News
US Treasury chief Bessent moved to military base over alleged Iran threats
- Newsrooms
- 14
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
5 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 13 to 14 newsrooms by 1:08am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we know
1File photo: Scott Bessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved from his Washington-area home to a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to a report published Tuesday. The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter, reported that Bessent recently relocated after American offic
South China Morning Post didn’t include a summary, so this is Today Wire’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Scott Bessent
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman and government official serving as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury since 2025. Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro trading firm. He is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury, becoming the highest-ranking LGBTQ government official in American history.4
The story so far
14 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 16
- Newsrooms and sources
- 14
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (3 in the last three hours, 5 in the three before).
First with it: Today Wire, 2 hr 59 min before anyone else.
Reported by 14 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 14
- Over
- 10.6 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 3.9 hr
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Sources and credits
- 1
Photo: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- 2
South China Morning Post: US Treasury chief Bessent moved to military base over alleged Iran threats
- 3
Today Wire: Scott Bessent Moves To Military Base After Iranian Threats Against His Life
- 4
Background: “Scott Bessent”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
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The New York Times
The Straits Times
The Hindu
The Globe and Mail
Middle East Eye
Just the News
Townhall
Hindustan Times
CNBC
The Times of India
CNA
The West Australian
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