Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 2 November to 8 November 2026
FTMQ Politics reads 3,881 headlines from 767 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1Haley Stevens Endorses Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Race
17 outlets · first: WKEF, Sun 07:00 UTC · Top Stories
- 2Democrat Annie Andrews wins South Carolina Senate election over Darline Graham
7 outlets · first: PBS, Tue 14:30 UTC · Top Stories
- 3Donald Trump delivers midterm closing speech at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
5 outlets · first: WTOP News, Mon 01:52 UTC · White House
- 4Donald Trump Prepares Strategy to Govern Through Executive Power After Midterms
3 outlets · first: Firstpost, Sun 12:14 UTC · White House
- 5Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized in Maryland after suffering stroke
3 outlets · first: Politico Congress, Sun 17:30 UTC · Congress
- 6Custodia Bank asks Supreme Court to review Federal Reserve account denial
3 outlets · first: Bitcoin News, Mon 22:53 UTC · Courts
- 7Democrats take full control of US Congress following midterm elections
3 outlets · first: NPR, Tue 22:12 UTC · Top Stories
- 8Trump blames Iran conflict for Republican losses in midterm elections
3 outlets · first: PBS, Wed 05:34 UTC · Policy Explained
- 9Elon Musk political spending fails as Democrats sweep 2026 midterms
3 outlets · first: NPR Politics, Wed 21:11 UTC · Top Stories
- 10California Governor Gavin Newsom commutes sentences of 548 death row inmates
3 outlets · first: BBC News US, Thu 19:50 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- PBS2
- WKEF1
- WTOP News1
- Firstpost1
- Politico Congress1
- Bitcoin News1
- NPR1
- NPR Politics1
- BBC News US1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- The Hill721
- RealClearPolitics160
- Courthouse News Service136
- NPR Politics127
- BBC News US120
- The New York Times104
- The Guardian UK Politics102
- Politico Europe99
- Reuters62
- BBC Europe62
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Source: FTMQ Politics coverage tracker, 2 November to 8 November 2026, https://politics.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-11-02
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Politics wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.