News items in the Sunday News were short. Local news, particularly crime news, got big play. Foreign news often came from the wire services and reflected the growing tension between the western democracies and the Soviet Union's aggressive drive to dominate Europe. That week a lot of attention was paid to shortages and the battle over price control.. The controversy over the upcoming atom bomb tests was covered. Harold Stassen's presidential ambitions were taken seriously by the News and other media in 1946.