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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 United States that mention Pete Hegseth.
1.5% of the 412 articles on United States also mention Pete Hegseth, as do 10.0% of the 60 articles on Pete Hegseth.
- Left-leaning1 of 151 articles
- 0.7%
- Least biased2 of 80 articles
- 2.5%
- Right-leaning3 of 181 articles
- 1.7%
Who picked it up when
It was already in the news on Oct 20, when this period starts, so who reported it first is not shown.
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.
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Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
6 articles mention United States and Pete Hegseth in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Daily Caller | Military Boards Go Rogue On Hegseth’s Transgender Troop BanThe Daily Caller Military boards are blatantly disobeying Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth’s ban on transgenders serving in the United States Armed Forces. | 0.55 | |
| Washington Examiner | Hegseth announces dismantling of Chinese ‘sleeper organizations’ at universitiesWashington Examiner The Pentagon has dismantled 80 Chinese “propaganda cells” at colleges and universities across the United States in the past two months, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Friday. In a video posted to X, Hegseth talked about “Confucius Institutes” at American higher education institutions, saying that although Congress has acted to restrict the Chinese-backed […] | 0.50 | |
| The Hill | Hegseth bars US forces from using undisclosed information to bet on Polymarket, KalshiThe Hill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth barred all Pentagon staff from using undisclosed information to place wagers on forthcoming U.S. military action using betting platforms and prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. “Make no mistake why this matters. Our enemies watch movements in these markets," Hegseth said in a memo, first obtained by CBS News. "When an American... | 0.68● | |
| The Guardian | Pete Hegseth reportedly authorizes DHS to test ‘heat ray’ at US-Mexico borderThe Guardian The Pentagon’s Active Denial System shoots energy beam that causes ‘sensation of intense heat on surface of skin’ Pete Hegseth , the US secretary of defense, reportedly signed a memo last month permitting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to test a non-lethal “heat ray” for potential use at the US southern border. The “heat ray”, known as the Active Denial System , is a military-grade weapon that shoots an energy beam causing “a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin”, according to a 2009 National Defense University case study on the weapon. Continue reading... | 0.60● | |
| UPI | U.S. holds secret talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in IsraelUPI U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held unannounced talks with Israel's embattled leader a day after President Trump endorsed Netanyahu for re-election. | 0.60 | |
| NewsNation | Hegseth meets Netanyahu as US, Israel discuss renewed Iran strikesNewsNation Pakistan’s army chief is expected in Tehran Tuesday, according to Iranian media and a Pakistani official cited by Reuters. | 0.70● |
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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.
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 710 |
| The Hill | 0.2% | 1 | 418 |
| UPI | 0.6% | 1 | 161 |
| NewsNation | 0.6% | 1 | 162 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.3% | 1 | 332 |
| The Daily Caller | 0.6% | 1 | 176 |
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 biased2 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Lean index +2.7: covered more by right-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.