STRAIGHT NEWS
Straight news — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -10, gpt-6-sol: -18, gemini-3.8-flash: -20, grok-4.7: -32).
The articles behind this score
- There is ‘a constant tournament of power going on in the Middle East,’ says historian
- Media witnesses recall what happened during Christa Pike’s failed execution
- Iranian accused of involvement in $3 billion hacking scheme extradited to US
- Captain Smit Machchhar: The ‘jovial’ pilot and father who thwarted the Flydubai attacker
- Indian pilot who fought off hijack attempt hailed as hero as Flydubai passengers describe terror onboard
- Candidates share lessons from California’s past for its next governor
- Hilton says Becerra ‘never created a job’ in his political career
- Hilton objects as Becerra repeatedly links him to Trump
- Exclusive: ICE officers can only conduct vehicle stops if they complete certain training, new guidance shows
- Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her death
- Trump threatens to annihilate Iran again and other takeaways from his TIME interview
- CNN hosts California gubernatorial debate ahead of critical midterm contest
- Americans are still spending. Friday’s jobs report will show if that can last
- A ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake America
- What went wrong with Christa Pike’s botched execution in Tennessee?
- Former Dallas officer who shot Black man in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole
- Attorney: Jane Doe ‘ We went from denial, to shame and ultimately acceptance”
- Flight simulation demonstrates Flydubai flight that plunged nearly 20,000 feet in 35 seconds after cockpit stabbing
- Netanyahu: Passengers aboard Flydubai flight prevented a ‘9/11-type disaster’
- Retired Army Major General slams Hegseth’s ‘extremely dangerous’ cut to senior officer ranks
- CNN obtains Jane Doe’s statement given to Cornell police in 2024
- Flydubai passenger: ‘It was like a death in front of our eyes moment.’
- Bond market bust: The 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2002
- Hero passenger, insights on aging, king of the bears: Catch up on the day’s stories
- Paramount-Warner Bros. merger moves forward after judge approves settlement
- GOP senator blocks resolution that criticized Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads
- Early voting data shows emerging signs of a Democratic advantage in the midterms
- What early voting data is showing ahead of the 2026 midterms
- A ‘loophole’ in New York’s rape law may have shut the door on criminal charges in the Cornell case. It’s not the first time
- Troy Jackson apologizes for remarks about Jewish Maine residents’ views of Gaza war
- Hero passenger Yaniv Hayoun recounts to the Israeli prime minister how he and other passengers stopped the alleged attacker
- What Cornell’s Jane Doe told police about the alleged gang rape — and what the DA says he knew
- ‘It’s not just the economy, stupid’: Economist calls for a new focus on the Common Good
- ‘We need to pay much more attention’ to quality of life, not just the economy, says author
- ‘It’s hard to divorce the war from the president’s trade policy,’ says GOP strategist
- Democrats block data centers bill, derailing Senate GOP bid to act on affordability ahead of midterms
- A Democrat hasn’t won a South Carolina Senate seat since 1998. A pediatrician thinks she can change that.
- Powell did not break the law with expensive Fed renovations that incensed Trump, report finds
- Federal regulator probing Trump critic Adam Kinzinger for betting on his own pardon
- DOJ ramps up fight against federal judges after some in Minnesota speak to media about immigration surge cases
OPINION
Opinion — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -40, gpt-6-sol: -63, gemini-3.8-flash: -56, grok-4.7: -62).
The articles behind this score
- 8 in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump on inflation. That’s extremely rare for a president
- Analysis: Trump’s TIME interview shows a president consumed by his own news coverage
- The tweet that defined a decade of Trump
- Bernie Sanders muscled left-wing hopefuls through primaries. Democrats say he needs to do more so they can win the general
- It’s official: Trump’s midterm convention was a bust
- Senator Klobuchar: ‘Don’t call someone a dirtbag when you don’t have your own facts right’
- ‘My client is innocent": Attorney for one of the men accused in the ‘Cornell 7’ defends him on CNN
- An embarrassing moment for the GOP, a defensive witness and other takeaways from Jack Smith’s hearing
- A Google co-founder is spending $100 million to defeat California’s wealth tax. It could become one of his best investments
- 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement
- Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden
- Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes today, too
- 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney
- Trump blames the GOP’s problems on messaging. He’s right — but not how he thinks
- The DMV is good now, actually
- PSA? Scott Jennings struggles to explain what public service Trump’s midterm ads serve
- President Trump, his family and his businesses have made large amounts of money since he returned for a second term
- Starship passes test, fact-checking Trump, tales from the DMV: Catch up on the day’s stories
- President Trump says he’s dead-set against AI regulation. What could change his mind?
- 12 moves that illustrate the brazenness of Trump’s second term — like those taxpayer-funded ads
- More GOP voices are backing away from Trump
- ‘Voters are angry’: Pollster Frank Luntz breaks down the coalition of voters to watch for in the 2026 midterms
- Why the AI boom makes inflation harder to tame
- How did Sudan go from casting off despotic rule to this?
- Opinion: Why millionaires like us want to pay more in taxes
- Why isn't the House Judiciary Committee looking into Thomas?
- Ashley Allison on jobs report: ‘When America gets a cold, Black people get pneumonia’
- Trump just hit an all-time low on inflation: Enten and NewsNight unpack
- Trump touted big economic projects in two key Senate states this week. Both announcements soon crumbled
- Attitudes on the death penalty have changed since Christa Pike was convicted. Using the issue for politics hasn’t
- The 2024 presidential alternative many voters will want
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