Associated Press (via PBS NewsHour / Las Vegas Sun)

The Associated Press is a U.S. nonprofit news cooperative collectively owned by roughly 700 member media organizations, with no single corporate or government controller. Independent reviewers across the political spectrum rate its coverage as lean-left, citing patterns in story selection, word choice, and framing — though it scores highly for factual accuracy. Since February 2025 AP has been in an ongoing conflict with the Trump White House, which banned its reporters from Oval Office pool access and publicly labeled it biased, after AP refused to adopt the administration's preferred 'Gulf of America' terminology.