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Latest filed signals
A scheduled scan and a published card are different events. A quiet scan may publish nothing; an older card is not presented as proof that the latest scan succeeded.
AfD secures 37% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election, marking third consecutive state win. CDU's historic low of 4.9% signals crisis for Merz's government. Far-right party continues to challenge mainstream politics in Germany.
Trump has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from access to the White House, citing their coverage of his administration as 'fake news'. The move comes days after the outlets reported their journalists were denied entry to the White House grounds.
1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; approximately 2 origin clusters inferred from measured full-text reuse.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Houthis have agreed not to attack the United States, despite escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia. The claim comes as the Houthis continue their offensive in Yemen, targeting Saudi allies.
Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, accusing them of spreading 'fake news' and denying access to journalists. The move follows a pattern of crackdowns on media outlets, with critics calling it a threat to press freedom.
Ukraine launched over 1,000 drones at Moscow, targeting a key oil refinery and residential areas. The attack, described as the largest on the Russian capital, caused significant damage and casualties. Moscow's mayor called it an attempt to disrupt the country's parliamentary elections.
Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from accessing the White House, citing their coverage as 'fake news.' The move signals a continued crackdown on press freedom under the second term.
Publisher breadth is not editorial independence. Unknown upstream origins are never counted as independent reporting. Open a filed signal to inspect the pages read and its origin test.
Market and research snapshot
Published source series on a monthly basis. Percentage windows are named; current-month values are marked month to date; nothing is interpolated. Snapshot retrieved .
New papers submitted to arXiv: 20,823 papers/month; +3.5% month-to-date daily pace versus the prior month; month to date; observed through 2026-09; 0 days old at retrieval. arXiv submission statistics
Brent crude oil: 130.8 USD/bbl; +43.6% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-09-15; 5 days old at retrieval. U.S. EIA via FRED
Gold, LBMA PM fixing: 4,348.15 USD/oz; -1.4% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-09-18; 2 days old at retrieval. LBMA
Euro in US dollars: 1.1604 USD; +0.1% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-09-11; 9 days old at retrieval; delayed upstream. Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED
Bitcoin in US dollars: 81,186 USD; +16.8% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-09-19; 1 days old at retrieval. Coinbase via FRED
Nasdaq Composite index: 26,523 index; +0.5% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-09-18; 2 days old at retrieval. Nasdaq via FRED
News-triggered public data atlas
Exact article spans resolve against a versioned public gazetteer before bounded public-data enrichment runs. The current public store contains 209 resolved places and 1700 of 6144 mentions matched to their own coordinates; unresolved names are not moved to a capital.
Heat counts distinct ingested news-event clusters. Grey means no ingested observation, not that nothing exists. A zero is a measured zero. Semantic place confidence is an unvalidated rubric, not a probability.
Places in the current public interval
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America: 20 distinct ingested event clusters, 21 resolved mentions; last observed .
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia: 17 distinct ingested event clusters, 25 resolved mentions; last observed .
Energy infrastructure maps (U.S. Energy Information Administration): 0 public rows. This source is registered, but its event-triggered layers are not yet present in the public atlas database. No record must not be read as no infrastructure. Awaiting event-triggered intake. Primary dataset source
News-resolved places (Natural Earth 10m) (Natural Earth): 209 public rows. Only places resolved from ingested news appear in this table. The bounded gazetteer can omit smaller settlements; absence is not evidence that a place does not exist. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
News place activity (Lightcap): 6144 public rows. Distinct ingested news-event clusters, not all events in the world. Missing is shown as no ingested observation. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
World Port Index (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency): 0 public rows. Public port characteristics. This source is registered for event-triggered ingestion but is not yet present in the public atlas database. Awaiting event-triggered intake. Primary dataset source
Public ports & major pipelines (OpenStreetMap contributors): 6334 public rows. A bounded 80 km event-triggered query for mapped ports and major oil/gas pipelines. OpenStreetMap is contributor-maintained and incomplete; no record is not evidence of no infrastructure. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
Mineral Resources Data System (U.S. Geological Survey): 11919 public rows. Worldwide coverage is incomplete and historical development-status fields may be stale. Geological occurrence records are not reserve estimates. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table