News
Ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba loses $50M contract after president calls deal ‘outrageous’
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:28am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 3841 stories, and number 180 of 1635 in News.
1File photo: Alina Habba
The former New Jersey US attorney was fired by Concord Partners, a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini.
Just the News didn’t include a summary, so this is New York Post’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Alina Habba
Alina Saad Habba Mildon is an American lawyer and political advisor who was named acting United States attorney for the District of New Jersey in July 2025, having previously served in an interim capacity from March 2025. Her July appointment was ruled unlawful in August 2025 and the ruling was upheld on appeal in December 2025. She announced her resignation from the post on December 8, 2025.4
The story so far
5 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 5
- Newsrooms and sources
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: The New York Times, 9 hr 57 min before anyone else.
Reported by 5 newsrooms.
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
- 5
- Over
- 22.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 19.8 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 6:39am AEDT | The New York Times | 1 |
| 4:36pm AEDT | Daily Mail | 2 |
| 2:28am AEDT | New York Post | 3 |
| 3:47am AEDT | Just the News | 4 |
| 5:22am AEDT | The Hill | 5 |
The New York Times
The Hill
Daily Mail
New York Post
The New York Times
Daily Mail
New York Post
Just the News
The Hill