Arizona Daily Sun media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Arizona Daily Sun as leaning left. We have seen it on 35 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Arizona Daily Sun biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Arizona Daily Sun as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Arizona Daily Sun left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Arizona Daily Sun as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Arizona Daily Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Arizona Daily Sun are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Arizona Daily Sun has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Arizona Daily Sun’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump vetoed CNN, Politico, and MS NOW, impacting audiovisual coverage of his UN trip. In response, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox halted their joint television coverage of Trump, citing solidarity with the banned outlets.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asNetworks suspend pool coverage after CNN ban (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Paramount has settled lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America concerning its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlements pave the way for the $81 billion deal to proceed, pending final court approval.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asParamount to settle lawsuit, clearing way for acquisition (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
US Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice will investigate AI-related crimes but will not be a regulatory body for the technology. He accused Democrats of using the AI debate to influence the midterm elections and prefers a restrained approach to enforcement actions against AI companies.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asBlanche’s campaigning breaks an ethical norm (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Donald Trump's assertion that he controls the $400 million MAGA Inc. super PAC has led to a Federal Election Commission complaint. The Campaign Legal Center argues this arrangement may violate federal law, which prohibits officeholders from directing such political organizations.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asTrump’s Super PAC money comment draws complaint (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to address the European Parliament. This follows a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, a move US President Donald Trump has criticised.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asCarney calls for EU-Canada pact amid ‘ferocious storm’ (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asMcConnell back to Senate after 3 months (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
The board of the Kennedy Center voted to close the performing arts venue due to financial problems and a disagreement about naming the building after President Donald Trump. A judge had previously blocked the venue from being renamed.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asTrump’s name off Kennedy Center, which board votes to close (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to repeal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants. Administrator Lee Zeldin stated the move could save billions for the industry and boost American energy.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asEPA erases limits on power plant climate pollution (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule. The rule would allow immigration officials to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asStates, cities sue over Trump’s green card policy (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Trump pressured officials to 'find' votes, loyalist Republicans sought to deny Biden presidency
Trust 33President Donald Trump pressured state election officials to "find" votes after his 2020 loss, while loyalist Republicans in Congress attempted to deny Joe Biden the presidency during the Electoral College certification. Concerns exist about future attempts to overturn election results.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asHow the US House could overturn the midterm election results (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Brent crude futures reached a four-month peak of $109.97 a barrel following a 6% overnight increase. The surge in oil prices has heightened inflation concerns, leading to a spike in global bond yields and a slump in sharemarkets as investors anticipate further central bank tightening.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asOil prices surge as stocks, bonds wobble (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Prime Minister Mark Carney has convened his cabinet in Banff, Alberta, for two days of closed-door meetings. The discussions are taking place against the backdrop of an intensifying trade war with the United States and an upcoming referendum in Alberta on potential separation.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asCarney mulls further US trade strikes (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asProsecutors charge ICE agent with lying about shooting (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
The US trade deficit in goods and services increased by 24.4% in July, reaching $88.6 billion. This widening gap was driven by a significant rise in imports, particularly of capital goods and computer accessories, reflecting increased investment in artificial intelligence.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asUS trade gap ballooned in July (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Scientists at the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in South Dakota have observed a single particle interaction that could be a sign of dark matter. While the event is statistically unlikely to be background noise, researchers stress it does not meet the threshold for a confirmed discovery.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asScientists hunting dark matter found something strange (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a legal dispute over the regulation of prediction markets. The case could determine whether these platforms are considered sports betting, subject to state laws, or financial derivatives regulated by the federal government.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asCourt ruling may allow Arizona to prosecute online gambling site (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
A federal judge has lifted a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The Supreme Court ruled a previous challenge was premature, but states have filed a new lawsuit arguing the USPS rule interferes with election administration.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asStates sue again to block new US Postal Service rules for mail ballots (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6, 2026, that denied birthright citizenship to children of foreign diplomats. This action followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited a previous order, impacting Trump's campaign promises on citizenship.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asHow Trump works around his Supreme Court losses (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Trump announces potential new Iran sanctions and declares Strait of Hormuz blockade effective
Trust 42Donald Trump said the US could impose further sanctions on Iran, described a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as '100% successful', and argued that increased US oil production had reduced global reliance on the waterway. Oil prices, he said, had not spiked as feared and remained around $84 to $85 per barrel.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asTrump threatens economic pain against those that help Iran (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Iran’s chief negotiator said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the US lifts its naval blockade, releases frozen assets and ends oil sanctions. A vessel was struck in the strait, injuring at least one crew member, as tensions escalate over a June memorandum of understanding.
Arizona Daily Sun reported it asTrump threatens economic pain against those that help Iran (opens Arizona Daily Sun in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Wick CommunicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- azdailysun.com
- Seen publishing on
- azdailysun.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 35
- Reports listed
- 35
- We could read
- 3
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
32 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 3 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 13 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Arizona Daily Sun ran the story anyway.
Across the 35 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Arizona Daily Sun’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 30 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
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