The Sun
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🏢 News Group Newspapers Ltd 📅 since 1964 📍 Wapping
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. — Wikipedia
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⛈️grim+ news
😈gloomier than others
✏️13.1 rewrites per 100
📡no wire copy
📰 1314 headlines in 30 days · 30 on its front page now
🧬 Its fingerprint
🏷️ Outside the partisan webs
Everyone outside the two partisan webs, from the wires to cable news: a big, mixed group that runs more of the stories everyone runs. Not a mark of quality or lean; its look-alikes say more.
📡 Wire: 22nd percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 22% of the 75 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 89th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 89% of them.
👯 Behaves most like The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and The Independent.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (144 of our stories, 1016 headlines), not from its ratings.
The feelings in its headlines
On its front page now
- RAIL DISASTER At least 68 killed & 80 injured after high speed trains crash in Spain as screaming passengers 'blown into air' 📰 High-speed trains collide in central Spain, At least 30 dead
- FAMILY CRISIS Troubling twist after mom's arrest for leaving 4 kids at home for Vegas trip 📰 Florida mom arrested after leaving 4 children home alone during Vegas trip
- COP RUN-IN Truth behind vid of dad peppersprayed & arrested while reporting son, 2, missing
- TWISTED MISS Teacher who had sex with boy, 17, in car & assaulted student, 16, is jailed
- FLEEING DEFEAT Bolsonaro lands in US after Trump grants visa following election chaos 📰 Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami after fleeing Brazil
- HORROR END Dad killed after being sucked into ice-crushing machine at sausage factory
- ISRAEL VOTES Israel faces deadlock in election as Netanyahu set to fall short of majority 📰 Israeli election shows no clear winner as vote count continues
- STILL ON PACE Key takeaway with midterms 2026 officially a week away & early voting surging
- HARRY COLE Why hard-working, hard-hit Maine voters are still loyal to Trump despite energy pinch, Iran war & trade disputes
- ON THE LOOSE Escaped killer on most wanted list as chilling clue could reveal his next move
- GRUESOME FIND Body of missing boy, 14, found in crocodile's mouth with hands & leg missing
- CLASSROOM HORROR Sick teacher 'throws special needs boy, 6, in air & pins him against wall'
- CHI AS WE MIGHT New movement for Illinois counties to split from Chicago & form 51st state
- ZEL'S PEACE HOPE High-stakes peace talks between Russia & Ukraine to happen within days of US midterms, Zelensky tells The Sun
- DEADLY RAGE Woman 'shot romantic rival in car' after texting boyfriend 'f***ing cheater'
- RUSSIAN INFERNO Ukraine strikes Putin's major war factories sparking massive blaze
- PACK OF MONSTERS Real-estate mogul brothers get 30years after sick texts exposed sex crimes 📰 Three Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking
- DEADLY SMASH Six dead & 15 injured after truck crashes into van carrying cancer patients
- RECALL ALERT BBQ staple sold at Kroger rival recalled over potentially deadly allergen risk
- TWISTED 'KILLER' Son 'read dad's last rites before stabbing him & burying body behind home' Richard Saettele, 40, is accused of brutally murdering his father Michael, 63, following a heated argument before hiding his remains under piles of construction debris
- TEACHER SHAME Female teacher caught sexting student as she's banned from schools for life
- FIGHT SHOCK Moment brawl erupts at softball game for 12-year-old girls as parents arrested
- HOPEFUL PROGRESS Health update on wheelchair-bound girl, 7, who survived school massacre
- SIBLING TRAGEDY Brothers, 4 & 5, found dead in reservoir after vanishing from gran's home
- DEATH RIDDLE Cousin of Monaco prince, 29, mysteriously found dead in garden as man arrested
- 'TERROR' ATTACK 'IS terrorist' shot dead after slashing cop in face outside Israeli embassy
- trash talk Over 1million Americans face $4k fines for putting 12 items in garbage cans
- CHILLING CLUES Timeline exposes 'truth' in mom's disappearance after TV fight over ring NEARLY 15 years after Michelle Parker vanished, investigators say newly unlocked phone data helped piece together the hours before she disappeared
- CANNIBAL FEARS 'Serial killer' arrested after 'eating 38 people in 15-year reign of terror'
- FEDS PROBE FBI set to join Thomas Markle child sex abuse probe to help find alleged victims
Headlines it rewrote
FAMILY CRISIS Troubling twist after mom's arrest for leaving 4 kids at home over 5 days for Vegas work trip as dad reveals new details
FAMILY CRISIS Troubling twist after mom's arrest for leaving 4 kids at home for Vegas trip IRENE Miller was seen in police bodycam footage being cuffed as she got off a plane in Florida.
HARRY COLE Why Maine voters are still loyal to Trump despite energy pinch & trade disputes
HARRY COLE Why hard-working, hard-hit Maine voters are still loyal to Trump despite energy pinch, Iran war & trade disputes
RAIL DISASTER At least 64 killed after high speed trains crash in Spain & plunge off track with terrified passengers hurled from seats
RAIL DISASTER At least 68 killed & 80 injured after high speed trains crash in Spain as screaming passengers 'blown into air'
RAIL DISASTER At least 64 killed after high speed trains crash in Spain & plunge off track with terrified passengers hurled from seats
RAIL HORROR At least 50 killed as two high speed trains crash & carriage derails in Spain
DEADLY RAIL SMASH At least 50 killed after high speed trains crash in Spain & plunge off track – as horror footage shows smoking wreckage
RAIL HORROR At least 39 killed as two high speed trains crash & carriage derails in Spain
RAIL HORROR At least 50 killed as two high speed trains crash & carriage derails in Spain
FLOOD HORROR Desperate moment teen girl tries to save pal from flood before both drowned
FLOOD HORROR Desperate moment teen tries to save pal before they're swept to death by flood
PACK OF MONSTERS Alexander brothers get 30-year sentence after 70 women's claims & sick texts exposed real estate mogul trio's sex crimes
FLOOD HORROR Horror moment teen desperately tries to save friend from flood before both die PEOPLE gathered nearby appear to watch as the girls struggle against the current, with voices seemingly joking in the background.
FLOOD HORROR Desperate moment teen girl tries to save pal from flood before both drowned
VOTE CHAOS Brazil election loser 'flees to the USA' after cops tried to seize passports
VOTE CHAOS Brazil election loser flees to the USA after cops tried to seize passports
HOPEFUL PROGRESS Health update on wheelchair-bound girl, 7, who survived school massacre 7-year-old girl who was shot in the face during a deadly elementary school shooting is now in stable condition
PLAIN AS DAY Meet the next-gen 'Prairie Populists:' Scrappy rural Democrat & independent candidates battling for long-held GOP seats
PLAIN AS DAY Meet the next-gen 'Prairie Populists' battling for long-held Republican seats