How to read a story. The left column is about the story itself: the emotion it pushes (the only colored bar), how well its facts hold up (Proven, Solid, Okay or Lite), and its time. A time arrow pointing right is about the future; pointing left, the past. The longer it is, the further away. Anything before recorded history fills the bar in dark gray, and its facts are labeled Theory.

The right column is about the story's standing: its impact (from Global down to a single Person), expert consensus on its main claim (None to Unanimous), and its maturity (Breaking, Developing or Complete).

Each day we take the top stories from four news sources, drop same-day duplicates (keeping the version with the stronger facts), and have separate AI raters score facts and emotion from the same saved text. These are first passes, not verdicts.