Man Driving U-Haul Truck Crashes Into White House Barrier; Arrested On Multiple Charges Including Threatening President Biden [Video]

  • Bias Rating

    -30% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    15% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    -30% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, of Chesterfield, Missouri, was arrested and charged, law enforcement officials said."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Law enforcement sources say the FBI interviewed Kandula and told them he wanted to seize power, take over the government, and kill the president."
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-24% Liberal
"Trump's lawyers argued in court filings that the protective order was extremely restrictive and that what prosecutors were proposing would be an unprecedented and extraordinarily broad muzzle on a leading contender for the presidency of the United States."
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4% Conservative
"Trump -- whose in-person arraignment in the same courthouse last month came with massive security precautions and paralyzed operations there for the day -- appeared virtually from Florida, with lawyer Todd Blanche at his side."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Asked by the judge if he had a copy of the order, Trump said, Yes, sir, and acknowledged he'd reviewed it with his lawyer."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Trump's lawyers filed paperwork earlier this month seeking to have the case transferred to federal court."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Merchan's order also singled out Trump, saying he is allowed to review sensitive Limited Dissemination Materials only in the presence of his lawyers and shall not be permitted to copy, photograph, transcribe, or otherwise independently possess the Limited Dissemination Materials."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"In a court filing last week, the DA's office rejected a request from Trump's team for more information about some of the legal theory behind their case."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"His order held that anyone with access to the evidence being turned over to Trump's team by state prosecutors shall not copy, disseminate or disclose the material to third parties, including social media platforms, without prior approval from the court."
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-14% Liberal
"NBC News has reached out to lawyers for Trump and a spokesperson for the DA's office for comment about Tuesday's hearing."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump made a virtual appearance in New York criminal court on Tuesday for the first time since pleading not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"A stern-looking Trump appeared before Judge Juan Merchan on video to hear the terms of a protective order barring him from publicly disclosing evidence, which the Manhattan district attorney's office will be turning over to his lawyers in the hush money payments case."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"u00a9 Provided by NBC News Image: Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court on April 4, 2023, in New York."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In a statement Tuesday, Cohen said, I have less than zero confidence that Donald will abide by any of the terms of the Protective Order."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Prosecutors had argued the virtual appearance was necessary to keep Trump from releasing confidential information in the case and then claim he hadn't been familiar with the terms of the order."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Trump's attorneys had asked for information, known as a bill of particulars, in a bid to find out more about the evidence against him, including the legal rationale for charging the falsified records as a felony instead of a misdemeanor."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Prosecutors said they've already turned over and will continue to turn over more evidence than they're legally required to, and said Trump's lawyers aren't entitled to more."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Blanche told Merchan that Trump is a leading contender in the presidential race and is concerned his First Amendment rights are being violated."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump has complained that the criminal case brought by the Democratic DA is part of a partisan witch hunt against him, and claimed Merchan, a state criminal court judge sitting in Manhattan, hates me."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office contended the order was necessary in part because of Trump's repeated public trashing of two of the witnesses for their case, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels."
Negative
-70% Liberal
"Prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office contended the order was necessary in part because of Trump's repeated public trashing of two of the witnesses for their case, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels."
Negative
-70% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, of Chesterfield, Missouri, was arrested and charged, law enforcement officials said.
38% : Law enforcement sources say the FBI interviewed Kandula and told them he wanted to seize power, take over the government, and kill the president.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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