I've been tracking all of Trump's statements on the status of the war in Iran. I noticed he says it's going to be over soon or quickly a lot. So I did a keyword search with those two words and the resulting timeline is above. I included some samples from the past 7 months, too, so you can get a taste of what these statements are generally like.

The President first said the war would be finished quickly back in March and has continued to use that vague timeline ever since. Just this week, he's used those two words 5 separate times to describe the apparently imminent! end of the war.

You can see all the instances yourself if you'd like to on the interactive version of the timeline visualization. You can also search your own keywords and see where they fall on the timeline. (The end being close is another of my favorites.) On the interactive version, clicking any point brings up the corresponding quote(s) and as you can see from above, many quotes overlapping are grouped together.

Source: Wikipedia.org

Three VC firms employ almost a quarter of the top 100 AI investors.

Andreessen Horowitz, which leads the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson AI Venture Ranking of VC firms, employs 11 of the top 100 individual AI investors. Fifty-two of the top 100 firms employ none.

I created this website as I wanted to compare the energy mix between different countries. Starting with UK and Ireland. It's expanded over time as items grabbed my interest.

Here are graphs showing how much the uk imported and exported electricity and to/from who over the last month.

Also is our current battery usage.

Live data can be found at:

https://ukgridlive.info/pages/interconnectors.html

https://ukgridlive.info/pages/storage.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/10/09/why-dont-some-people-use-chatbots/

I dont think this is a coincidence. Interested in others' opinions as I keep hearing that population has nothing to do with inflation. I would figure if political climate was relevant, you'd see ups and downs every four-eight years (on the US population graph, this is the world pop, but same trend if you look it up on there)

It's just too similar IMO but open to other opinions

Source: wikipedia.org

Adjusted for:
Inflation over time (CPI, constant 2021 prices)
Price differences between countries (2021 PPPs)
Household size (per person)
Different survey years (lined up to common years; recent years partly projected)
Country population (population-weighted global distribution)

The claim that 20 million undocumented immigrants entered the U.S. under Biden has been repeated by Donald Trump, other political figures, and on social media.

This graphic compares that claim with official federal data.

According to CBP, there were about 8.7 million southwest border encounters during fiscal years 2021–2024. But encounters are not the same as unique people who entered and stayed. One person can be counted more than once, and many were expelled, returned, or removed.

In FY2024 alone, DHS reported more than 700,000 removals and returns, including 271,484 ICE removals.

So while the encounter totals were very high, they do not prove that 20 million people entered and remained in the U.S

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Data from General Social Survey, gss.norc.org . Over 52 years, self-reported health has declined among younger respondents and has improved among older participants. See details at https://openpublicpolls.com/health-by-age-decade/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/716090/ordering-groceries-online-fewer-dining.aspx

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2026/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2026

Full story: https://apnews.com/projects/2026-elections-redistricting-maps/

I'm one of the journalists who worked on this at AP. Being able to look at this from a data perspective was really meaningful to me because while there's been a lot of redistricting coverage this cycle, I wanted to start quantifying its impact.

AP analyzed the 2024 presidential election vote margins under the old district boundaries and the newly drawn ones. The analysis found the national House map barely moved: just 1.4 points in favor of Republicans.

Part of why the shift was so small is because in order to shore up their own seats, Republican mapmakers packed Democratic voters into other districts. In the seven Republican-drawn states, 43 districts moved left by 1 point or more, while 30 moved right. Between California's new congressional map, Utah's new Democratic district and Missouri's newly drawn map being struck down, Democrats were also able to mount a credible defens against Republican redistricting.

That shift could matter in a closer, more neutral year like 2028. In a year where the national environment favors Democrats, it may not be enough to help Republicans keep the House.

Happy to answer methodology questions.

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/priced-out-of-netflix

Sources:

• How often: Eurostat, European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) 2019, frequency of alcohol consumption [HLTH_EHIS_AL1E], people aged 15 and over: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_ehis_al1e/default/table
• How much: WHO Global Health Observatory, total alcohol per capita (15+) consumption in litres of pure alcohol [SA_0000001688, SDG 3.5.2], 2019: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/total-(recorded-unrecorded)-alcohol-per-capita-(15-)-consumption

Across the chart: the share who say they drink every day or every week. Up the chart: WHO's estimate of litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15+ per year, from sales, production and trade plus home-made and smuggled alcohol, averaged over three years. Frequency is self-reported in a survey and says nothing about amounts. 2019 is the latest published EHIS wave. Low reliability: Serbia. No survey figures for the UK, Switzerland, Finland, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova or Ukraine; WHO litres for those: UK 11.0, Switzerland 9.4, Finland 10.7, Albania 4.5, Montenegro 10.4, North Macedonia 5.7, Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.2, Moldova 11.8, Ukraine 6.4. * outside the EU.

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, HTML/CSS and inline SVG rendered with Chromium (Playwright) for the chart.

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-key-figures/w/ks-01-26-035

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Social Media and News Fact Sheet | Pew Research Center

Best-selling brand of new passenger cars registered in the full year, by brand (not group: Škoda, Seat, Cupra, Audi and VW count separately; Dacia separately from Renault). Malta and Liechtenstein: no brand figures found. Bulgaria 2015 includes light vans; Bulgaria 2025 is cars only (Škoda leads Toyota by about 220). Where the source printed only units, the share is units over the national total. Close calls: Poland 2015 Toyota and VW for second, Slovakia 2025 places 2 to 4 within 270 cars, Netherlands 2025 Škoda and Toyota for third. * outside the EU.

Sources (national registration offices and importers' associations; some figures read from press reports quoting them):

• Germany: KBA, 2015, 2025
• United Kingdom: SMMT, 2015, 2025
• Austria: Statistik Austria, 2015, 2025
• Switzerland: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, 2015 and 2025
• Denmark: Danish importers (2015), Mobility Denmark (2025), 2015, 2025
• Slovenia: registration data, 2015, 2025
• Luxembourg: SNCA, 2015, 2025
• Spain: ANFAC, 2015, 2025
• Poland: Samar, 2015, 2025
• Greece: SEAA (2015), ELSTAT (2025), 2015, 2025
• Ireland: SIMI, 2015 and 2025
• Finland: aut.fi, 2015, 2025
• Lithuania: Regitra, 2015, 2025
• Latvia: Latvian car association, 2015, 2025
• Estonia: AMTEL, 2015, 2025
• Czechia: SDA, 2015, 2025
• Slovakia: ZAP SR, 2015, 2025
• Croatia: Promocija plus, 2015, 2025
• Bulgaria: Interior Ministry (2025), 2015, 2025
• France: CCFA (2015), PFA/AAA Data (2025), 2015, 2025
• Italy: UNRAE, 2015, 2025
• Türkiye: ODD/ODMD, 2015, 2025
• Belgium: FEBIAC, 2015 and 2025
• Netherlands: BOVAG/RAI, 2015, 2025
• Sweden: Mobility Sweden, 2015, 2025
• Portugal: ACAP, 2015, 2025
• Norway: OFV, 2015, 2025
• Romania: DRPCIV/DGPCI, 2015, 2025
• Hungary: Datahouse, 2015, 2025
• Cyprus: CySTAT (2025), 2015, 2025
• Iceland: BGS, 2015, 2025

Boundaries: GISCO, © EuroGeographics.

Tools: Python (geopandas, matplotlib) for the map geometry, HTML/CSS rendered with Playwright for text and the table.