👤 Madeline Halpert

14 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
14
2026-07-30 – 2026-10-14
Claims per article
31
437 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,575
characters
Writes for BBC News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
43%
Politics
36%
Education
7%
Entertainment
7%
Environment
7%
Most-tagged topics
BBCCornell UniversityNew YorkCornellCongressAmericaAmericanAmericans

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.15 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-13 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Cornell bans all fraternity parties over gang sex assault allegations
30 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · BBC News · Crime & Law
How drunk is too drunk? Cornell rape allegations expose 'loopholes' in consent laws
30 outlets covered this event
2026-10-01 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Cornell case spotlights 'confusing' web of systems for reporting campus assaults
30 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-11 · BBC News · Politics
Trump faces growing backlash over plans to import diesel from Russia
29 outlets covered this event
2026-09-22 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks judge to investigate juror and check his phone
28 outlets covered this event
2026-09-15 · BBC News · Environment
US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
11 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-07-30 · BBC News
Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during tense US Senate hearing about Covid origins
🔮 - Published Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury. He invoked the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution - which says nobody can be "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" - more than 100 times. assertive
2026-08-16 · BBC News
US women in politics spark conversation about balancing family and career
🔮 - Published Last summer, Representative Sara Jacobs would run up to her office to give herself injections of hormones before rushing back to Congress for a session with her fellow lawmakers. assertive
2026-08-16 · BBC News
'I shot Mr Thompson'- What it was like inside court as Mangione pleaded guilty
🔮 After more than a year-and-a-half of intense spectacle and legal wrangling, Luigi Mangione appeared in a federal courtroom in New York on Friday as rumours swirled that he may plead guilty. assertive
2026-09-14 · BBC News
Immigrants held in small outdoor cages at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida, investigators find
🔮 Trump once joked that immigrants held there would need to learn "how to run away" from the reptiles at the facility, which civil rights groups have decried as inhumane. mixed
2026-09-15 · BBC News
US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
🔮 The agency also said it would take steps to prevent future administrations from regulating power plant emissions. assertive
2026-09-22 · BBC News
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks judge to investigate juror and check his phone
🔮 Warning: This article contains distressing details The juror forewoman has claimed in a media interview that Desronvil had expressed reasonable doubt about Clancy's guilt, which would require him to find her not guilty. assertive
2026-09-26 · BBC News
Two arrested after people seen mysteriously emerging from various New York City sewers
🔮 Three men were seen exiting a manhole near the hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly expected to stay for the United Nations General Assembly. mixed
2026-09-26 · BBC News
What is kratom, the 'gas station heroin' alarming officials in the US?
🔮 He discovered the herbal product when he couldn't find relief from doctors and while waiting for surgeries. assertive
2026-10-01 · BBC News
Cornell case spotlights 'confusing' web of systems for reporting campus assaults
🔮 Typically, after a student reports an assault on campus, the university's Title IX office determines whether the alleged behaviour could constitute a violation of policy. assertive
2026-10-02 · BBC News
Cornell accuser was 'failed' by university healthcare system, lawyer says
🔮 This week, Van Houten's office announced it would be reopening the case - less than two weeks after Doe filed her civil lawsuit. assertive
2026-10-07 · BBC News
How drunk is too drunk? Cornell rape allegations expose 'loopholes' in consent laws
🔮 She said she was intoxicated during the alleged incident and could not provide consent. assertive
2026-10-11 · BBC News
Trump faces growing backlash over plans to import diesel from Russia
🔮 , Trump said Russia would then supply 500,000 tonnes in November and one million more after that. assertive
2026-10-13 · BBC News
Cornell bans all fraternity parties over gang sex assault allegations
🔮 Cornell's president said anyone who violated the new fraternity party policy at the New York university would be suspended. assertive
2026-10-14 · BBC News
Brooklyn novelty shop reeling from 'surreal' row with Kelly Clarkson over mechanical bird
🔮 Inside, the shop was packed with cameramen and customers, while passersby looked inside, asking: "Where's the bird?" Art of Play has found itself at the centre of a social media storm since the weekend when Grammy-winning musician Kelly Clarkson complained online that the boutique store would not let her buy a singing and dancing mechanical bird that was perched on the wall. assertive
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