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Keywords

Friday, July 24, 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
122.3%13
29.2%8
37.6%9
47.0%6
56.4%9
65.3%7
74.3%8
84.1%6
94.1%6
103.9%8
113.7%6
123.7%4
133.6%6
143.6%6
153.6%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
person22.3%12.2%+10.1 pts
topic9.2%2.7%+6.6 pts
topic6.4%2.1%+4.3 pts
organization7.0%3.6%+3.4 pts
person3.4%0.0%+3.4 pts
person3.4%0.0%+3.4 pts
place3.7%0.4%+3.3 pts
place3.6%0.7%+2.9 pts
place3.2%0.3%+2.9 pts
topic3.6%0.8%+2.8 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Jul 11 to Jul 24, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Jul 11 to Jul 24 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 12Jul 14Jul 16Jul 18Jul 20Jul 22Jul 24arrest: #10, 5.7% of stories, Jul 20military: #8, 6.4% of stories, Jul 20military: #8, 5.9% of stories, Jul 21military: #9, 6.6% of stories, Jul 22Trump administration: #7, 5.2% of stories, Jul 23Arizona: #7, 8.1% of stories, Jul 21Israel: #4, 11.0% of stories, Jul 22Israel: #4, 6.2% of stories, Jul 23election: #7, 7.1% of stories, Jul 20election: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 21election: #8, 5.1% of stories, Jul 23Saudi Arabia: #7, 8.3% of stories, Jul 22Saudi Arabia: #3, 7.2% of stories, Jul 23Immigration and Customs Enforcement: #2, 8.9% of stories, Jul 23death: #10, 3.7% of stories, Jul 2410. deathIran: #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 23Iran: #9, 4.1% of stories, Jul 249. Iranartificial intelligence: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 22artificial intelligence: #8, 4.1% of stories, Jul 248. artificial intelligenceUnited 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 23United States: #7, 4.3% of stories, Jul 247. United StatesDemocratic Party: #10, 5.0% of stories, Jul 21Democratic Party: #5, 10.8% of stories, Jul 22Democratic Party: #9, 4.8% of stories, Jul 23Democratic Party: #6, 5.3% of stories, Jul 246. Democratic Partylawsuit: #9, 5.8% of stories, Jul 20lawsuit: #5, 6.4% of stories, Jul 245. lawsuitRepublican Party: #6, 7.8% of stories, Jul 20Republican Party: #6, 8.6% of stories, Jul 21Republican Party: #10, 5.2% of stories, Jul 22Republican Party: #4, 7.0% of stories, Jul 244. Republican PartyIran war: #2, 17.8% of stories, Jul 20Iran war: #2, 13.5% of stories, Jul 21Iran war: #2, 14.5% of stories, Jul 22Iran war: #3, 7.6% of stories, Jul 243. Iran wartariff: #5, 7.9% of stories, Jul 20tariff: #9, 5.0% of stories, Jul 21tariff: #6, 5.3% of stories, Jul 23tariff: #2, 9.2% of stories, Jul 242. tariffDonald 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 23Donald Trump: #1, 22.3% of stories, Jul 241. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Jul 11 to Jul 24, 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

  • 15.8% vs 3.3%
  • 15.9% vs 4.2%
  • 14.8% vs 3.6%
  • 9.9% vs 1.3%
  • 8.5% vs 0.0%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 8.6% vs 2.5%
  • 6.1% vs 1.1%

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.