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Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after three-month absence

Rank
Ran
15h
Updated
20d ago
Final
Outlets
19
Regions
5
Countries
10
Languages
5

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Where it travelled

The 10 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

42%37%

  • Americas 8 outlets · 2 countries · 42%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 11%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 5 countries · 37%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 5%
  • International 1 outlet · 5%

The figures

Coverage
19 outlets in 10 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 19 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 public-service, 11 private, 1 not in the current feed list. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Australia, Hong Kong. Europe 5: Austria, Denmark, Lithuania, Netherlands, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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
Danish, German, English, Lithuanian, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article Axios, 14 Sept 2026, 22:10 UTC. First seen 14 Sept 2026, 22:20 UTC. Last seen 15 Sept 2026, 13:26 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 Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
6.67, at the end of the last day measured. 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.
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
14 Sept 2026 (partial) 41 4.21 5 3 – – 1.0
15 Sept 2026 120 6.67 19 10 – – 1.0

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How this was measured

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Started 14 Sept, 22:20 UTC · Updated 15 Sept, 13:26 UTC

Covered by 19 outlets

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Americas 8 outlets

  • ABC News United States
  • Associated Press United States
  • Axios United States
  • CBS News United States
  • CTV News Canada
  • NBC News United States
  • New York Times United States
  • NPR United States

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • ABC Australia Australia
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong

Europe 7 outlets

  • DR Denmark
  • LRT Lithuania
  • NOS Netherlands
  • ORF Austria
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • Sky News United Kingdom
  • The Guardian United Kingdom

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar

International 1 outlet

  • INTLCBC News

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