Software Engineering News
OpenAI released new AI-produced mathematical results via a GitHub repository with Lean proof formalizations and process details, developed with input from an IAS advisory group, from hackernews
OpenAI published a set of new mathematical results generated by an internal frontier model, posting them to a GitHub repository rather than a journal or preprint server. The release follows consultation with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, whose public recommendations shaped the disclosure protocols, including rules for paper revisions and citations.
The repository includes formalizations of many proofs in Lean, the proof-checking language, with more promised as they're completed. Transparency extras cover ten summaries of the model's reasoning, compute estimates framed in ChatGPT Pro usage (about three hours of Pro thinking per result on average), and statistics on attempted problems.
Looking ahead, the company says it will fund workshops, conferences, and special programs on understanding AI-produced results, and is working toward a responsible release of the model itself, with standards for future disclosures to evolve based on community feedback.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, openai.com
A team released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source 2-billion-parameter "decision model" that picks between options and scores confidence instead of generating text, running locally in ~115ms from hackernews
Strands-labs released strands-decider-2b, a small model built for fast, low-latency decisions rather than open-ended generation. Decision models — a category getting attention since TypeSafe AI launched Jev earlier this month — pick between supplied options or assign numerical scores, always producing an answer from the given choices. That trades away coding, chat, and summarization ability for speed, plus something frontier LLM APIs don't offer: a reliability score on each decision.
Architecturally, it's a Qwen3.5-2B torso with the LM head stripped off and replaced by a small pointer head (about a million parameters) that scores each option's hidden state against the answer position, with the torso fine-tuned via rank-16 LoRA. The released model is v19; an earlier "slot head" design underperformed, and the repo documents every iteration along with training data and scripts. On JevBench it ranks 3rd of 33 in its size class for accuracy and 1st of 30 excluding just-over-2B models, with median latency around 115ms on an RTX 3090 and ~153ms on an M3 MacBook.
Early use cases include model routing, tool selection, guardrails, evaluations, and hybrid agents where the decider handles rote choices and an LLM handles the hard ones — cutting cost and latency. The bundled demo shows an agent about to call a weather tool with an invented city; the decider flags the arguments as ungrounded and the agent asks the user instead. It installs via `pip install strands-decider`, with weights on Hugging Face.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, strandsagents.com
OpenAI launched a public beta of a Decisions API that returns typed answers (probabilities, category picks, rubric scores) about text or images roughly 10x faster than the Responses API, from hackernews
The new API, exposed at POST /v1/decisions with only gpt-6-luna available, evaluates a single input against one or more questions and returns structured answers. Three question types are supported: predicate (returns a 0–1 probability that a condition is true), choice (picks one option from a fixed set and returns a probability distribution plus a confidence field), and score (rates input against ordered levels and returns a probability-weighted average that can land between levels). The beta is expected to reach GA in the coming weeks.
Each request bundles a model, shared input (text, or user messages combining text and base64 images — hosted URLs and file IDs aren't supported on this endpoint), and a questions array where independent questions of mixed types can share the input. Dependent decisions require separate calls. Pricing for gpt-6-luna starts at $0.10 per input token, though the article text cuts off before full details.
The positioning is notable: OpenAI explicitly steers developers away from using this for generative tasks, reserving Structured Outputs and function calling for cases needing extracted fields, explanations, or tool calls. Decisions is aimed at classification, routing, and prioritization — things teams currently hack together with prompts and parsing. An example routes a customer complaint to billing with 95% probability, another scores a bug report at 1.1 on a three-level severity scale, and a third flags product photos for damage with 92% probability.
SDK support requires fairly recent versions (Python 3.26.0, JavaScript 7.30.0, among others). Guidance in the docs emphasizes writing questions around observable criteria, including fallback options like "other," and tuning acceptance thresholds against the cost of false positives and false negatives rather than trusting raw confidence numbers.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, developers.openai.com
Version 1.0 of Penguin Mail, a GPL-3.0 Rust email and calendar client for Linux, was released with support for Gmail, Microsoft, and generic IMAP/POP3 accounts, plus an optional local AI assistant, from hackernews.
Penguin Mail 1.0.0 is out for x86_64 Linux under GPL-3.0-or-later. It unifies Gmail, Microsoft 365/Outlook, and any IMAP or POP3 account into one inbox, auto-detecting server settings from your address, and keeps syncing from the system tray with actionable notifications. A built-in calendar offers day/week/month/agenda views across Google, Microsoft, and CalDAV, and contacts come from the same providers or CardDAV.
Security and filtering are handled locally: OpenPGP and S/MIME signing run through your own GnuPG, so the app never holds keys or asks for passphrases, and rules from Gmail filters, Microsoft inbox rules, and Sieve are shown in plain language. Other conveniences include Gmail-style category sorting, scheduled sending with an undo window, and a Hide My Email feature that generates per-signup plus addresses you can disable if they start attracting spam.
The AI assistant is off by default and can run entirely on your machine via LM Studio or Ollama, asking before it sends mail or changes settings. Pressing Ctrl+J lets you ask questions like which sent mail awaits a reply, with the assistant showing each tool call it made. There's no server of its own, no tracking, and no ads — mail talks directly to Google or Microsoft.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, penguin-mail.com
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter open-source embedding model that unifies text, images, audio, video, and code on-device. from hackernews
Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2, the successor to last year's EmbeddingGemma, which surpassed 20 million downloads. The new model maps text, images, video, audio, and code into a single embedding space, and ships under the commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
The 740M-parameter model is built on the Gemma 4 architecture and is modular: text-only workloads need as little as 270M parameters, with optional vision (170M) and audio (300M) encoders. Using Matryoshka Representation Learning, developers can truncate vectors from 768 down to 128 dimensions for up to 6x storage savings. Quantized on a Pixel 11 Pro, it runs in roughly 191MB of RAM for text-only or ~567MB for full multimodal use, with an 8K token context window handling up to 5.5 minutes of audio or 29 images per input.
Benchmark-wise, it leads sub-1B multimodal embedders on MTEB Code and MAEB, with a 9.92-point code improvement over the original model, and outperforms some specialist models more than twice its size. It pairs with Gemma 4 for on-device RAG, sharing its tokenizer and audio encoder for a lower combined memory footprint.
Deployment support spans Google AI Edge MediaPipe, LiteRT, transformers.js/WebGPU for browsers, and standard tooling like Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, and MLX, with fine-tuning guidance from Unsloth and vector storage via Qdrant.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, blog.google
A new open-source tool relinks PS5 executables into native Linux or Windows binaries and maps 87% of its declared system libraries, letting titles run directly on PC hardware without an emulator, from hackernews.
AnyPS5 takes PS5 executables and converts them to the target system's native format, then provides implementations of the console's prx system libraries for dynamic linking — no emulation layer and no separate runtime process involved. It's a relinker plus reimplemented system APIs, which is a faster approach than cycles-accurate emulation.
The project's 87% figure refers only to functions declared in its own library definitions, not every PS5 system function — that total grows as more are declared. So far one game, the 2D platformer Dreaming Sarah, is verified: it runs at a stable 60 fps on a GTX 1050 Ti paired with an i5-7500. The shader recompiler produces SPIR-V, validated via Spirv-Tools when that build option is enabled.
On the practical side, SDL-mapped controllers work with analog sticks and triggers, and keyboard/mouse controls are configurable through an anyps5-input.ini file. Error handling is deliberately strict: unsupported states throw std::runtime_error, print the message to stderr, and terminate the process. The compatibility list documents tested games and known issues.
The project frames itself as an interoperability, research, and preservation tool, and ships no firmware, crypto keys, or proprietary libraries — users must source their own binaries legally. It's licensed under GPLv2 only.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, github.com
nickvasilescu/bops is trending in typescript (72 stars) from GitHub
Bops: a team of AI bots that run your business ops, each with its own computer, email and phone number. bops.bot
Source: github.com
GGGODLIN/cc-mod-image-view is trending in typescript (39 stars) from GitHub
Claude Code mod: thumbnails of pasted images above the prompt instead of bare [Image #n] tags
Source: github.com
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Fonts for the Crafting Apps
Source: github.com
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Source: github.com
saidi-walid-architecte/saidi-walid-architecte.github.io is trending in python (100 stars) from GitHub
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Source: github.com
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Source: github.com
jinrunsen/claude-my-privacy is trending in python (46 stars) from GitHub
MyPrivacy: local name and company pseudonymization for Claude Code, with restoration for tools and assistant reply display.
Source: github.com
AI News
Jump Trading is using OpenAI's models to expand its quantitative research workflows, combining longer-running AI tasks with multiple data sources and human review, from OpenAI Blog.
The article's substance is thin — it's essentially a pointer to a case study about how Jump Trading, one of the larger proprietary trading firms, has folded OpenAI models into its quant research pipeline. The pitch is that AI is being used not for one-off questions but for longer-running workflows that pull together multiple data sources.
Where a human analyst still sits in the loop matters. The framing suggests the firm treats model output as a draft to be reviewed rather than an autonomous decision-maker, which fits how most serious financial shops handle LLMs today.
For anyone tracking AI adoption in trading, the signal here is less about any specific technique and more about validation: quant firms with real money on the line are investing in these workflows. The actual mechanics of how Jump measures impact or guards against model error aren't in the excerpt, so treat the details as marketing-stage until the full case study is read.
Source: openai.com
OpenAI announced new results on open mathematics problems from an internal frontier model, with Lean proof formalizations and research details published on GitHub, from OpenAI Blog
OpenAI says it has new results on open problems in mathematics produced by an internal frontier model — not a released product, but a model still in development. The announcement is thin on specifics about which problems or what level of difficulty, which is worth keeping in mind when weighing the claim.
The company is backing the announcement with artifacts: Lean proof formalizations and research details are up on GitHub. That's the part that can be checked by others, since machine-verified Lean proofs rule out the plausible-sounding-but-wrong output that plagues LLM math work.
The release reads as part of the ongoing contest over AI for formal mathematics, where DeepMind, Math Inc., and others have been staking claims. Until outside mathematicians review the GitHub material, the meaningful signal is that OpenAI chose verifiable proofs as its evidence rather than benchmark scores.
Source: openai.com
OpenAI is partnering with legal tech company Ironclad to train and evaluate AI agents on real contracting workflows, per this announcement from OpenAI Blog.
OpenAI and Ironclad are working together on the hard part of AI agents: getting them to actually do professional work, not just answer questions. Their test bed is contract management — drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, which is a domain full of precise rules, long documents, and consequences for small mistakes.
The collaboration focuses on computer use, meaning agents that operate software the way a person would rather than working through a specialized API. Ironclad supplies the contracting domain expertise and real-world workflow context; OpenAI brings the model training and evaluation side. Together they're building benchmarks and evaluation setups to measure whether agents can handle these multi-step tasks reliably.
The practical payoff, if it works, is AI that legal and procurement teams can trust with substantive contract work instead of treating it as a novelty.
Source: openai.com
Atlassian and OpenAI are deepening their partnership to pair frontier AI models with enterprise knowledge so teams can better plan, build, and deliver work, per an announcement from OpenAI Blog.
Atlassian and OpenAI have broadened their existing partnership, with the stated aim of hooking frontier models directly into enterprise knowledge. The announcement came via OpenAI's blog.
The practical framing is workflow, not just access to models: the companies describe the goal as helping teams plan, build, and deliver work, which points toward AI embedded in Atlassian's collaboration and project tools rather than a standalone chat product.
For a partnership announcement, the details are thin — no product names, pricing, or timelines in the source. Worth watching for follow-up specifics on how Atlassian's data gets connected to OpenAI's models, since that data plumbing is usually where these deals succeed or stall.
Source: openai.com
Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance from Hugging Face Blog
Source: huggingface.co
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. from Hugging Face Blog
Source: huggingface.co
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta from Hugging Face Blog
Source: huggingface.co
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents from Hugging Face Blog
Source: huggingface.co
Former Ramp engineers raised $20M for Melius, a platform for generating creative assets and campaigns, after scrapping their original ad-spend product, from TechCrunch AI.
The team behind Melius — engineers who previously worked at fintech Ramp — has raised $20M to build tools that generate creative assets and campaigns. The first version of the company aimed at helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, but they scrapped that product entirely before landing the new round.
The pivot moves them up the stack: rather than optimizing money already being spent on ads, Melius now builds the assets and campaigns themselves — a crowded but fast-growing space as AI-generated creative reshapes how marketing teams work.
Source: techcrunch.com
Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B, a lightweight open-weights decision model built for real-time content moderation, per TechCrunch AI.
Musubi put out PolicyLM-1.7B on Tuesday, a small decision model designed to handle moderation calls in real time. The announcement came with open weights, so anyone can download and run it rather than waiting on an API.
The 1.7B size is the notable part — small enough to run cheaply at the volume moderation demands, without dragging a giant general-purpose model into every decision. Open weights also mean platforms and researchers can audit how it judges content instead of trusting a black box.
It's a bet that moderation policy enforcement is a workload suited to small, specialized models rather than scaled-down frontier LLMs. Whether it holds up in production is the open question the announcement doesn't answer.
Source: techcrunch.com
Nvidia-backed AI computing company Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation in a round led by Coatue and Blackstone ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, from TechCrunch AI.
Lambda, the AI computing infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, is in the process of raising up to $4 billion. The round values the company at $14.5 billion pre-money, with Coatue and Blackstone leading the investment.
The company has reportedly set its sights on a public listing, targeting a 2027 IPO. The fresh capital would position Lambda as a major player in the competitive AI compute market, where it competes by providing GPU cloud services and hardware to companies training and running AI models.
Nvidia's involvement as a backer gives Lambda a strategic edge in an industry where access to top-tier chips is the defining constraint. With giants like CoreWeave already public and hyperscalers pouring billions into their own AI infrastructure, Lambda's IPO timeline suggests it wants to be ready when the window for AI infrastructure listings reopens.
Source: techcrunch.com
AI agents that shop and book for users are being blocked by websites' anti-bot defenses, and a new standard aims to fix it, from TechCrunch AI
AI agents are supposed to handle chores like shopping, booking flights, and making reservations on your behalf. Instead, many are running into walls. Websites are deliberately blocking them, treating agent traffic like hostile bots rather than legitimate visitors.
That leaves consumers in an awkward spot: they've delegated the task to software, but the sites they need it to visit won't let it through. Anti-bot defenses built to stop scrapers and scalpers can't easily distinguish a personal assistant acting for a real customer from abuse.
The article points to a new standard designed to resolve this — a way for websites to verify and admit trusted agents. If adoption follows, the bottleneck between capable agents and the sites they need to use could start to open up.
Source: techcrunch.com
OpenAI says an unreleased frontier model has solved hundreds of long-standing open math problems in a batch of 722 manuscripts, a release that's drawing both praise and concern over research ethics, from The Verge AI.
OpenAI has published solutions to a large set of previously open mathematics problems, all produced by an unreleased frontier model. The drop comprises 722 manuscripts, organized into 372 "result families" that group related papers together.
The company credits AGMAI, a newly formed independent advisory group of elite mathematicians, with helping communicate the results responsibly. According to that group, the release resolves "hundreds" of open questions.
The news lands amid a longer run of AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs that have impressed — and in places unsettled — working mathematicians. Questions about research ethics and academic conduct around these releases remain open.
Source: theverge.com
Tech companies, including Apple, are redefining what counts as a "recording" as they build AI hardware that constantly senses its surroundings, from The Verge AI.
For most of gadget history, a microphone or camera was straightforward: it was either capturing and saving data or it wasn't, with little gray area in between. Data captured by a sensor — stored on the device, sometimes sent to the cloud for processing — was a preserved instant in time, and that made it a recording.
That assumption is now being tested. AI hardware companies are pushing back on the idea that continuous sensing equals recording, arguing that data processed and discarded in real time — used to answer a question or provide context, but never persisted — doesn't fit the traditional definition. Apple is the latest example: Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported the company is working on a smart home device built around this always-sensing model.
The Verge's argument is that this reframing deserves skepticism. Whether data is "saved" is increasingly a design choice made by the company, not something the user can verify, and the on-device-versus-cloud distinction is opaque in practice. Consumers reasonably expect a device with a microphone or camera to be either recording or not; erasing that binary without clear guarantees hands companies discretion over privacy assumptions people have relied on for decades.
Source: theverge.com
From October 9th, free Gemini users will only get Flash Lite, with Flash requiring a $4.99/month AI Plus plan and Pro reserved for higher tiers, from The Verge AI.
Starting October 9th, free Gemini accounts get locked down to Flash Lite. Right now, free users can pick between Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro — after the change, only the weakest of the three remains free.
The standard Flash model moves behind the $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription, but that tier isn't safe either. It's being downgraded too: AI Plus subscribers will lose access to Gemini Pro, with Google saying it'll email them to confirm when that kicks in.
Once the reshuffle is done, the top-tier Pro model and the "Deep Think" advanced reasoning option will be reserved for Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers.
Source: theverge.com
Some Amazon Echo speakers running Alexa Plus have been randomly singing "lalala" for minutes at a time, even mid-conversation, and Alexa claims no memory of it — from The Verge AI.
Alexa Plus users across multiple Echo speaker models, including the Echo Studio, have been reporting a strange bug: the speakers suddenly start saying or singing nothing but "lalala" on repeat, sometimes for minutes. Reports have piled up on Reddit over the past few weeks — as recently as three days ago — often interrupting users mid-conversation with the assistant.
Videos of the behavior exist, and the eeriest part is Alexa's response when questioned afterward: it has no idea it was doing anything at all.
Amazon says it's aware of the issue and acknowledged it to Android Authority, which also uploaded video footage of the glitch to YouTube.
Source: theverge.com
Mistral launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model, with weights promised by month's end from hackernews
Mistral Large 4 ("le Chonk") is a natively multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters, trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters. It's available now as a preview API on Mistral Studio, with open weights releasing by the end of the month after a red-teaming period with vetted partners and state authorities.
The headline capability is cybersecurity: it tops one Artificial Analysis Cyber Index test at 82% (reproducing and patching real vulnerabilities in open-source software) where several closed competitors score near zero purely because they refuse the task. It also solves 93% of Cybench challenges and leads open-weight models outside China across the index. Mistral frames this as a sovereignty argument — defenders need models that can prove a flaw is real without provider-level refusals blocking incident response, and open weights let organizations run security work on their own infrastructure under their own policies.
Elsewhere it's competitive but not clearly dominant: second to Claude Opus 5 in blind human coding evaluation, ahead of DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen3.8 Max on agentic coding and workflow benchmarks, state-of-the-art on SciCode-Verified among open-weight models, and it edges GPT-6-Astra on visual grounding (42% vs 41% on Dense 200). Training data covered 160+ languages including every official EU language, and Mistral says further details on architecture, benchmarks, and post-training are coming before the weights drop, with ML4 set to anchor a new generation of specialized models.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, mistral.ai
Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model from hackernews
Source: news.ycombinator.com, zohaib.cc
Politics
Coverage by lean: ● covered it · ○ not in this digest's sources
| Story | Left | Center | Right |
| First Maine Senate debate between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson | ● | ● | ● |
| Trump's name and claims placed on U.S. assets draw scrutiny | ● | ● | ○ |
| Trump advisers advised Republika Srpska election campaign amid midterms | ● | ● | ○ |
| Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Former CIA officer pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud against US government | ● | ● | ○ |
| Trump rally remarks suggesting Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego spark backlash | ● | ● | ● |
| Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Trump announces $6.6 billion Anduril submarine shipyard in Baltimore | ● | ● | ● |
| Republicans are spending to aid Darline Graham as the South Carolina Senate race tightens. | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Arrest and bomber withdrawal after RAF Fairford security incident | ● | ● | ○ |
| Democratic campaign fundraising scrutiny amid record third-quarter totals | ● | ○ | ● |
| Democrats challenge Republican Senate seats in tight midterm races | ● | ○ | ● |
| Lawsuit alleges gang rape at Cornell fraternity; outlets frame case differently | ● | ● | ● |
| Disney/ABC sues FCC over early license renewal review | ● | ● | ○ |
| How Alaska’s Fish Became a Defining Issue for the Midterms | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed Dec. 3, email states | ● | ○ | ● |
| Coverage of the 2026 US midterm election races | ● | ● | ● |
| Supreme Court wrestles with energy companies' bid to block major climate suit | ● | ○ | ● |
| Trump focuses on securing red states ahead of midterms | ● | ○ | ● |
| Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84 | ● | ○ | ● |
| Trump says he is weighing suspension of federal gas tax | ● | ○ | ● |
| The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor | ● | ○ | ● |
| Quebec Separatist Party That Promises Another Independence Referendum Wins Election | ○ | ● | ○ |
| Trump boosts dyed diesel availability amid high prices | ○ | ● | ● |
| Unearthed social media posts contradict El-Sayed’s ‘capitalist’ narrative | ○ | ○ | ● |
First Maine Senate debate between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson
Left · NYT † — Frames the race around Collins's vulnerability and her clashes with Jackson over Trump and ICE.
Left · The Guardian — Foregrounds Collins distancing herself from Trump and Jackson's attacks on her Kavanaugh vote and abortion record. Left out: Jackson opposed voter ID and relied on a large binder of notes during the debate.
Center · The Hill † — Highlights Collins spotlighting instances of bucking her party in a neck-and-neck race.
Right · New York Post — Focuses on Jackson's opposition to voter ID, his reliance on a thick binder of notes, and Collins attacking his legislative record. Left out: Jackson's candidacy followed Graham Platner's withdrawal after sexual assault allegations, which he denied.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com), The Hill (center, thehill.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Five Takeaways in New Book From Thom Tillis, Who Turned on Trump from NYT
In “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” Senator Thom Tillis details his regrets about backing President Trump’s agenda.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com)
Trump's name and claims placed on U.S. assets draw scrutiny
Left · NYT † — Foregrounds Rubio's diplomatic response to a Trump map depicting Iceland as U.S. territory, framing it as an awkward flap avoided abroad.
Center · NPR — Places Trump's self-naming efforts in historical context, detailing the rare precedent of presidents naming assets after themselves, from Washington to Hoover. Left out: The NYT reported Trump posting a map showing Iceland as U.S. territory, which NPR's article does not mention.
Right · Blindspot — No lean-right outlet in this digest's sources covered this story.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), NPR (center, npr.org)
Democrats Look Strong in Polls, Thanks to These Voter Groups from NYT
Different blocs are moving left. They could swing key Senate races.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com)
Democrats now favored in key midterm races that could give them control of US Senate, new projections find – as it happened from The Guardian
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Two media giants, Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, have completed their $110bn merger, creating a new entertainment powerhouse, Skydance.
The deal, fiercely contested by several state attorneys general over potential antitrust concerns, formally closed on Tuesday.
Source: The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com)
Dems have edge in midterms, poll shows. And, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to close from NPR
Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close.
Source: NPR (center, npr.org)
What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms from NPR
Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.
Source: NPR (center, npr.org)
With 4 weeks to go, a look at where November's big races stand from NPR
Election Day is four weeks away and people are already voting in the 2026 midterms. Where do things stand in the big races across the country?
Source: NPR (center, npr.org)
What challenges lie ahead for the Democratic Party as midterms approach from NPR
Democrats are feeling optimistic ahead of the midterms, but what challenges remain? NPR's A Martinez asks Devan Barber, who leads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Source: NPR (center, npr.org)
Trump advisers advised Republika Srpska election campaign amid midterms
Left · NYT † — Foregrounded timing and potential conflict of interest, stressing advisers' midterm roles while aiding a Russia-aligned government.
Center · BBC News † — Framed around Trump's claim of a threat prompting B-1 bomber withdrawal from RAF Fairford, focusing on US military posture.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk)
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
Left · NYT — Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads: A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
Left · CBS News — Trump says he'll start paying for ads after pushback over taxpayer funding: President Trump says he'll start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks, using money from his super PAC instead of taxpayer dollars.
The side-by-side comparison wasn't available for this story; each outlet's own headline is shown instead.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com)
Former CIA officer pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud against US government
Left · NYT † — Foregrounds the plea's revelation of a far larger fraud scheme, while noting that some key secrets of the case remain undisclosed.
Center · BBC News — Centers the seized gold bars and luxury assets, detailing the plea deal's restitution terms and the leak of a clandestine human source. Left out: The NYT cited a $145 million fraud figure, while the BBC reports the scam as $200 million.
Right · Blindspot — No lean-right outlet in this digest's sources covered this story.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com)
Trump rally remarks suggesting Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego spark backlash
Left · CBS News — Foregrounded Newsom's condemnation, the 25th Amendment demand, and detailed military significance of the two targeted cities.
Left · NYT † — RSS summary only
Center · BBC News — Balanced backlash and White House rebuttal, noting military installations in both cities and White House attacks on LA Times journalists. Left out: CBS reported Newsom's call for Trump's removal under the 25th Amendment, which BBC did not mention.
Right · New York Post — Led with the White House defense, calling criticism a media freakout, and included partisan jabs and midterm context.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case
Left · NYT — Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case: Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.
Left · CBS News — Olympian accused of damaging Reflecting Pool seeks probe of potential misconduct: David Hearn is asking the Justice and Interior Dept. inspectors general to investigate his arrest and the dismissal of the case against him.
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Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com)
Trump announces $6.6 billion Anduril submarine shipyard in Baltimore
Left · The Guardian — Foregrounded Anduril founder Palmer Luckey's Republican fundraising ties and the company's lack of submarine-building experience, alongside skepticism about Trump's 40% stake claim. Left out: Did not report the administration's claims of thousands of new jobs or officials' framing about countering China's commercial shipping dominance.
Left · NYT † — Framed the announcement around the political dispute between Trump and Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore over credit for the investment.
Center · The Hill † — Centered coverage on Trump's pledge that American taxpayers will receive a 40 percent stake in the planned Sparrows Point shipyard.
Right · New York Post — Emphasized the investment's job creation, America's naval strength against China, and quoted White House officials pushing back on Governor Moore's complaints. Left out: Did not mention Luckey's Republican donations or question the details of the government's claimed 40% equity stake.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), The Hill (center, thehill.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Republicans are spending to aid Darline Graham as the South Carolina Senate race tightens.
Left · NYT — Republicans are spending to aid Darline Graham as the South Carolina Senate race tightens.
Left · CBS News — GOP Super PAC pours $5 million into South Carolina Senate race, sources say: The influx of cash comes as President Trump escalated the attacks against Darline Graham's Democratic opponent, Annie Andrews.
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Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com)
Arrest and bomber withdrawal after RAF Fairford security incident
Left · NYT † — Foregrounded the counterterrorism arrest of a seventh suspect, a 22-year-old London man, in the RAF Fairford investigation.
Center · BBC News — Focused on the Pentagon's hasty withdrawal of about a dozen B-1 bombers and what prompted it, quoting Downing Street. Left out: Details of the 22-year-old London man who became the seventh person arrested in connection with the incident.
Unrated · Biztoc.com † — Framed the bomber removal as ongoing response to lingering threats, presented within a politics and business news broadcast.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: Biztoc.com (unrated, biztoc.com), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk)
Democratic campaign fundraising scrutiny amid record third-quarter totals
Left · NYT † — RSS summary only; available text foregrounds record Democratic Senate PAC fundraising and candidates being outspent by Trump-affiliated outside groups.
Right · Fox News — Foregrounds House GOP investigators' claims that ActBlue's new passport verification amounts to an admission of weak donor checks. Left out: The record $151 million raised by the top Senate Democratic super PAC is not mentioned.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Democrats challenge Republican Senate seats in tight midterm races
Left · NYT † — Foregrounds Democrats' cash disadvantage and internal uncertainty about where to allocate spending against entrenched Republicans.
Right · Fox News — Frames Democratic wave confidence against three potential obstacles: polling errors, negative party brand, and GOP financial advantage.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Lawsuit alleges gang rape at Cornell fraternity; outlets frame case differently
Left · NYT † — Frames the Cornell case as evidence of declining resolution of sexual assault complaints, linking enforcement shifts under the Trump administration to the issue.
Center · BBC News — Centers the case on a legal explainer, detailing New York's consent and intoxication laws, expert debate, and proposed legislation to change the standard. Left out: Does not mention the Trump administration's enforcement of civil rights law on campus sexual misconduct cases.
Right · Washington Examiner † — Presents a columnist's opinion that the shocking allegations could spur Cornell to course-correct its institutional direction.
Right · Fox News — Focuses on backlash against a NYT columnist who linked the case's culture to Trump, stressing the incident occurred under Biden and attacking Letitia James's involvement. Left out: Does not discuss New York's consent and intoxication laws or proposed legislative changes that BBC detailed.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), Washington Examiner (lean-right, washingtonexaminer.com), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Disney/ABC sues FCC over early license renewal review
Left · The Guardian — Foregrounds ABC's constitutional and censorship claims, quoting Wilkinson's chilling-effect arguments and the judge's skeptical questioning of FCC lawyers. Left out: Gives little background on Trump's prior settlement with ABC, the Kimmel suspension, or conservative and industry amicus briefs supporting either side.
Left · NYT † — Frames it simply as an escalating Disney–FCC dispute moving into federal court, per its brief RSS summary.
Center · NPR — Contextualizes the case within Trump's broader pressure campaign on media, citing the Kimmel suspension, settlements, and free-speech advocates. Left out: Did not report the judge's skeptical courtroom questioning or the FCC lawyer's admission that the process is 'not about the licenses'.
Right · Blindspot — No lean-right outlet in this digest's sources covered this story.
† Based on the headline and RSS summary only; the full article wasn't available.
Source: The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com), NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), NPR (center, npr.org)
How Alaska’s Fish Became a Defining Issue for the Midterms
Left · NYT — How Alaska’s Fish Became a Defining Issue for the Midterms: In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to look at the biggest culprit, climate change.
Left · The Guardian — After a deadly paper mill explosion, a community in Washington state looks to a key House race: In a district shaken by deaths of 11 workers, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces a stiff challenge to keep her seat On a misty morning in May in south-west Washington state, Laura Oltmann, a 41-year-old dietitian, h…
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Source: NYT (lean-left, nytimes.com), The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com)
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed Dec. 3, email states
Left · CBS News — Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed Dec. 3, email states: Nidal Hasan is set to die by firing squad in what will be the first military execution since 1961.
Right · Fox News — Trump clears way for Fort Hood terrorist to face Army firing squad nearly 17 years after massacre: President Trump cleared the way for Nidal Malik Hasan to face an Army firing squad nearly 17 years after the Fort Hood massacre that killed 13 people.
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Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Coverage of the 2026 US midterm election races
Left · CBS News — Foregrounded its own Battleground Tracker polling, listing ten Senate and 42 House races with candidate-by-candidate detail in each contest.
Center · BBC News — Provided an explainer-style guide on what the midterms are, key issues, stakes for Trump's agenda, and possible 2028 fallout. Left out: Named no specific Senate or House candidates beyond one Iowa photo caption, unlike the detailed race lists from the other two outlets.
Right · Fox News — Framed coverage around October surprises and its Power Rankings, emphasizing where Democrats play defense and solid Republican states could tighten.
Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground as Mideast crisis engulfs Yemen from CBS News
Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground to Yemen's Saudi-backed military, but oil prices ease despite the Middle East crisis erupting in a battle over control of another key waterway.
Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com)
Supreme Court wrestles with energy companies' bid to block major climate suit
Left · CBS News — Supreme Court wrestles with energy companies' bid to block major climate suit: Eight of the nine justices heard nearly two hours of oral arguments in a case involving an effort by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, to hold energy companies accountable for the effects of global climate chang…
Right · Fox News — Liberal justices look for 'escape hatch' as high-stakes climate case lands at Supreme Court, experts say: Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor repeatedly questioned Supreme Court jurisdiction in Suncor v. Boulder, signaling a possible off-ramp.
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Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Trump focuses on securing red states ahead of midterms
Left · CBS News — Trump focuses on securing red states ahead of midterms: Election Day is four weeks from Tuesday and President Trump is back on the campaign trail, not in an effort to gain ground on Democrats, but to protect what has historically been Republican-friendly territory. Ed O'Keef…
Right · Fox News — Biden conspicuously absent from campaign trail as Obama, Harris step up for midterm push: Joe Biden's limited campaign trail presence contrasts sharply with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris as Democrats fight for midterm majorities.
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Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
Left · CBS News — Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84: Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse.
Right · Fox News — Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House Speaker and admitted child sex offender, dies at 84: The Mark Foley scandal nearly ended Dennis Hastert's career, but federal investigators later uncovered far darker secrets about the former House speaker.
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Source: CBS News (lean-left, cbsnews.com), Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Trump says he is weighing suspension of federal gas tax
Left · The Guardian — Trump says he is weighing suspension of federal gas tax: President floats idea as voter anger over rising costs threatens Republican hopes in November midterms Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was considering suspending the federal gasoline tax, a sign the pres…
Right · New York Post — Trump says he’s considering suspending federal gas tax as states lead effort to lower costs: President Trump said Tuesday that he's considering suspending the federal gas tax to lower costs — after four states already did so ahead of the midterm elections.
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Source: The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor
Left · The Guardian — The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor: Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US’s second-largest city Can the Iran war cost Trump in the US midterm elections? Your questions answered Karen Bass has never lost an ele…
Right · New York Post — Nithya Raman caught in ‘dangerous’ video targeting LAPD chief: ‘Fascist liars’: LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman deleted a campaign video that branded Mayor Karen Bass and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell 'fascist liars.'
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Source: The Guardian (lean-left, theguardian.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say from BBC News vs What happened in the failed execution of Christa Pike - and what next? from BBC News
Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.
Source: BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk)
US resident arrested in connection with deadly British Columbia school shooting from BBC News
US authorities say the 30-year-old has been charged with conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country. Six children died in the attack.
Source: BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk)
Quebec Separatist Party That Promises Another Independence Referendum Wins Election
Center · BBC News — A separatist party just won power in Quebec - what does that mean?: Canada's Parti Québécois has promised it will hold the province's third vote on independence, but said they won’t do so until Donald Trump is out of office.
Unrated · Freerepublic.com — Quebec Separatist Party That Promises Another Independence Referendum Wins Election: The separatist Parti Québécois won Quebec’s provincial election Monday, returning to power a party that has promised another referendum on independence from Canada. The victory by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s party ends e…
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Source: Freerepublic.com (unrated, freerepublic.com), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk), BBC News (center, bbc.co.uk)
Sparks fly in first Iowa governor’s debate: 5 takeaways from The Hill
Accusations of carpetbagging, attacks over family wealth and barbs over culture war issues dominated the first televised debate between Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand as the two vie to replace retiring Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) next month. Lahn and Sand participated in an hour-long debate hosted by KWQC and held at St. Ambrose...
Source: The Hill (center, thehill.com)
Benson, James spar in Michigan gubernatorial debate: 3 takeaways from The Hill vs Watch live: Michigan gubernatorial hopefuls Benson, James go head-to-head in debate from The Hill
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) and Rep. John James (R-Mich.) faced off on the debate stage Tuesday, less than a month before voters decide which of the two will be the Wolverine State’s next governor. During the debate, which Nexstar’s WOOD-TV hosted, the candidates touched on issues specific to the state — such...
Source: The Hill (center, thehill.com), The Hill (center, thehill.com)
Plague in Russia sparks concern, COVID-19 pandemic memories: 5 things to know from The Hill
The death of Russian lab technician researching the plague has set off alarms abroad and at home as observers note resemblances to the conditions that some theorized preceded the COVID-19 pandemic. Reports emerged last week that a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East had died shortly after being hospitalized. The news...
Source: The Hill (center, thehill.com)
Trump says Putin call coming ‘very soon’ as US tracks suspected plague death in Russia from Fox News
President Donald Trump says he'll speak with Vladimir Putin "very soon" as his administration tracks a suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia.
Source: Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Americans in Russia warned State Department has ‘limited ability to help’ as plague concerns mount from New York Post
Russia was already subject to the department’s highest-level travel advisory since before the death of a 28-year-old plague research lab technician in Irkutsk, Siberia, over the weekend, which sparked fears that the deadly pathogen may be on the loose.
Source: New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Trump schedules call with Putin amid Russian plague shock: ‘Very deep discussions’ from New York Post
President Trump said Tuesday that he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin "very soon" about a plague institute worker's death in Siberia.
Source: New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Planned Parenthood Votes adds $1M to ad campaigns in Maine, Michigan from The Hill
Planned Parenthood is investing an additional $1 million in ad buys to boost Democratic Senate candidates in Maine and Michigan. The latest investment in the states by Planned Parenthood Votes — a super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood — will fund digital ad campaigns targeting Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)....
Source: The Hill (center, thehill.com)
Trump boosts dyed diesel availability amid high prices
Center · The Hill — Trump boosts dyed diesel availability amid high prices: {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump seeks to make more diesel available President Trump on Monday night moved to make more diesel available in a bid to lower fuel prices. © AP Photo/Ni…
Right · New York Post — Trump’s red-dye diesel tax waiver could have limited impact on prices – here’s why: The special fuel has the same exact chemical composition as diesel fuel, but it’s dyed red to denote its tax-exempt status and is typically meant only for offroad farming equipment like tractors.
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Source: The Hill (center, thehill.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Foreign adversaries running 'psyop' to fuel anti-AI and anti-data center movement, war official says from Fox News
A Department of War official says foreign adversaries are running psyop campaigns to turn Americans against data centers and AI infrastructure.
Source: Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Veterans of 'unbearable' Chinese factory in Ohio detail brutal work conditions amid top Dem's oversight visit from Fox News
Former Fuyao Glass America Inc. workers in Dayton, Ohio, described unbearable heat, union-busting tactics and a fatal accident to Rep. Ro Khanna.
Source: Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Unearthed social media posts contradict El-Sayed’s ‘capitalist’ narrative
Right · Fox News — Unearthed social media posts contradict El-Sayed’s ‘capitalist’ narrative: Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, faces scrutiny over Detroit DSA ties as he prepares to face Mike Rogers.
Right · New York Post — AOC privately gushes if El-Sayed pulls off victory in Michigan, lefties will win ‘anywhere’: "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez privately gushed that if Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed wins his race, the floodgates will be open for lefties in contests across the country.
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Source: Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com), New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Macron trashes American free speech as riots grip France — internet unloads: ‘Enormous fool’ from Fox News
French President Emmanuel Macron called American free speech "the opposite of free speech" as student protests and school fires sweep across France.
Source: Fox News (lean-right, foxnews.com)
Trump admin launches federal probe into alleged widespread ‘staff-on-student’ sexual misconduct at NYC public schools from New York Post
“Some of the reports indicate that there have been almost 2,000 instances in New York City, where school staff have engaged in sexual misconduct with students,” Assistant Secretary Kimberly Richey said.
Source: New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Xavier Becerra’s misleading immigrant story sparks fury among California Latinos from New York Post
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic frontrunner in the California governor’s race, is being accused of “immigrant stolen valor” after a viral social media post poked holes in his campaign’s family origin story.
Source: New York Post (lean-right, nypost.com)
Washington isn’t broken. It’s just run by insiders who don’t care about you from Washington Examiner
Public cynicism regarding Washington isn’t just a mood; it has become the default setting for American citizenship. When a tiny fraction of the electorate expresses genuine faith in our federal representation, we aren’t dealing with a simple policy disagreement. We are witnessing a wholesale failure of trust. Whether you sit on the Right, the Left, […]
Source: Washington Examiner (lean-right, washingtonexaminer.com)
Mamdani’s ‘hit list’ is pure ‘menis’ — and American politics is intoxicated by it from Washington Examiner
Back in the 1960s, when the Vietnam War was raging, a familiar scenario played out in small towns. During election years, you’d see a “Nixon’s the One!” sign planted right next door to a “McGovern for President” banner. Neighbors would be mowing the grass around their respective slogans, stop to wipe their brows, and wave […]
Source: Washington Examiner (lean-right, washingtonexaminer.com)