Breaking The News media bias and reliability
The bias data this site ingests places Breaking The News in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 29 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Breaking The News biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Breaking The News in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Breaking The News left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places Breaking The News in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Breaking The News reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes Breaking The News as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What Breaking The News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Breaking The News’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump has acknowledged that the war with Iran, alongside the cost of living, played a role in the Republican Party's defeat in the midterm elections. The conflict's financial toll was also noted.
Breaking The News reported it asVance: Reason why we lost midterms is the war (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
HSBC announced a 32% rise in third-quarter pretax profit to $9.6 billion, alongside a share buyback programme of up to $1 billion. Revenue reached $18.6 billion, slightly below forecasts, while net interest income increased.
Breaking The News reported it asHSBC pre-tax profit jumps 32% to $9.6 billion in Q3 (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American teacher, has been released by Russia after nearly five years of detention. He was convicted of serving as a mercenary. The release was announced by former President Donald Trump, who stated Russia demanded nothing in return.
Breaking The News reported it asRussia releases US citizen Stephen Hubbard (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump announced a $1.5 billion Pentagon investment for semiconductor production in North Carolina. The announcement was made at a political event and coincided with plans for a new industrial mineral plant in the same state.
Breaking The News reported it asTrump: Pentagon to invest $1.5B in North Carolina chip production (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that a batch of interceptors purchased for Ukraine might not have been delivered. He denied any deliberate political directive to withhold the weapons, suggesting technical or allocation reasons instead.
Breaking The News reported it asRubio: US not denying interceptors to Ukraine (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
European leaders plan to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reduce his public criticism of US President Donald Trump. They fear his sharp remarks could further damage Washington-Kyiv relations, potentially impacting aid and support.
Breaking The News reported it asZelensky says he feels 'betrayed' by Trump's actions (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign from her post as US ambassador to Greece. White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed the request during her inaugural press briefing. The State Department had been investigating complaints about Guilfoyle's management style and use of benefits.
Breaking The News reported it asWH confirms US ambassador to Greece will resign (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump stated Kimberly Guilfoyle was not a member of his family and that he did not like the allegations against her. The White House had requested her resignation as US ambassador to Greece.
Breaking The News reported it asWH confirms US ambassador to Greece will resign (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
The UK and EU will hold their annual leaders summit on November 20 in Brussels. The meeting aims to sign new agreements on agri-food trade, emissions trading, and a youth mobility scheme. Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated closer ties are necessary due to Russian meddling.
Breaking The News reported it asEU to host British PM for summit on November 20 (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited her "bold and inventive oeuvre" that draws on classical tradition to create new forms for contemporary literature.
Breaking The News reported it asNobel Prize for literature goes to Anne Carson (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Estonia has banned the transit of grain from Russia and Belarus through its territory. The measure, announced by Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, aims to pressure Russia over its military aggression and reduce its revenue streams.
Breaking The News reported it asEstonia halts transit of Russian, Belarusian grain (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
The US Department of Energy will offer 40 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The release aims to lower fuel prices, which have risen due to the war in Iran and Russia's war in Ukraine. Companies bidding for the oil must return more later.
Breaking The News reported it asUS to release up to 40M barrels from SPR (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
The Trump administration has removed Syria from a list of countries banned from importing U.S. weaponry. This action is part of a process of easing sanctions on the new Syrian government led by interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Breaking The News reported it asUS to release up to 40M barrels from SPR (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
The White House is pressuring European countries to release emergency oil and diesel reserves to combat rising global prices. The US is also considering a ban on diesel exports to control domestic fuel costs before the November midterm elections.
Breaking The News reported it asUS to release up to 40M barrels from SPR (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Donald Trump announced plans to create an 'AI Force' and appoint an AI czar, comparing the initiative to the Space Force he established. He stated his administration would not hinder AI industry growth.
Breaking The News reported it asTrump to form AI force, pick new AI 'czar' (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
The US military's Central Command stated that over one billion barrels of oil and more than 2,000 commercial vessels have transited the Strait of Hormuz in recent months. CENTCOM also reported that Iran has exported no oil during this period.
Breaking The News reported it asUS: We supported 1B barrels of oil leaving Hormuz (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
US forces intercepted and sank a vessel in the Pacific Ocean, which they stated was used as a refueling station for drug trafficking operations and was linked to the Ecuadorian criminal organization Los Choneros. The crew was rescued and will be handed over to Ecuadorian authorities.
Breaking The News reported it asUS intercepts refueling ship linked with drug trafficking (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
John Thune announced he is willing to explore a ban on diesel fuel exports, citing record‑high domestic prices and limited supply from conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. The United States is the world’s top diesel exporter, while Russia has already halted its shipments.
Breaking The News reported it asThune: 'Open to considering' diesel export ban (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Germany's Defence Ministry will begin mandatory postings for up to 1,000 soldiers to its brigade in Lithuania this autumn. The move comes after recruitment efforts failed to attract enough volunteers for the unit, which is intended to be fully operational by the end of 2027.
Breaking The News reported it asPistorius may order sending more troops to Lithuania (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated that trilateral negotiations concerning Ukraine could potentially resume in October. He stated that Russia does not rule out this possibility, though no specific dates have been set.
Breaking The News reported it asKremlin does not rule out trilateral talks in October (opens Breaking The News in a new tab)
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Breaking The News on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Breaking The News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Vienna, Austria
- Seen publishing on
- breakingthenews.net
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 29
- Reports listed
- 29
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
29 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Breaking The News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 29 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Breaking The News: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
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