About & methodology | infinitenews

What this is

infinitenews is a running, source-linked record of a few large stories that unfold over weeks or months: the Iran war and its regional fallout, the U.S. economy, and the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Each story is a ledger: short dated entries, newest first, each linking the reporting or official documents it rests on.

There is no ranking and no personalization. Every reader sees the same record in the same order. There are no accounts, and nothing on the site asks who you are.

Published by N. Clay AI, Inc.

How to read an entry

Time. Every entry shows U.S. Mountain Time (MT) first, then the local time where it happened. Days and weeks on the site run in Mountain Time.
Confidence. A plain word for how well the claim is supported. See below.
Type. One of five plain groups, so you can follow a single thread:

Military & security: Strikes, attacks, interceptions, deployments, and security incidents.
Diplomacy & politics: Talks, statements, sanctions, nuclear policy, and government decisions.
Shipping, energy & markets: Hormuz and Red Sea shipping, oil and gas, aviation, and market moves.
Civilian alerts: Warnings, alerts, evacuations, and civilian-safety notices.
Background: Context, milestones, and entries that explain how the story got here.

Why it matters. A short, sourced editorial note on significance or what to watch next.
Sources. The named outlets or documents, linked directly.
Permanent address. Each entry has its own page at /events/… that keeps working when the entry is corrected.
Illustrations. Some entry pages carry a drawn illustration. It is labeled as an illustration, is never evidence, and never replaces a source.

Confidence labels

Confidence describes how well a claim is supported. It is a separate question from who made the claim: an official statement can still lack independent confirmation.

Confirmed: Corroborated by independent sources or direct evidence.
Official: Stated by a named government, military, or institution. Not independently confirmed.
Reported: Published by a named news organization. Not yet independently confirmed.
Unverified: Support is thin, unresolved, or disputed. Treat with caution.

The front page leads with confirmed, official, and reported entries. Unverified entries stay in the full timeline, labeled as such.

Sources

Every entry links its sources. Primary documents and major wire services are preferred, and high-impact claims are cross-checked before they are added. When a source's publication time is known, the entry page shows it. The number of sources is not a measure of quality, and a source's identity is not folded into the confidence label.

Order and filters

Entries are ordered by when the event happened, newest first. Filters by type or confidence narrow the record without reordering it, and every filtered view is an ordinary page with its own address. Which story leads the front page is an editorial choice, the same for everyone.

Freshness

Each desk shows when it was last checked. The Iran war desk is checked every two hours. If a desk has not been checked for more than six hours, its pages say Updates paused since and the time of the last check, so an old page never presents itself as current. The latest-entry time and the last-check time are different things: a check can find nothing new.

Scheduled research and summaries

Research runs on a fixed two-hour schedule. Proposed entries must pass source, link, timestamp, time-zone, and duplicate checks before they join the published record, and the site is rebuilt from that record.

When the evidence changes, an automated step may refresh the short summary at the top of a story and up to three things to watch. Each statement links the entries it rests on, and the summary shows when it was refreshed. If a new summary cannot be validated, the previous one stays. Nothing a reader does on the site triggers research or a summary.

Economy desk

The economy desk records each official figure as the agency published it, linked to the release: jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation, consumer prices from the BLS CPI, the Fed's preferred inflation measure and quarterly growth from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the policy rate from the latest Federal Open Market Committee statement.

We do not publish market-implied odds, private forecasts, or consensus estimates. Where an expectation appears beside a figure, it is the FOMC's own Summary of Economic Projections, labeled as such. A date on the calendar is a scheduled release, not a prediction of its number.

Tariffs, sanctions, export controls, trade actions, taxes, spending, benefits, and regulation live in a separate policy record. Each record states its stage (proposed, announced, signed, effective, paused, blocked, challenged, revised, or expired), the legal mechanism, who is directly affected, timing, authority, what is known, what is unclear, and its sources. A proposal is not an effective tariff, and a sanctions warning is not a designation. Settled legal-status claims require the operative government or court document.

Midterms desk

Polls appear one release at a time with the pollster, field dates, population, sample, margin of error, and methodology. We do not calculate polling averages, race ratings, or win probabilities. Candidate portraits come from Wikimedia file pages and are not evidence.

Before Election Day the desk records official dates, a watchlist of races, individual polls, and dated campaign developments. Once counting starts, reported votes, media race calls, and official certification are labeled separately so one is never mistaken for another.

Left and right views

The midterms desk keeps a set of issue baselines that summarize recurring positions in the main Democratic and Republican coalitions, drawn from current congressional and party agendas and checked against recent partisan survey data. The date on each is its research cutoff. It is not a numerical average and does not imply that every member of either coalition agrees.

Candidates, races, pollsters, and institutions also have two-column guides built from named campaigns, officials, surveys, and outlets. When a coalition is split, the guide says so. Both columns are in the page itself, and neither declares a winner.

Corrections

A source-verified correction to a time or a fact updates the affected entry at the same address. A duplicate is merged into one entry, and an entry that its sources do not support is retracted; its old address then explains what happened. Every change is listed on the corrections page with the reason and the evidence. Material changes to what a label means are documented on this page rather than changed silently.

Reader contract

Pages are plain HTML and work without JavaScript. With JavaScript, the site adds relative times (“12 min ago”), a notice when newer entries are published, a dark-mode switch, and search. Search runs entirely in your browser against an index published with the site, so your queries are not sent anywhere.

RSS feeds carry the same dated entries in the same order: all updates, the economy desk (RSS), and the midterms desk (RSS), plus one feed per story.