Joe Sommerlad
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on personal and human elements: Frequently explores the personal lives and emotional impact of events on individuals (e.g., family of Charlie Kirk, student witness to his death).
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 201
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Aol
- Top 5K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 4, 2026
Latest articles
Trump team scrambles to fix AI chatbot after it rejected his favorite conspiracies (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. President Donald Trump unveiled the U.S. government’s new artificial intelligence prompt to much fanfare this week, only for his team to have to scramble to fix it when it immediately began to disagree with him. The president explained America.gov would serve as the public’s first port of call when seeking answers to questions about their government, its agencies and services
One demographic is âripping the heart out of Trumpâs presidency,â pollster warns (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. President Donald Trump is being deserted by white non-college-educated voters ahead of the midterms, a phenomenon that is âripping the heart outâ of his presidency, according to CNNâs data analyst Harry Enten. Speaking to John Berman on CNN News Central Tuesday, Enten was asked why the president had promised a new $15 billion steel plant in Iowa Monday. âThe target gr
Death row inmate says she feels ‘kinship’ with Lindsay Clancy on eve of execution - AOL (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. A woman set to be put to death in Tennessee this week has expressed sympathy for Lindsay Clancy, saying she feels a sense of “kinship” with the Massachusetts woman tried for fatally strangling her three children. Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse, admitted to killing Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, at their home in Duxbur
Mounting GOP anger at Hegseth could hamper his $1.5T bid for military funds: report (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is struggling to drum up congressional support for a mammoth $1.5 trillion budget request to run the Pentagon next year amid unease over the Iran war, according to a report. Semafor reports that the secretary is “running into a wall of congressional GOP resistance” in the Senate as he seeks to secure the funding, with his fellow Republicans unha
Trump has filled his Cabinet with âhead-noddersâ and âyes peopleâ (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. President Donald Trumpâs Cabinet is composed of âhead-nodders,â âtrue believersâ and âyes peopleâ who are often tasked, at a whim, with fixing problems outside of their area of expertise, according to a report. A lengthy Politico profile of the president, focusing on his relationship with his secretaries, quotes a senior administration official as saying of his
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 5K sites
For Aol, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.