Associated Press (via The Hill)

The Associated Press is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by its U.S. member news organizations, making it structurally distinct from outlets controlled by a single corporation or billionaire. Independent media-bias analysts generally rate it as center to slightly left-of-center. Its relationship with the Trump administration's second term has been openly adversarial: the White House banned AP reporters from the Oval Office and Air Force One in February 2025 after AP refused to adopt the administration's preferred geographic terminology, and AP was placed on the White House's official list of 'biased' outlets.