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September 25, 2026
Oil Prices Fluctuate Amid US-Iran Talks and War Concerns
If you only read right-leaning outlets you would not know oil had moved on U.S.-Iran talks this week. CNBC and Bloomberg covered it and could not agree on the direction of the move.
Sinema Ex-Boyfriend Damages Her Home in Rampage
NBC News logs the Arizona rampage as ending in a recognizance release. The New York Post logs the same booking as electronic monitoring after deputies said Ammel was fighting in the courthouse hallway.
Anthropic AI Discovers Potential Gene-Editing Enzyme
Leave CRISPR out, as the New York Times does, and Anthropic's announcement looks like a routine first result instead of a gene-editing claim.
Flock Safety Faces Scrutiny Over License Plate Data
You can read Fox Business on Flock and never hear that a researcher posted the company's own camera map; that account, including a later takedown demand, is only in The Intercept.
Trump Cozy With Xi Jinping Despite Past Accusations
The New York Post can stomach Trump's red carpet for Xi but draws the line at Mamdani; the New York Times never mentions the mayor.
NYC Kitten Rescue Defends No MAGA Adoption Policy
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told Fox News a NYC kitten rescue should abolish its no-MAGA adoption ban, and left-leaning outlets have not covered the dispute.
Protesters Disrupt Trump State Dinner for Xi Jinping
Breitbart reported an attempt to smash banners as Xi Jinping's motorcade passed a D.C. bridge. Left-leaning outlets have not covered those protests, and Fox News did not mention the clash.
Congressional Candidate Arrested at Anti-Netanyahu Protest
Fox News says 80 to 100 people were arrested after they would not leave the roadway. The Hill never tells readers that anyone blocked a street.
Chile President Kast Addresses UN
Kast's first-ever UN address as head of state is in Breitbart and missing from Bloomberg, which never names the General Assembly.
US Mortgage Rates Top 7 Percent for First Time Since 2025
If you only read left-leaning coverage, the 7 percent mortgage rate comes with a wage squeeze and no monthly price. The New York Post is the outlet that prices the extra cost at $276.
Republicans in Red States Distance Themselves From Trump
You would miss Iowa Republicans voting to end the Iran war unless you read Slate or Vox: right-leaning outlets have not reported the distancing at all.
US and China Diverge on AI Safety During Xi Visit
Xi's talks with Trump are an AI-supremacy story only on the left, and even there Slate calls the race a "distraction" while the New York Times keeps score.
Flock Safety Faces Scrutiny Over Surveillance Practices
The Washington Examiner covers the Flock hearing as a CEO no-show over privacy. Only CNBC reports Hawley's claim that about $3,000 a year buys access to a national camera database.
YouTube Rolls Out New AI Tools for Creators and Users
The Verge never mentioned YouTube's new custom feeds, even as it reported the company would not share view-lift data. Right-leaning outlets have not covered the AI launch.
Trump FDA Pick Sidesteps Questions on IUDs and Abortion
Right-leaning outlets have been silent on Overton's FDA confirmation hearing, which ABC News opened with Cassidy asking if the measles vaccine is lethal.
California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff to Return Seized Ballots
The Washington Examiner still presents a 45,000-vote problem as the reason the ballots were taken. The Guardian calls that complaint unfounded and never sizes the alleged gap.
Stanford Apologizes for AI-Altered Student Photo Changing Race and Gender
A reader needs both Fox News and NBC News to hear Stanford's full reply to the altered dining-hall photo. The apology, the investigation, and the ban never appear in the same story.
Oracle Issues Force Majeure on New Mexico Data Center
Oracle's force majeure notice on Project Jupiter is a left-only story so far, and CNBC's Stargate-and-midterms version never appears in Business Insider.
Trump State Dinner Menu for Xi Jinping Revealed
Fox News told readers the Xi state dinner is a pescatarian affair with no red meat; the New York Times never mentioned steak and never printed the soup or the dessert.
Dozens Arrested Protesting Netanyahu UN Speech in New York
The Guardian is the only coverage of the UN protest arrests, and it put more than 100 people in custody, including Susan Sarandon.
Iowa Teacher and Student Die on Field Trip
A reader of ABC News never learns that crews had already stopped looking overnight before the child came out of the reservoir, a sequence Fox News puts on the record.
Saudi Arabia Warns of Global Houthi Threat
Fox News is what tells you the intercepted missiles came after Trump declined to strike the Houthis. Bloomberg and the New York Times give you the intercept only.
New York Sues Polymarket Over Illegal Gambling Operation
Read only the New York Post and Polymarket U.S. looks like an unlicensed casino with no federal regulator; CNBC is the outlet that puts the CFTC turf war on the page.
Bipartisan Bill Proposes Federal Film Tax Credit
The Hill is the only outlet that put the film credit at 20 percent of eligible domestic labor costs; skip that piece and the size of the bill never appears.
Mamdani Rejects Joining Protests Against Netanyahu
Fox News reports Mamdani campaigned on New York serving an ICC arrest warrant; the Times coverage of the UN-visit clash never mentions that pledge.
AI Battles Between Hospitals and Insurers Raise Costs
Vox is reporting class actions against UnitedHealth, Humana, and Cigna over AI claim denials. Those suits, and the Times' claim that hospital and insurer AI are pushing medical costs higher, have not appeared in right-leaning coverage.
Trump Hosts Xi Jinping as Press Ban Dispute Continues
Trump called the Xi ceremony "made for Television" and blamed CNN, while only the Guardian reports that Fox News and the other pool networks also withheld live video until CNN's reporter was restored.
White House Pressures Democrats on Permitting Reform Deal
Left-leaning readers never learn the House already passed permitting reform 221-196, or that Capito says the Senate's own deal was negotiated before Democrats deferred the vote past Election Day.
Trump Bans Media Outlets from White House
If you read only National Review, you would not know a judge had already ordered the White House to restore the credentials, or that Vox said the banned reporters were kept out nearly 11 hours after that order.
More Americans Hold Positive Views of China
Pew's finding that more Americans view China positively than in 2021 is appearing only in left-leaning coverage, where the New York Times uniquely blames Trump's trade wars.
USDA Recalls 167000 Pounds of Raw Meat Products
Right-leaning readers would miss the USDA's 167,000-pound raw meat recall entirely, while The Hill and The Washington Post cannot agree whether the packages skipped inspection or carried false marks.
Measles Outbreak Spreads in Pennsylvania With New Deaths
Pennsylvania has four measles-associated deaths on record while the CDC's public tracker shows one. That mismatch is absent from right-leaning coverage.
CNN Staff Panic Over Paramount Merger
The Intercept never mentions the CNN layoff panic that Breitbart hangs on a $6 billion savings plan.
UK PM Burnham Reluctant to Raise Taxes or Rejoin EU
Bloomberg led with Burnham standing by comments that alarmed investors about bond markets; that defense is absent from Breitbart.
Younger Americans View Capitalism Negatively in New Poll
The Hill never printed Gallup's 43 percent national rating for socialism and ran an NBC youth-and-capitalism poll instead; Breitbart and the Examiner never mentioned that NBC poll.
Senate Advances Klomp as RFK Jr No 2 at HHS
The Hill can walk you through Klomp's 15-12 committee win and never mention drug companies. The Examiner is the account that treats those pharmaceutical pricing deals as the reason Democrats resisted the same nomination.
Canada Prepares for Remote Risk of US Military Action
BBC and The Hill ran Mark Carney's warning of an "extreme tail risk" of U.S. military action; right-leaning outlets have not reported the interview.
AI Shopping Agents Raise Scam and Privacy Risks
Business Insider never mentions the multi-bank warning Fox Business led with, so its readers miss both the alert that AI shopping agents could raise scam risk and the push to require disclosure at checkout.
Trump Beef Import Policy Angers Ranchers
Politico covers the beef fight as farm-state election trouble and skips the tariff cut meant to lower prices; the Washington Examiner covers the tariff cut and angry ranchers and skips that a rollback is being weighed.
GOP Billionaire Withholds Senate Donations Over Trump Priority
Mellon froze Senate Republicans while still sending twenty million dollars to a House super PAC, a split only Daily Wire puts in front of the reader.
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