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Keywords

Thursday, July 23, 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
119.0%8
29.9%6
38.9%3
47.2%6
56.2%5
65.6%3
75.6%1
85.4%4
95.3%4
105.2%5
115.2%6
125.1%5
134.8%4
144.7%4
154.5%6

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
person19.0%9.4%+9.6 pts
person9.9%0.8%+9.1 pts
organization8.9%1.3%+7.6 pts
place7.2%1.4%+5.8 pts
topic5.6%0.2%+5.3 pts
person5.6%0.7%+4.9 pts
place6.2%1.8%+4.3 pts
organization5.2%0.9%+4.3 pts
topic4.3%0.1%+4.2 pts
organization5.2%1.1%+4.1 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Jul 10 to Jul 23, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Jul 10 to Jul 23 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 11Jul 13Jul 15Jul 17Jul 19Jul 21Jul 23Congress: #10, 5.1% of stories, Jul 21California: #9, 5.3% of stories, Jul 21military: #8, 6.4% of stories, Jul 20military: #8, 5.9% of stories, Jul 21military: #9, 6.6% of stories, Jul 22Arizona: #7, 8.1% of stories, Jul 21Republican Party: #6, 7.8% of stories, Jul 20Republican Party: #6, 8.6% of stories, Jul 21Republican Party: #10, 5.2% of stories, Jul 22artificial intelligence: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 22Iran war: #2, 17.8% of stories, Jul 20Iran war: #2, 13.5% of stories, Jul 21Iran war: #2, 14.5% of stories, Jul 22United States: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 20United States: #5, 9.5% of stories, Jul 21United States: #8, 7.0% of stories, Jul 22United States: #10, 4.7% of stories, Jul 2310. United StatesDemocratic Party: #9, 4.6% of stories, Jul 20Democratic Party: #5, 10.8% of stories, Jul 22Democratic Party: #9, 4.8% of stories, Jul 239. Democratic Partyelection: #7, 7.1% of stories, Jul 20election: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 21election: #8, 5.1% of stories, Jul 238. electionSupreme Court: #7, 5.2% of stories, Jul 237. Supreme Courttariff: #5, 7.9% of stories, Jul 20tariff: #6, 5.3% of stories, Jul 236. tariffIran: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 20Iran: #3, 12.3% of stories, Jul 21Iran: #6, 10.2% of stories, Jul 22Iran: #5, 5.4% of stories, Jul 235. IranIsrael: #4, 11.0% of stories, Jul 22Israel: #4, 6.2% of stories, Jul 234. IsraelSaudi Arabia: #7, 8.3% of stories, Jul 22Saudi Arabia: #3, 7.2% of stories, Jul 233. Saudi ArabiaImmigration and Customs Enforcement: #10, 3.9% of stories, Jul 20Immigration and Customs Enforcement: #2, 8.9% of stories, Jul 232. Immigration and Customs…Donald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 20Donald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 21Donald Trump: #1, 17.4% of stories, Jul 22Donald Trump: #1, 19.0% of stories, Jul 231. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Jul 10 to Jul 23, 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

  • 26.0% vs 0.3%
  • 23.3% vs 2.7%
  • 18.1% vs 1.0%
  • 16.7% vs 0.0%
  • 15.0% vs 0.0%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 7.7% vs 1.0%
  • 7.2% vs 2.1%
  • 6.0% vs 1.0%
  • 7.0% vs 2.1%
  • 5.1% vs 1.0%

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.