A deterministic read of the live news corpus: which conflicts are escalating, which stories multiple independent outlets are carrying, and which topics are taking a larger share of coverage than they were. No model wrote these numbers — they are counts, shares and ratios computed from the corpus, reproducible from the same inputs.
Mentions of distress vocabulary across the last 24 hours of the corpus.
0–10 over a trailing 48 hours. Conflict and economic signal, weighted by how many independent outlets carry it — the breadth term is what stops one prolific outlet manufacturing an escalation. Each entry lists the stories behind its score.
130 conflict · 10 economic · 96 mentions across 65 outlets
153 conflict · 6 economic · 102 mentions across 73 outlets
57 conflict · 2 economic · 58 mentions across 40 outlets
45 conflict · 2 economic · 84 mentions across 54 outlets
45 conflict · 2 economic · 29 mentions across 24 outlets
45 conflict · 1 economic · 72 mentions across 54 outlets
58 conflict · 1 economic · 43 mentions across 29 outlets
63 conflict · 1 economic · 57 mentions across 36 outlets
52 conflict · 0 economic · 37 mentions across 29 outlets
32 conflict · 0 economic · 11 mentions across 11 outlets
21 conflict · 1 economic · 14 mentions across 12 outlets
20 conflict · 0 economic · 10 mentions across 10 outlets
19 conflict · 0 economic · 16 mentions across 9 outlets
16 conflict · 1 economic · 28 mentions across 18 outlets
14 conflict · 1 economic · 15 mentions across 14 outlets
Last 24 hours. Ranked by how many independent outlets carry a story, not how many stories exist — five outlets running one wire item is one story with one source, and counting it as five is how a national wire ends up presented as corroboration.
6 stories · leans: C, CL
4 stories · leans: C
4 stories · leans: C
4 stories · leans: C, CR
4 stories · leans: CL, C
4 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
3 stories · leans: C
Seven-day spike detection: a term's share of the last 24 hours against its share of the days before. Share rather than raw count, because the corpus is a rolling working set and raw counts make everything look like a spike.
Compared against 5 day(s) of our own full-corpus snapshots (12958 stories).
Computed from the Corvus Intel corpus of 3,500 stories at 2026-08-08T03:13:53.178Z. Deterministic. Computed from the Corvus corpus with no model call — every figure is reproducible from the same inputs. Read how the publication works in the methodology, or open the interactive console with per-desk and per-persona filters and CSV/JSON export.
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