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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on Congress that mention Illinois.
1.9% of the 104 articles on Congress also mention Illinois, as do 25.0% of the 8 articles on Illinois.
- Left-leaning1 of 33 articles
- 3.0%
- Least biased0 of 28 articles
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 43 articles
- 2.3%
Who picked it up when
NBC News mentioned it first (Oct 26, 2026, 3:58 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 4 hours later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
2 articles mention Congress and Illinois in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Examiner | Illinois man charged in white powder mail hoax targeting members of CongressWashington Examiner An Illinois man was arrested and charged by federal authorities for allegedly mailing letters containing an unknown substance to the state’s congressional offices, the Department of Justice said on Monday. Matthew Unglesbee, a 36-year-old resident of Quincy in southwestern Illinois, was charged with violations related to false information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications. He […] | 0.55● | |
| NBC News | Man charged with mailing threatening letters with white substance to members of CongressNBC News A man has been charged in Illinois with mailing four letters containing a white granular substance to members of Congress, all of which were sent in envelopes containing his name and home address. | 0.55 |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Narrow further
Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Congress and that keyword instead of Illinois, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| NBC News | 0.6% | 1 | 172 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.4% | 1 | 287 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −3.6: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.