

Top keywords of the day that one side covered far more: in at least 5% of stories at outlets of one lean and at most a third of that at the other. Left-leaning are 15 of our sources, right-leaning 15.

Mostly left-leaning outlets

  • 34.3% vs 10.3%
  • 12.2% vs 1.7%
  • 8.3% vs 0.3%
  • 7.8% vs 0.0%
  • 8.8% vs 1.9%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 14.3% vs 4.5%
  • 9.1% vs 0.0%
  • 7.0% vs 0.0%
  • 7.9% vs 1.1%
  • 6.6% vs 0.0%

Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Who covers what

The day's top keywords by source: each dot is the share of the source's stories that mention the keyword, colored by the source's lean. Sources with fewer than 3 stories are left out. Click a dot to open the keyword.

Source lean:leftcenterright

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

By source

Each source's top keywords by the share of its stories that mention them.