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Keywords

Tuesday, August 18, 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
131.4%10
210.5%5
310.1%5
410.0%6
59.8%5
69.1%6
78.1%6
87.9%6
97.4%4
107.2%4
116.4%3
126.0%4
135.7%2
145.4%4
155.2%3

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
person31.4%15.9%+15.6 pts
place10.0%0.8%+9.2 pts
place10.5%3.1%+7.3 pts
organization9.1%2.9%+6.2 pts
person6.4%0.7%+5.8 pts
person5.0%0.1%+4.9 pts
topic8.1%3.4%+4.7 pts
place7.2%2.5%+4.6 pts
place5.7%1.2%+4.5 pts
person4.5%0.3%+4.2 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Aug 5 to Aug 18, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Aug 5 to Aug 18 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.

Aug 6Aug 8Aug 10Aug 12Aug 14Aug 16Aug 18murder: #8, 5.6% of stories, Aug 7health care: #9, 4.0% of stories, Aug 8health care: #8, 3.6% of stories, Aug 10health care: #10, 3.5% of stories, Aug 11health care: #9, 3.9% of stories, Aug 15Supreme Court: #6, 6.3% of stories, Aug 7Supreme Court: #10, 3.1% of stories, Aug 12midterm election: #5, 6.1% of stories, Aug 9midterm election: #10, 3.4% of stories, Aug 10midterm election: #7, 4.0% of stories, Aug 16lawsuit: #5, 6.6% of stories, Aug 7lawsuit: #4, 6.3% of stories, Aug 12lawsuit: #5, 7.2% of stories, Aug 13lawsuit: #8, 4.4% of stories, Aug 14lawsuit: #10, 3.3% of stories, Aug 16lawsuit: #5, 6.3% of stories, Aug 17military: #9, 4.8% of stories, Aug 11military: #7, 5.2% of stories, Aug 13military: #3, 5.8% of stories, Aug 14military: #7, 4.3% of stories, Aug 15military: #7, 5.1% of stories, Aug 17Michigan: #3, 17.8% of stories, Aug 5MichiganTrump administration: #9, 5.3% of stories, Aug 6Trump administration: #4, 7.0% of stories, Aug 7Trump administration: #2, 6.8% of stories, Aug 8Trump administration: #7, 3.8% of stories, Aug 10Trump administration: #7, 6.3% of stories, Aug 11Trump administration: #8, 4.8% of stories, Aug 13Trump administration: #4, 6.1% of stories, Aug 16Trump administration: #2, 8.3% of stories, Aug 17Abdul El-Sayed: #1, 22.4% of stories, Aug 5Abdul El-Sayed: #8, 5.7% of stories, Aug 6Abdul El-Sayed: #10, 4.9% of stories, Aug 7Abdul El-Sayed: #8, 4.7% of stories, Aug 9Abdul El-Sayeddeath: #8, 4.7% of stories, Aug 5death: #10, 4.0% of stories, Aug 6death: #7, 5.9% of stories, Aug 7death: #10, 4.5% of stories, Aug 9death: #5, 4.3% of stories, Aug 10death: #9, 3.5% of stories, Aug 14death: #1, 7.2% of stories, Aug 15death: #8, 3.8% of stories, Aug 16deathpolitics: #6, 4.0% of stories, Aug 10politics: #10, 4.4% of stories, Aug 13politics: #10, 2.6% of stories, Aug 15politics: #3, 7.0% of stories, Aug 17politics: #10, 5.4% of stories, Aug 1810. politicsUnited States: #6, 6.1% of stories, Aug 5United States: #3, 8.1% of stories, Aug 6United States: #3, 6.3% of stories, Aug 8United States: #7, 5.3% of stories, Aug 9United States: #3, 9.0% of stories, Aug 10United States: #8, 6.1% of stories, Aug 11United States: #6, 4.4% of stories, Aug 12United States: #3, 7.7% of stories, Aug 13United States: #6, 4.7% of stories, Aug 14United States: #4, 5.4% of stories, Aug 15United States: #5, 4.8% of stories, Aug 16United States: #4, 7.0% of stories, Aug 17United States: #9, 6.0% of stories, Aug 18United States9. United Statesartificial intelligence: #7, 4.8% of stories, Aug 5artificial intelligence: #5, 6.1% of stories, Aug 6artificial intelligence: #3, 7.5% of stories, Aug 7artificial intelligence: #5, 5.5% of stories, Aug 8artificial intelligence: #3, 6.6% of stories, Aug 9artificial intelligence: #2, 9.0% of stories, Aug 10artificial intelligence: #3, 9.3% of stories, Aug 11artificial intelligence: #5, 5.1% of stories, Aug 12artificial intelligence: #2, 7.7% of stories, Aug 13artificial intelligence: #2, 6.5% of stories, Aug 14artificial intelligence: #6, 4.7% of stories, Aug 15artificial intelligence: #2, 6.9% of stories, Aug 16artificial intelligence: #8, 7.4% of stories, Aug 18artificial intelligence8. artificial intelligenceIran: #7, 5.9% of stories, Aug 6Iran: #6, 4.9% of stories, Aug 8Iran: #6, 5.5% of stories, Aug 9Iran: #4, 4.9% of stories, Aug 10Iran: #5, 7.2% of stories, Aug 11Iran: #8, 4.2% of stories, Aug 12Iran: #10, 3.4% of stories, Aug 14Iran: #3, 5.5% of stories, Aug 15Iran: #6, 4.6% of stories, Aug 16Iran: #10, 3.6% of stories, Aug 17Iran: #7, 7.9% of stories, Aug 187. IranIran war: #9, 3.5% of stories, Aug 5Iran war: #7, 4.7% of stories, Aug 8Iran war: #4, 6.1% of stories, Aug 9Iran war: #7, 4.2% of stories, Aug 12Iran war: #8, 4.1% of stories, Aug 15Iran war: #9, 4.0% of stories, Aug 17Iran war: #6, 8.1% of stories, Aug 18Iran war6. Iran warRepublican Party: #10, 3.2% of stories, Aug 5Republican Party: #2, 9.2% of stories, Aug 6Republican Party: #9, 5.3% of stories, Aug 7Republican Party: #8, 4.0% of stories, Aug 8Republican Party: #2, 7.0% of stories, Aug 9Republican Party: #6, 6.4% of stories, Aug 11Republican Party: #5, 9.1% of stories, Aug 18Republican Party5. Republican PartyDemocratic Party: #2, 21.7% of stories, Aug 5Democratic Party: #6, 6.0% of stories, Aug 6Democratic Party: #2, 7.9% of stories, Aug 7Democratic Party: #4, 5.7% of stories, Aug 8Democratic Party: #9, 4.6% of stories, Aug 9Democratic Party: #4, 7.8% of stories, Aug 11Democratic Party: #1, 17.3% of stories, Aug 12Democratic Party: #9, 4.7% of stories, Aug 13Democratic Party: #5, 4.9% of stories, Aug 14Democratic Party: #5, 5.3% of stories, Aug 15Democratic Party: #3, 6.2% of stories, Aug 16Democratic Party: #8, 4.7% of stories, Aug 17Democratic Party: #4, 9.8% of stories, Aug 18Democratic Party4. Democratic Partyelection: #4, 16.6% of stories, Aug 5election: #4, 6.2% of stories, Aug 6election: #10, 3.6% of stories, Aug 8election: #2, 11.8% of stories, Aug 11election: #2, 14.7% of stories, Aug 12election: #4, 7.5% of stories, Aug 13election: #7, 4.5% of stories, Aug 14election: #9, 3.7% of stories, Aug 16election: #3, 10.1% of stories, Aug 18election3. electionIsrael: #9, 3.5% of stories, Aug 10Israel: #9, 3.5% of stories, Aug 12Israel: #6, 6.0% of stories, Aug 13Israel: #4, 5.0% of stories, Aug 14Israel: #6, 5.9% of stories, Aug 17Israel: #2, 10.5% of stories, Aug 182. IsraelDonald Trump: #5, 13.6% of stories, Aug 5Donald Trump: #1, 22.6% of stories, Aug 6Donald Trump: #1, 17.8% of stories, Aug 7Donald Trump: #1, 7.8% of stories, Aug 8Donald Trump: #1, 8.0% of stories, Aug 9Donald Trump: #1, 18.6% of stories, Aug 10Donald Trump: #1, 20.3% of stories, Aug 11Donald Trump: #3, 12.5% of stories, Aug 12Donald Trump: #1, 19.8% of stories, Aug 13Donald Trump: #1, 16.1% of stories, Aug 14Donald Trump: #2, 6.4% of stories, Aug 15Donald Trump: #1, 18.4% of stories, Aug 16Donald Trump: #1, 17.8% of stories, Aug 17Donald Trump: #1, 31.4% of stories, Aug 18Donald Trump1. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Aug 5 to Aug 18, 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

  • 14.0% vs 0.0%
  • 10.7% vs 0.0%
  • 10.1% vs 0.0%
  • 9.5% vs 0.0%
  • 8.6% vs 0.0%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 16.7% vs 0.0%
  • 18.3% vs 2.9%
  • 10.0% vs 0.0%
  • 10.0% vs 0.8%
  • 10.0% vs 0.8%

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.