February 19th: Trump Mentions Sweden in Rally

Analysis: The Fox News article is clearly the outlier here, supporting the notion that Trump's remarks were related to a possible uptick in crime after Sweden accepted over 250,000 asylum-seekers in the past three years. The rest of the article focuses on crime statistics with little frame of reference: the second paragraph itemizes a five-day stretch of crimes in the city of Orebro, and later an increase in hand grenade attacks from 48 in 2015 to 52 in 2016 is described as a "jump". I think we can all agree zero hand grenade attacks is ideal, but the statistical significance there is dubious.

The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and Fox News pieces all cite Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight as the inspiration for Trump's comments. The first three also include quotes from filmmaker Ami Horowitz, Carlson's guest during the segment, while Fox News does not.

February 22nd: White House Rescinds Support of Obama's Transgender Student Bathroom Directives

Analysis: It seems Transgender issues struck a chord with Breitbart, whose article came in at nearly 6,000 characters, 33% longer than the average piece we've reviewed from them. While coverage from the first five sources was roughly similar (they all depicted a disagreement between Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, among other things), Breitbart's article focused on the cost of potential lawsuits against single-sex institutions.

Most notably, Breitbart is the only source to use quotation marks around "gender identity" and NOT refer to transgender individuals by the gender they identify with: