The ‘mid-term’ elections are on in the US on Tuesday 3rd of November, so that’s a little box group of three stories regarding the US elections. A couple of days ago the box had a couple of stories about the Israeli elections: Image
(Wayback snapshot: web.archive.org/web/…/www.abc.net.au/)

A week and a half before that it was 4 links regarding Helen Haines: Image
(Wayback snapshot: web.archive.org/web/…/www.abc.net.au/)

So it’s just a group of articles regarding a prominent news story at the point in time.