The wire
The world's most significant stories right now, ranked by measurement — not by an editor. Follow developing stories on the timelines, see the analytics boards on the dashboard, watch a topic or country with free email alerts, or see what the world is missing on underreported.
- 2Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reaches 5,000 Cases As It Outpaces Response Efforts At Unprecedented Speed – The Yeshiva World
41 outletsfrom 2 countries17h agotone -8.07DR Congo Ebola OutbreakRepublic of the CongoFrance
- 4Iran says Strait of Hormuz will stay closed till US meets terms
62 outletsfrom 18 countries9h agotone -3.49Iran War & SuccessionSyriatimeline (46)
- 5A triple crisis: Earthquake takes a heavy toll on Colombia's impoverished and neglected region
30 outletsfrom 1 country9h agotone -4.09Colombiatimeline (38)
- 6Trump says U.S. and Canada have reached last-minute deal to delay 50% U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports
51 outletsfrom 3 countriesstate media1d agotone -1.99Trade War & TariffsUnited StatesCanadatimeline (4)
- 7After coming under renewed missile fire, United Arab Emirates suspends trade with Iran
41 outletsfrom 5 countries16h agotone -5.17United Arab Emirates
- 8At least nine killed in hotel fire in India's Kolkata
34 outletsfrom 9 countries20h agotone -4.14India
- 9Hayden Panettiere's Ex-Fiancé Breaks Silence After Her Death
43 outlets2d agotone -3.72UkraineUnited Statestimeline (14)
- 10US Navy destroyer spent four days without power last month in South China Sea
33 outletsfrom 2 countries3d agotone -2.95South China SeaIran
- 11Trump expected to choose White House adviser Heidi Overton for FDA
51 outletsfrom 2 countries1d agotone -0.75United States
- 12Hormuz Still Has an Iranian Throat
40 outletsfrom 19 countries7h agotone -2.79Iran War & Succession
- 13More than 1,000 Afghan refugees have been stuck at a camp in Qatar since 2021
30 outletsfrom 1 country5h agotone -10.00Refugees & DisplacementAfghanistanQatar
- 15Murder probe continues after London house fire kills woman and injures eight
132 outletsfrom 1 country9h agotone -5.34United Kingdom
- 16Frank Beard, drummer for ZZ Top, dies at 77
42 outlets1d agotone -0.52United States
- 18In new filings, Kennedy Center says it won't try to put Trump's name on facade until Sept. 8
130 outletsfrom 3 countries13h agotone +0.24United States
- 19After losing a friend and writing 'Say So,' Dan + Shay are back with the autobiographical 'Young'
68 outlets12h agotone -0.63
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Stories the world's press is converging on — measured, not chosen. Every 15 minutes GDELT observes global news output; headlines covering the same story are grouped into one cluster (rewordings and syndicated variants collapse together), and related developments of one event nest under its lead story. Each headline links once to the original reporting. Ranking is a published formula, not an editor: outlet breadth (log-damped, weighted by a disclosed source-authority list), boosted when a story carries conflict, disaster, or diplomacy themes in its lede, a coded geopolitical event, or extracted casualty and protest figures — then decayed by time since last sighting over a rolling 72-hour window. Tone is the average sentiment of the cluster's articles. “From N countries” counts the distinct home countries of the covering outlets (mapped per domain from GDELT source-country data) and is shown only when enough of a cluster's outlets are mapped to state it honestly. No personalization — the ranking is the measurement, and the formula is open. Lead outlets classified as state-controlled media are labeled, using Wikipedia's perennial sources list (CC BY-SA) plus a small disclosed list of state wires; the label describes ownership, not accuracy, and state wires are already excluded from authority weighting.