STRAIGHT NEWS
Straight news — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -35, gpt-6-sol: -48, gemini-3.8-flash: -48, grok-4.7: -52).
The articles behind this score
- ICE imposes new training requirements for officers conducting vehicle stops
- Divided Supreme Court lets Christa Pike execution go forward in Tennessee
- Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
- NY attorney general to review Cornell’s response to gang rape allegations
- ‘I’m voting with my anger’: Cuts to polling places spark backlash in a GOP-run Texas county
- Inspector general investigation discredits Trump’s claims about Federal Reserve renovations
- Wednesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 9.30.26: Paxton quietly laments effects of GOP convention
- Ballroom, ballots and ‘chaos’: The Supreme Court’s busy summer
- Republicans bet a data center bill can help them in November. Democrats say it’s all a ploy.
- ‘I hate it’: Republicans call out Trump for his taxpayer-funded campaign ads
- The U.S. military says its withdrawal of troops from Iraq is complete
- Alabama’s Tuberville worries aloud about airline personnel joining ‘the furry community’
- Cornell case prosecutor: ‘Troubling’ transcript ‘certainly merits reopening’ investigation
- Ballroom, ballots and ‘chaos’: The Supreme Court’s busy summer
- DOJ files judicial misconduct claim against Minnesota judges after New York Times interviews
- Israel-bound plane diverts to Saudi Arabia after struggle in cockpit, Netanyahu says
- Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
- Trump’s DOJ tells court that he is ‘the sole hope’ for Kennedy Center’s survival
- Trump’s DOJ tells court that he is ‘the sole hope’ for Kennedy Center’s survival
- DOJ close to charging Boston-area man in probe of harassing calls to Stephen Miller’s wife
- A running app might have exposed an Iowa candidate’s residency problem
- Supreme Court backs Trump on third-country deportations over Democratic dissent
- Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer now questions whether she killed her 3 children
- “I will not silenced”: Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith defends Trump probes before Senate
- A Kansas Democrat’s red-state pitch: A two-term limit and no Trump trials
- Jan. 6 rioters are pushing for public payouts. Team Trump is likely to oblige.
- Justice Department’s ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation loses another key prosecutor
- Jack Smith Senate Judiciary hearing: Live updates as ex-special counsel testifies on Trump probes
- Democrats make a play for farmers squeezed by Trump’s economy
- Hegseth is set to announce more cuts to the military’s general and admiral ranks
- ICE plans to hire 5,000 new personnel by December
- Trump’s DOJ is deploying election monitors — and Democrats are demanding answers
- ‘Very worried about fatigue’: Long Navy deployments in Iran war raise concerns about accidents onboard
- As another deputy director resigns, Kash Patel’s FBI confronts even more chaos
- Officials are looking into possible new ransom note related to Nancy Guthrie disappearance
- Letitia James named special prosecutor in Cornell sexual assault investigation
- Democrats are making huge gains in Trump country. The battleground states are a different story.
- Ask Jordan: What is the process for adding justices to the Supreme Court?
- A new federal funding year starts today. Some nonprofits supporting crime victims say their funding may stop.
- U.K. police arrest dual British-Iranian national in alleged terror plot
OPINION
Opinion — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -70, gpt-6-sol: -82, gemini-3.8-flash: -78, grok-4.7: -78).
The articles behind this score
- How Trump is sabotaging Susan Collins’ re-election pitch
- Trump administration makes appalling exit from corruption watchdog as Americans grow wary
- Democrats are putting Trump’s tech bro donors on notice
- Angela Paxton’s argument to vote for her husband has to be heard to be believed
- State Department reportedly pushes to redirect human rights funding toward right-wing causes abroad
- When Trump boasts about donating his presidential salary, be sure to read the fine print
- Lies and failed “gotcha” moments: Facts are stubborn things, and Republicans will do well to remember it
- Democrats and Speaker Johnson agree: Republicans are offering voters more of the same
- Patel boasts about the success rate on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, but there’s a catch
- Republicans failed to even try to challenge the substance of Smith’s case against Trump
- On its first day, the White House’s new AI chatbot causes embarrassing troubles for Trump
- GOP’s Eric Schmitt keeps digging after falling into a ditch of his own making
- Russell Brand’s MAHA summit appearance won’t help the GOP’s midterm pitch as the ‘non-crazy’ party
- Mike Johnson picked a terrible time to tell the truth
- ‘Woke’ is dead. ‘Weird’ is back.
- FCC’s Carr brushes off concerns about Trump’s taxpayer-paid election ads
- Eric Schmitt’s pratfall while pursuing Jack Smith shows what a joke the Senate has become
- I’m a former prosecutor. The Cornell 7 rape case was set up for failure.
- Christa Pike’s guilt was never in doubt. Her death sentence should have been.
- MAGA accuses this governor’s welfare-themed ad of being racist — against white guys
- MAGA accuses this governor’s welfare-themed ad of being racist — against white guys
- Ask Joe a question!
- At MAHA Summit, RFK Jr.’s base asks if its champion is selling out
- Judge blocks FEMA from connecting counterterrorism funds and election restrictions
- These 3 Senate races weren’t supposed to be close. That’s a warning sign for the GOP.
- On the economy, Trump tries to tell voters not to believe their lying eyes
- Trump’s ‘Les Misérables’ obsession is rich with irony
- Even some Republicans aren’t on board with Trump’s taxpayer-financed election propaganda
- Joe Scarborough rips Trump’s claim Americans are ‘twice as wealthy’
- The White House says these propaganda ads are PSAs. They’re not.
- Why it’s mind-boggling that Trump may have offered weapons to China
- Trump said he would only appear in competitive areas. So why is he headed to ruby-red states?
- GOP senator suffers embarrassing blunder while grilling Jack Smith in hearing
- Trump reportedly sought input from Musk’s AI chatbot on military strikes
- Trump and his ‘America First’ movement illiberally target Brazil’s presidential election
- The Trump method: Lead with lies, spread them, get caught, keep lying anyway
- Trump hedges when asked about using the Insurrection Act ahead of midterms
- Hegseth taps Musk and Gingrich to help lead ‘Project Meridian’
- Decades later, Trump’s DOJ to review whether Nixon was mistreated during Watergate scandal
- The White House’s taxpayer-financed election ads were shaped by Trump personally
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