STRAIGHT NEWS
Straight news — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -15, gpt-6-sol: -25, gemini-3.8-flash: -18, grok-4.7: -22).
The articles behind this score
- Democrats fail to stop Trump from canceling $810M in funds approved by Congress
- Watchdog finds Fed mishandled renovations that Trump tried to oust Powell over
- This park is open to the public. But leave yoga mats at home.
- Fearing AI, workers go back to school seeking jobs that still need a human touch
- Carnegie Mellon nets $3 billion gift, most ever given to a university
- Hegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professors
- Supreme Court allows Trump administration, for now, to resume ‘third country’ deportations
- Immigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assault
- Trans people sue to overturn Kansas law requiring new driver’s licenses
- Lindsay Clancy is back in court Tuesday after her case ended in a mistrial
- Homelessness stubbornly persists even as U.S. cities spend more to end it
- Federal court gives green light to first-of-its-kind Jewish charter school
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow ‘third country’ deportations for now
- Former Virginia youth minister pleads not guilty in sex abuse case
- Good schools fuel the American Dream — and both feel out of reach, poll shows
- Larry Nassar among thousands of sex offenders removed from Michigan registry
- Renée Good’s family sues Trump officials, saying death was ‘not an accident’
- Supreme Court agrees to review mandatory ICE detention policy for immigrants
- What is a botched execution — and what happened in previous cases
- Treasury releases rules for nation’s first federal school voucher program
- Belief that college is very important hits new low, poll finds
- Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
- Bipartisan bill seeks to ban cellphones in schools nationwide
- Why Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer is disputing whether she killed her children
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- Police search a house filled with porn for clues about missing women
- More states weigh pausing gas taxes before Election Day as diesel prices spike
- The government is enlisting AI to help decide what public records you get to see
- Trump says new fuel economy rules will cut car prices. Analysts are doubtful.
- Education Department officially scraps Biden-era Title IX rules
- Judge rules in favor of Wone estate in case related to Dupont Circle killing
- Cornell rape allegations prompt prosecutor to reopen criminal investigation
- Your company’s charity list may have a political screen built in
- U.S. test scores keep falling. But these states are getting it right.
- Want advice on financing college? Sign up for the Paying for College 101 Newsletter
- At every turn, Trump’s ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance
- Supreme Court blocks Missouri congressional map favoring GOP for third time
- Utah university releases independent review of Charlie Kirk shooting
- Ranchers accuse Trump administration of disrupting beef supply, as prices rise
- Government can use Social Security data to identify noncitizen voters, Supreme Court rules
OPINION
Opinion — Clearwater Score
Median of 4 models (claude-sonnet-5: -25, gpt-6-sol: -35, gemini-3.8-flash: -25, grok-4.7: -32).
The articles behind this score
- Lawmakers won’t vote to raise their own pay. What they did instead looks worse.
- Rep. Debbie Dingell: Cheap Chinese cars come at a big cost
- How many House seats will the Democrats win? The polls may already know.
- Trump can fire Hegseth. He can’t easily undo the damage.
- Trump has a point about interest rates
- The Age After Trump is coming. Better buckle up.
- Trump’s fuel efficiency rules do not doom climate goals
- The worst way to cut federal spending
- Republicans and Democrats can agree on ‘dreamers.’ Just look at Texas.
- Andy Beshear: Why Democrats need to talk about God again
- Four strategies for Republicans before the midterms
- Talarico could actually win in Texas. Let me count the ways.
- ‘Let’s go, Brandon’? We’re still fighting for students’ right to say it.
- Trump’s immigration crackdown is testing Latino Republicans
- The chart that inspired California’s billionaire tax campaign
- Heroes
- Saudi Arabia wants America’s nuclear trust. Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
- The good, bad and dangerous in Hegseth’s Pentagon overhaul
- Most of today’s higher prices are Biden-era inflation
- 'Lethality and readiness' have always been cool
- There is hope for bipartisanship. Really.
- The U.S. and Britain’s ‘special relationship’ will survive this
- Trump wants more roads in the forests. Here’s the catch.
- Treating adversaries better than allies is a recipe for isolation
- The Great Awokening is over. This lesbian bar shows why.
- DOGE cost me my job. There’s more to the story.
- These reforms are good politics and good for markets. Bring it on.
- De-escalation with Russia requires a bigger show of Western strength
- Cutting the purse strings
- A nation’s success depends on fiscal space. America is almost out.
- Trump’s sycophants and AI’s flattery define an age of toadying
- America’s military bases are no longer safe
- More money won’t fix a Navy without a strategy
- Trump attacks socialism. His policies tell another story.
- Why you might consider a midlife sabbatical and 5 questions to answer before you do
- Tennessee’s bungled execution reveals a conservative blind spot
- Who can save California?
- ‘Progressives have struggled’: Four midterms strategies for Democrats
- The Trump economy: ‘The greatest story never told’?
- Bring on the midterm GOP carnage. But spare these two senators.
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