Rep. Julia Letlow wins Louisiana GOP Senate primary runoff ^40.6%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 6/28/2026, 1:51 AM

Post Hoc (False Cause) 29.9% - Framing Effect 20.3% - Negativity Bias 17.1%

Rep. Julia Letlow won Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary runoff Saturday, defeating former Rep. John Fleming. Her win comes as a victory for President Donald Trump, who has endorsed her repeatedly throughout the race — including before she was even officially running. Letlow made history in 2021 when she became the first... more

Raman to advance in Los Angeles mayor’s race, taking on Bass in November ^44.4%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 6/8/2026, 11:57 PM

Negativity Bias 30% - Framing Effect 14.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 13.1%

Los Angeles Council member Nithya Raman will advance to the November general election in the mayoral race to face the incumbent, Karen Bass, after overtaking ex-reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the primary, The Associated Press projects. Raman has steadily trended upward in the vote count since Election Day, and she overtook Pratt on... more

Epstein prison guard testifies before House Oversight Committee ^9.8%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 5/18/2026, 7:06 PM

Negativity Bias 14.5% - Confirmation Bias 11.1% - Availability Heuristic 9.9%

A corrections officer who was on duty when Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York City prison cell in August 2019 testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Tova Noel told federal investigators in 2021 that she believes she was the last person to see the convicted sex offender alive at the Metropolitan Correctional Center... more

Senate Democrats call out the Trump administration for hypocrisy on IVF ^61%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 5/5/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 36.3% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 32.2% - Biased Writer Voice 21.3%

More than a dozen Democratic senators are demanding the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandon plans to roll back protections for workers seeking fertility treatments, according to a letter shared first with MS NOW. In the letter sent to EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas on Monday night, the senators — including Majority... more

Suspect in correspondents’ dinner shooting charged with attempting to assassinate Trump ^6.5%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane, Fallon Gallagher, Erum Salam - 4/27/2026, 9:00 PM

Post Hoc (False Cause) 7.2% - Recency Bias 4.7% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 4.4%

The suspect in the security breach at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, appeared at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., for his initial court appearance, less than 48 hours after he was... more

Melania Trump denies all but “casual” ties to Epstein and Maxwell ^0%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 4/9/2026, 9:00 PM

Negativity Bias 30.1% - Availability Heuristic 15.8% - Hasty Generalization 13.7%

First lady Melania Trump denied any ties to convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday in remarks that even President Donald Trump told MS NOW he was not aware of beforehand. “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” the first lady began in remarks delivered from the... more

DOJ investigating Biden-era prosecutions of anti-abortion protesters, draft report shows ^0%

MS NOW - By Carol Leonnig, Julianne McShane - 4/8/2026, 8:51 PM

Negativity Bias 31.6% - Appeal to Authority 28.6% - Unattributed Quote 26.9%

The Trump Justice Department is expected to release a report as early as next week concluding that the prior administration politically targeted abortion opponents because of their religious beliefs when prosecuting them for blocking access to abortion clinics, according to three people familiar with the report and a draft reviewed by MS... more

How a Reddit page cracked the case of the Brown shooter ^0%

MS NOW - By Julianne McShane - 12/20/2025, 5:06 PM

“It is a bit surreal that the place where you go to share memes or trash-talk about NFL teams is being useful for something of this magnitude,” a user whose post led to a critical tip told MS NOW. On Monday night, a lifelong Rhode Island resident and avid Reddit user logged on to the Providence subreddit to share an FBI poster showing... more

Justice Department releases documents from its Epstein investigation ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, Julianne McShane - 12/19/2025, 9:04 PM

The Justice Department on Friday released a trove of documents related to multiple years of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the first of a series of disclosures that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said will continue on a rolling basis — contrary to the law Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed that mandates the... more