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Keywords

Friday, August 28, 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
119.9%13
26.9%10
36.1%8
45.7%5
55.5%9
64.2%6
74.0%7
83.8%7
93.8%8
103.7%5
113.7%6
123.6%4
133.5%8
143.3%3
153.1%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
topic6.9%1.9%+4.9 pts
topic5.7%2.2%+3.5 pts
topic3.8%0.6%+3.3 pts
place3.0%0.3%+2.7 pts
organization3.1%0.7%+2.4 pts
topic4.0%2.2%+1.7 pts
topic3.7%2.1%+1.6 pts
topic4.2%2.7%+1.6 pts
organization3.3%2.0%+1.2 pts
person3.5%2.7%+0.8 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Aug 15 to Aug 28, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Aug 15 to Aug 28 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 16Aug 18Aug 20Aug 22Aug 24Aug 26Aug 28murder: #10, 2.9% of stories, Aug 23midterm election: #8, 4.0% of stories, Aug 16midterm election: #9, 3.6% of stories, Aug 20midterm election: #10, 3.3% of stories, Aug 21midterm election: #8, 7.2% of stories, Aug 22midterm election: #8, 4.4% of stories, Aug 23midterm election: #10, 5.3% of stories, Aug 24midterm election: #8, 5.1% of stories, Aug 26Senate race: #10, 4.8% of stories, Aug 18Senate race: #10, 5.6% of stories, Aug 22Senate race: #5, 8.5% of stories, Aug 25politics: #10, 2.6% of stories, Aug 15politics: #4, 7.0% of stories, Aug 17politics: #9, 5.4% of stories, Aug 18politics: #4, 6.6% of stories, Aug 21politicsCalifornia: #6, 4.7% of stories, Aug 16California: #3, 7.9% of stories, Aug 17California: #4, 5.9% of stories, Aug 23California: #9, 4.6% of stories, Aug 26California: #10, 4.2% of stories, Aug 27Canada: #5, 14.7% of stories, Aug 22Canada: #9, 3.6% of stories, Aug 23Canada: #2, 14.8% of stories, Aug 24Canada: #7, 6.2% of stories, Aug 25Republican Party: #4, 9.1% of stories, Aug 18Republican Party: #2, 8.6% of stories, Aug 19Republican Party: #7, 8.9% of stories, Aug 22Republican Party: #6, 5.2% of stories, Aug 23Republican Party: #3, 9.4% of stories, Aug 25lawsuit: #6, 6.3% of stories, Aug 17lawsuit: #8, 4.6% of stories, Aug 19lawsuit: #9, 3.7% of stories, Aug 21lawsuit: #6, 11.7% of stories, Aug 22lawsuit: #8, 6.1% of stories, Aug 24lawsuit: #9, 5.0% of stories, Aug 25lawsuit: #2, 12.7% of stories, Aug 26lawsuit: #7, 6.0% of stories, Aug 27election: #10, 3.7% of stories, Aug 16election: #2, 10.1% of stories, Aug 18election: #3, 8.3% of stories, Aug 19election: #5, 4.2% of stories, Aug 20election: #6, 8.8% of stories, Aug 24election: #6, 7.9% of stories, Aug 25election: #4, 7.3% of stories, Aug 26death: #1, 7.2% of stories, Aug 15death: #9, 3.8% of stories, Aug 16death: #9, 4.0% of stories, Aug 19death: #7, 4.0% of stories, Aug 20death: #5, 5.9% of stories, Aug 21death: #7, 4.4% of stories, Aug 23death: #8, 5.8% of stories, Aug 25death: #3, 8.1% of stories, Aug 26death: #4, 8.9% of stories, Aug 27deathtariff: #10, 3.7% of stories, Aug 19tariff: #3, 20.3% of stories, Aug 22tariff: #5, 10.9% of stories, Aug 24tariff: #4, 9.2% of stories, Aug 25tariff: #10, 3.1% of stories, Aug 2810. tariffIran: #3, 5.5% of stories, Aug 15Iran: #7, 4.6% of stories, Aug 16Iran: #10, 3.6% of stories, Aug 17Iran: #6, 7.9% of stories, Aug 18Iran: #10, 3.4% of stories, Aug 20Iran: #8, 3.8% of stories, Aug 21Iran: #4, 12.0% of stories, Aug 24Iran: #2, 10.5% of stories, Aug 25Iran: #3, 9.7% of stories, Aug 27Iran: #9, 3.6% of stories, Aug 28Iran9. IranDemocratic 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: #3, 9.8% of stories, Aug 18Democratic Party: #7, 5.1% of stories, Aug 19Democratic Party: #4, 4.3% of stories, Aug 20Democratic Party: #3, 7.2% of stories, Aug 23Democratic Party: #6, 6.0% of stories, Aug 26Democratic Party: #9, 4.7% of stories, Aug 27Democratic Party: #8, 3.7% of stories, Aug 28Democratic Party8. Democratic Partymilitary: #7, 4.3% of stories, Aug 15military: #7, 5.1% of stories, Aug 17military: #8, 4.0% of stories, Aug 20military: #6, 4.3% of stories, Aug 21military: #7, 3.7% of stories, Aug 28military7. militaryUnited States: #4, 5.4% of stories, Aug 15United States: #5, 4.8% of stories, Aug 16United States: #5, 7.0% of stories, Aug 17United States: #8, 6.0% of stories, Aug 18United States: #4, 7.7% of stories, Aug 19United States: #2, 7.8% of stories, Aug 20United States: #2, 6.7% of stories, Aug 21United States: #1, 23.9% of stories, Aug 22United States: #2, 8.2% of stories, Aug 23United States: #3, 13.2% of stories, Aug 24United States: #10, 5.0% of stories, Aug 25United States: #5, 6.1% of stories, Aug 26United States: #5, 6.7% of stories, Aug 27United States: #6, 3.8% of stories, Aug 28United States6. United Statesimmigration: #8, 4.1% of stories, Aug 15immigration: #9, 6.7% of stories, Aug 22immigration: #10, 4.5% of stories, Aug 26immigration: #5, 4.2% of stories, Aug 28immigration5. immigrationartificial intelligence: #6, 4.7% of stories, Aug 15artificial intelligence: #2, 6.9% of stories, Aug 16artificial intelligence: #7, 7.4% of stories, Aug 18artificial intelligence: #6, 5.3% of stories, Aug 19artificial intelligence: #3, 7.1% of stories, Aug 20artificial intelligence: #3, 6.6% of stories, Aug 21artificial intelligence: #1, 15.0% of stories, Aug 23artificial intelligence: #9, 5.8% of stories, Aug 24artificial intelligence: #7, 5.8% of stories, Aug 26artificial intelligence: #2, 13.8% of stories, Aug 27artificial intelligence: #4, 5.5% of stories, Aug 28artificial intelligence4. artificial intelligenceIran war: #9, 4.1% of stories, Aug 15Iran war: #9, 4.0% of stories, Aug 17Iran war: #5, 8.1% of stories, Aug 18Iran war: #6, 4.1% of stories, Aug 20Iran war: #6, 6.1% of stories, Aug 27Iran war: #3, 5.7% of stories, Aug 28Iran war3. Iran warTrump administration: #4, 6.1% of stories, Aug 16Trump administration: #2, 8.3% of stories, Aug 17Trump administration: #5, 6.2% of stories, Aug 19Trump administration: #7, 4.0% of stories, Aug 21Trump administration: #4, 15.6% of stories, Aug 22Trump administration: #7, 8.8% of stories, Aug 24Trump administration: #8, 5.2% of stories, Aug 27Trump administration: #2, 6.1% of stories, Aug 282. Trump administrationDonald 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 Trump: #1, 29.3% of stories, Aug 19Donald Trump: #1, 13.3% of stories, Aug 20Donald Trump: #1, 22.8% of stories, Aug 21Donald Trump: #2, 22.8% of stories, Aug 22Donald Trump: #5, 5.7% of stories, Aug 23Donald Trump: #1, 20.7% of stories, Aug 24Donald Trump: #1, 28.1% of stories, Aug 25Donald Trump: #1, 16.4% of stories, Aug 26Donald Trump: #1, 17.5% of stories, Aug 27Donald Trump: #1, 19.9% of stories, Aug 28Donald Trump1. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Aug 15 to Aug 28, 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

  • 8.3% vs 0.0%
  • 6.3% vs 0.3%
  • 6.3% vs 0.7%
  • 5.1% vs 0.3%
  • 5.1% vs 0.5%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 6.2% 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.