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California bans child marriage, 18th US state to do so

Rank
Ran
22h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
9
Languages
6

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Nile Post Uganda · English 30 Sept, 19:24 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · Italiano (1) · Magyar (1) · Português (1) · Русский (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 30 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Nile Post, 30 Sept, 19:24 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 10:11 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

22%56%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 56%

First movers

  1. Nile Post 30 Sept, 19:24 UTC
  2. Infobae +12h 51m
  3. Times of India +14h 47m
  4. Kommersant +15h 19m
  5. Público +16h 36m

Last to join

  1. The Guardian 2 Oct, 01:43 UTC
  2. NPR 1 Oct, 19:44 UTC
  3. HVG 1 Oct, 14:24 UTC
  4. TGCOM24 1 Oct, 13:22 UTC
  5. Público 1 Oct, 12:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 1 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Uganda. Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: India. Europe 5: Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Russia, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Nile Post, 30 Sept 2026, 19:24 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 03:40 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 01:43 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by ازدواج کودکان در کالیفرنیا ممنوع شد. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 160 7.47 8 8 7 7 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 1 Oct, 03:40 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 01:43 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Nile Post Uganda 30 Sept, 19:24 UTC
    California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

Americas 2 outlets

  • NPR United States 1 Oct, 19:44 UTC
    A new California law bans child marriage. What's the global outlook on the practice?
  • Infobae Argentina 1 Oct, 08:16 UTC
    El gobernador de California prohíbe el matrimonio infantil, aún legal en más de 30 estados de EEUU

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Times of India India 1 Oct, 10:11 UTC
    'Message of hope': California becomes 18th US state to ban child marriage

Europe 5 outlets

  • The Guardian United Kingdom 2 Oct, 01:43 UTC
    California outlaws child marriage, joining 17 other US states
  • HVG Hungary 1 Oct, 14:24 UTC
    Kaliforniában nemsokára tilos lesz, de 32 amerikai államban még ma is legális a gyermekházasság
  • TGCOM24 Italy 1 Oct, 13:22 UTC
    La California vieta i matrimoni ai minorenni ma oltre 30 Stati Usa li consentono ancora
  • Público Portugal 1 Oct, 12:00 UTC
    Califórnia veda casamento a menores, legal em 32 dos 50 estados norte-americanos
  • Kommersant Russia 1 Oct, 10:44 UTC
    Власти Калифорнии запретили детские браки
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