Outlet track record
Associated Press (via The Washington Post)
U.S. center-left
The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative collectively owned by roughly 1,400 U.S. news organizations, with no single controlling owner. Independent bias-rating groups place it in the center-left to lean-left range as of mid-2026. Its relationship with the Trump administration turned openly adversarial in early 2025 after the White House banned AP reporters from the press pool over the outlet's refusal to adopt the administration's preferred term 'Gulf of America,' a dispute that triggered First Amendment litigation still unresolved as of June 2026.
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LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun