Trump Cheers On Violent Attacks on Protesters at Chaotic Rally
Trump paused a South Carolina rally speech to comment on what appeared to be a fight in the crowd.
Rhetorical techniques in the news, October 22, 2026
13 articles, drawn evenly from outlets rated left, center, and right. Each one lists the rhetorical techniques our model found — not a judgment of whether it's true.
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⚠️ This day is not evenly balanced: left 4, center 5, right 4. We had fewer articles available from left and right-rated outlets than from the others — usually because their feeds had already rotated the day's stories out by the time we built this page.
Russia released a US prisoner. What did they get out of it?
Russia released 74-year-old American Stephen Hubbard; Trump says the US gave nothing in return.
The Abdul El-Sayed dirt keeps PILING UP
BlazeTV hosts argue Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a weak Democratic candidate over family controversies.
Berkeley Public Schools Raised Money for Group With 'Fiscal and Personnel Ties' to Palestinian Terror Outfit, House Report Finds
A House committee report says a Berkeley middle school held fundraisers for the Middle East Children's Alliance.
"The Three Words That Explain American Government: 'Right to Sue,'" by Stanford Law Prof. Diego Zambrano
Zambrano argues that Americans have long relied on private lawsuits, not just agencies, to enforce the law.
Ilhan Omar gives head-scratching response when asked if she’s related to ex-husband in first interview since DC raid
Omar, in her first interview since the raid, calls claims she married her brother "insane" and says "Not to my knowledge."
A Free Speech Group at Columbia Canceled an Event About Free Speech Over 'Cornell 7' Article Controversy
A Columbia free speech group canceled a press freedom event after the Sundial ran an article on the Cornell case.
A social media post accuses James Talarico of sexual abuse. Researchers say it’s Russian disinformation
Videos on X accuse Texas Senate candidate James Talarico of sexual abuse; researchers say they are Russian disinformation.
Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract
DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori resigned over Google's military AI contracts with the Pentagon and Israel.
Jailed former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson being investigated over alleged rape inside Parliament
BBC reports the Met is investigating an alleged 2016 rape in Parliament, referred by the PSNI.
NYC high school faces backlash over ‘intifada’ post
Stuyvesant High's socialist youth group co-signed an Instagram post saying 'Intifada Until Victory!' and is facing backlash.
Tiffany, Crowley tangle in only Wisconsin governor’s debate: 3 takeaways
Crowley and Tiffany held their only debate for Wisconsin governor, a race to succeed retiring Gov. Tony Evers.
EXCLUSIVE: They Haven’t Had Water For Years. An Influential Republican Politician May Be To Blame
Cedar Lake residents blame upstream dams on land managed by Glenn Coffee for dropping lake levels and dry wells.
How these articles were chosen
- Sources are a fixed, version-controlled list of outlets, not picked per day.
- Equal numbers are taken from left-, center-, and right-rated outlets, using the AllSides media bias ratings — those labels are theirs, not ours.
- Within an outlet we take the most recent articles from its politics or world section feed. No human picks the interesting ones.
- Live blogs, podcasts, video and photo galleries are skipped — they contain too little text to analyze.
The full source list
Ratings below are AllSides' own labels (retrieved 2026-09-09), not ours. We group Left and Lean Left together, and Lean Right and Right together, which balances direction but not intensity — the exact ratings are here so you can judge that yourself.
- Left: The Guardian (US) (Left), NPR (Lean Left), Vox (Left), Mother Jones (Left), The Guardian Tech (Left), Guardian Science (Left), NPR Business (Lean Left), NPR Technology (Lean Left), Guardian Opinion (Left), Mother Jones Environment (Left), HuffPost (Left), Slate (Left), The Intercept (Left), The Nation (Left), Salon (Left), The New Republic (Left), Common Dreams (Left), The Daily Beast (Left), The Atlantic (Left), Politico (Lean Left), ABC News (Lean Left), CBS News (Lean Left), NBC News (Lean Left), Al Jazeera (Lean Left), Axios (Lean Left), PBS NewsHour (Lean Left), Semafor (Lean Left)
- Center: BBC News (Center), Christian Science Monitor (Center), The Hill (Center), UPI (Center), Reason (Center), Ars Technica (Center), BBC Business (Center), CSM Environment (Center), Reason — Volokh Conspiracy (Center), Christian Science Monitor Commentary (Center), UPI Voices (Center), Bloomberg (Center), Straight Arrow News (Center), NewsNation (Center), Deutsche Welle (Center)
- Right: Fox News (Right), New York Post (Right), Washington Examiner (Lean Right), New York Post Business (Right), Fox Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Opinion (Lean Right), New York Post Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Business (Lean Right), New York Post Opinion (Right), Washington Times (Lean Right), National Review (Lean Right), The Federalist (Right), The Daily Wire (Right), The Daily Caller (Right), Washington Free Beacon (Right), Breitbart (Right), TheBlaze (Right), Just the News (Lean Right), RedState (Right)
Who owns each outlet, and every article we've analyzed from it: the outlets.
Limitations worth knowing
- Semblen detects rhetorical techniques, not left/right tilt.
- The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate language — particularly military reporting and opinion writing in the author's own voice.
- We list the techniques found. A technique flag is not a claim that an article is false, and we don't rank outlets against each other.
- Articles where the model found nothing are not published — there'd be nothing on the page.
- Each article is analyzed once, at the time shown on its page. Outlets sometimes update articles after publication, so a quoted phrase may no longer appear in the current version.
- Findings may include language an outlet is quoting rather than asserting — a politician's attack line, or an opponent's own words. We flag technique wherever it appears, including inside quotations.
- We link to each original article and quote only short phrases as evidence.