Data and sources
Every feed this site reads, with its licence, how often the source updates, and the result of the last check. The site reads each feed about every 10 minutes. A failed check keeps the last good data and is shown below.
Check official sources. This site is automated and may be wrong or late.
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Not used
- News articles: never copied. Only links to official pages.
- WHO Disease Outbreak News and CDC outbreak pages: linked, not read, because of their terms.
- Smithsonian weekly volcano report: its terms do not allow commercial use.
- Power outage maps: no open feed.
- US State Department press feed: it blocks automated readers. Held until its terms and access are clear.
- UN News and Security Council press, Council of the EU, EEAS, OCHA, ICRC, and Israeli government feeds: terms not yet read. Held.
- ReliefWeb, ACLED, Reuters, AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, IRNA: terms do not allow our use. Rejected.
- Reddit, X and Telegram posts: not used as facts.
- NHTSA vehicle recalls, USDA FSIS recalls, NTSB reports: no stable public feed with clear terms. We may add links later.
- Space launch schedules: free sources limit requests too tightly for a 10 minute job.
- Microsoft 365 status is read from our sister project Is it 364 yet, not from Microsoft directly.
World events: how the headlines are chosen
Official statements come from the UK Foreign Office and the European Commission feeds. They show the title, the party, the time, and a link.
Outlet headlines come from the GDELT Project. We read its public 15 minute files for the last hour. We keep English pages that GDELT tags with one of these themes: armed conflict, election, protest, terror, legislation, national security, or general government. Headlines about the same event are grouped by similar wording. A group needs at least 2 different sites. We show at most 3 sites. We rank a group by the number of sites.
Local newspaper groups often repost one story, so a count can overstate independent coverage. The theme tags and the grouping are automatic and can be wrong. We do not check the claims.
How a score is made
Severity gives up to 50 points: the source's own level, or our reading of a magnitude or wind speed. Size gives up to 30. Freshness gives up to 20 and fades over about a day. Repeated US warnings of one kind lose 10 points each. The score only orders the list. It says nothing about danger to you.
Map outlines
Natural Earth, public domain.