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September 26, 2026
Bill Maher Credits Trump Tough Policies for Falling Crime and Drug Deaths
If you follow only left-leaning news, you never heard Bill Maher split credit for falling crime on HBO. Fox News is the outlet that parked a 9 percent violent-crime drop next to that praise.
White House Considers Options to Lower Diesel Costs
Right-leaning media has not reported the White House diesel export-ban review, so those readers miss Bloomberg's figure of $6.53 and The Hill's warning that a ban would raise costs.
US Military Battles Cartel Drones at Southern Border
Daily Wire says the Army has defeated more than 300 cartel drones this year, Fox News lists 15 engagements out of 378 detections, and left-leaning coverage has not reported the drones.
US Envoy Says China Moving to Stop Iran Aid
The Guardian never reports Perdue's claim that China already assured Washington it is not helping Iran. Breitbart reports that assurance without quoting Xi, and without the caveat that critics say the sanctions still fail unless Beijing joins.
Google Employee Quits Over Superintelligent AI Concerns
Business Insider reported a Google DeepMind chip engineer quitting rather than speed up AI. Breitbart did not carry that resignation.
Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP-Favored Congressional Map
Missouri's general election is running on the 2022 map because voting had already started, not because the justices found the Republican districts unlawful — a distinction printed by The Federalist and absent from NBC News.
American Idol Alum Caleb Flynn on Trial for Wife Murder
The Guardian's account of the mistress's testimony skipped Flynn's text that his daughters were an acceptable loss, a line the Daily Wire printed.
Mississippi Authorities Seize Kratom After Ole Miss Student Deaths
A reader of only OAN never learns the names Aidan Hamilton and Robert Strang or NBC News's report that packaged kratom was found with no confirmed link to the deaths.
GOP Dissent Grows Over Iran War as Midterms Near
NBC News put 19 American deaths in its story on the Senate's 49-50 rejection of the Iran war-powers resolution; the Daily Caller wrote the same vote as a midterm test and left the body count out.
Iranian President Pezeshkian Interviewed on US-Iran War
NBC and Breitbart each ran only one of Pezeshkian's Thursday answers on whether Iran wants a deal before the midterms, so the timing story flips by outlet.
US Military Prepares for Potential Action in Cuba
Left-leaning outlets have published nothing on the Army Reserve survey that the New York Post says could ready units in as little as three months for Cuba.
Michigan Credit Union CEO Fired Over AI-Generated Lake America Photo
CNBC's account of Jane Smith leaving Family First never mentions the death threats the New York Post says cut her Halifax trip short.
Trump Presents Xi With Custom Bald Eagle Statue
The BBC pairs the eagle with Xi's two pandas announced that morning; right-leaning dinner stories never mention the pandas at all.
Zelensky Says Trump Approved Patriot License for Ukraine
The New York Post never reports that Trump asked Zelensky to meet Putin in Moscow, which is the whole of the Bloomberg account of the same talks.
Trump Cancels Nearly $1 Billion in Congress-Approved Spending
You can read the Washington Examiner on Trump's $810 million cutoff and never learn that a Republican appropriations chair called the same move unlawful.
Trump Administration Runs Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump TV Ad
Breitbart made CNN's China analogy the whole story of the government ad. The $14,000 price and the Hatch Act accusation sit only in ABC News.
Microsoft Unveils New Copilot Super App
The Verge reports Microsoft will not call its new Surfaces Copilot Plus PCs even though they qualify, a brand kill right-leaning outlets have not covered.
Treasury Yields Rise to 19 Year High in Volatile Week
The 10-year Treasury's 19-year high is so far a story only on the left, and NBC News is the outlet reporting that Bessent's first buyback was followed by higher yields.
Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic
Read CNBC and Friday's ruling is a technical security-risk holding; only the New York Post reports that the D.C. court rejected a retaliation claim a San Francisco judge had already accepted.
White House Defends Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump TV Ads
The Washington Examiner carried Jamie Raskin's Hatch Act complaint without printing a price for the government-paid Trump ad, which ABC News put at $14,000.
Republicans Brace for Major Midterm Election Losses
Right-leaning outlets have not reported the GOP's late scramble at all, even after Cook moved 15 House races toward Democrats — leaving only a left-leaning account that cannot agree whether the pivot is about prices or about Trump.
Trump Rules Out Bessent as Super Intelligence Czar
The Washington Examiner never carried Trump's claim that Bessent should stay at Treasury, so its version never reads as an on-the-record keep.
Third Suspect Arrested in Staged Mississippi Hanging Death
Right-leaning outlets have not reported Tasia Fortune’s death, so the police claim that her hanging was staged over “missing illegal narcotics” appears only in left-leaning coverage such as NBC News.
Abdul El-Sayed Sister Says He Is Not a Capitalist
A Michigan student asked Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, "Do you stand with us?" over Iran. That exchange appears in Fox News and the New York Post and not in left-leaning coverage.
Consumer Sentiment Falls Amid Surging Inflation Fears
The Hill's writeup of the 48.1 reading never leaves cost of living. The same Michigan survey, as carried by Breitbart, names the Iran war, fuel, and trade disputes as why households soured.
Trump Advances Plans for Militarized Triumphal Arch
Only Slate reports a lawsuit claiming Congress never authorized Trump's 250-foot arch, and right-leaning outlets have not covered the project at all.
Men Arrested After Climbing Into New York City Manholes
Right-leaning media has not touched the Manhattan sewer arrests at all, and NBC News never mentions the conspiracy charge reported by the BBC.
Costco to pass on $184 million in tariff refund savings
CNBC never reports that Costco is steering most of a $184 million tariff refund into lower prices, so the refunds read as profit. Fox Business never reports the renewal-rate uptick.
Meta Used Attorney-Client Privilege Hats in Child Safety Lawsuits
Read the New York Post on the attorney-client hats and you never learn Meta already de-designated 65,000 documents from the same fight.
Court Rules States Can Regulate Kalshi Like Gambling
On the court fight itself, CNBC is simply more complete: it places Friday's 6th Circuit loss beside a 3rd Circuit ruling the other way. The NY Post never does.
Wisconsin Police Probe Fraternity Hazing Incident
NBC News described a basement full of injured pledges; only Fox News reported that police were not aware of anyone transported for medical treatment.
Lawmakers Doubt Congress Can Regulate AI Effectively
A Fox Business reader never learns OpenAI had just told more than a dozen organizations its models may have disrupted their sites, the news Rep. Glenn Ivey was citing while telling Congress to get moving.
Celebrities Arrested at Anti Netanyahu Protest in New York
You would not learn from Breitbart that the NYPD said it had already warned people to leave a blocked intersection before taking anyone into custody.
Jay Z Accuser Recants Rape Claims
Jane Doe has recanted the Jay-Z rape claim in a court filing right-leaning outlets have not reported, and BBC and NBC News never ask whether she still says anyone assaulted her at 13.
Nigerian National on Expired Visa Charged With Murder of Football Player
Fox News says the man charged with killing the UMass Dartmouth player got deferred action from Trump in 2025 after overstaying a visa. Left-leaning outlets have not carried the story.
Mixed Polling Results for Democrats in Key States
The Hill puts El-Sayed at 49 percent in Michigan and asserts a New Hampshire lead without a percentage; the Times reports party unity in Maine and Michigan instead, and right-leaning outlets have no version of the polls.
Federal Arrests of Noncitizens for Illegal Voting
Left-leaning outlets have not reported the HSI arrests that Daily Wire says include four noncitizens in Pennsylvania, or Breitbart's New Jersey green-card case.
ChatGPT Gave Advice to Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooter
Mother Jones reports OpenAI's after-the-fact standard that the banned account would now go to police; the New York Post never states that standard.
Federal Court Allows Jewish Charter School in Oklahoma
The Washington Post reports a blocked Jewish charter school got approved and skips the holding. The Examiner is the one that says Oklahoma cannot exclude the Ben Gamla school for being religious.
Canada Synagogue Shooting Ruled Hate-Motivated Crime
Read the BBC on the Belleville synagogue shooting and you get a hate-motivated gunfight. Breitbart is the version that includes police saying the shooter brought combustibles and extra ammo for a mass-casualty attack.
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