Crux media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Crux in the centre. We have seen it on 15 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Crux biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Crux in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Crux left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Crux in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Crux reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Crux are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Crux has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Crux’s own report linked underneath.
Federal Judge William J. Lafferty rejected the Oakland Diocese's bankruptcy plan on October 2, 2026. The plan was intended to resolve nearly 330 sexual abuse claims and estimated the diocese owed between $160 million and $198 million to survivors.
Crux reported it asFederal judge rejects the Oakland Diocese’s bankruptcy plan (opens Crux in a new tab)
Community pharmacies and informal groups are distributing medicines in Havana as state pharmacies struggle with shortages. Cuban authorities have permitted private pharmacies as part of economic reforms, while citing U.S. sanctions for contributing to the crisis.
Crux reported it asCubans turn to free community pharmacies from Catholic Charities as medicines grow scarce (opens Crux in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Crux reported it asPope Leo has raised the bar on transparency about papal health: Is there a cost? (opens Crux in a new tab)
Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy are to be published this autumn for the first time. The book, titled 'The Private Diary of Pope Francis,' will be released on November 24 in English and four other languages.
Crux reported it asPope Francis’s diaries to be published next month, revealing reflections on Vatican years (opens Crux in a new tab)
Brazil's presidential election is set for October 4, 2026. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his rival Flavio Bolsonaro are accusing each other of scandals in the final days before the vote. The campaign is marked by deep political polarization.
Crux reported it asWhat to know about the viral claim about Brazil’s patron saint jolting a tight presidential race (opens Crux in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has stated that concerns about artificial intelligence are not 'fake news' and warrant serious attention. Speaking aboard the papal plane, he assured he does not sleep in panic mode regarding AI, despite its potential risks.
Crux reported it asContradicting Trump, Pope Leo says artificial intelligence safety concerns not ‘fake news’ (opens Crux in a new tab)
Louis Geri received a sentence of five years and 10 months for bringing more than 100 homemade explosive devices to a Washington D.C. church. The church was preparing for an annual Mass that Supreme Court justices usually attend. Geri's demands included money and an expatriation flight to Japan.
Crux reported it asMan gets 6 years in prison for taking explosives to church hosting annual Red Mass for justices (opens Crux in a new tab)
Pope Leo delivered a speech in France on September 25, 2026, opposing the country’s newly enacted assisted-dying law. He addressed President Emmanuel Macron, warning that profit-driven science could promote surrogacy, organ trade, genetic manipulation and assisted death.
Crux reported it asPope blasts assisted suicide as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures (opens Crux in a new tab)
The Parades Commission has granted permission for the Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road for the first time in nearly 30 years. The decision, which has drawn condemnation from Sinn Féin and welcome from the DUP, imposes strict limits on the procession.
Crux reported it asTensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead (opens Crux in a new tab)
The International Criminal Court convicted Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on four counts of crimes against humanity, including torture and unlawful imprisonment. He oversaw a detention centre where detainees suffered severe maltreatment during the Central African Republic's civil war.
Crux reported it asICC convicts former Central African Republic Islamist militia commander of torture (opens Crux in a new tab)
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle bomb at a mosque within Kohat’s police headquarters on 18 September 2026. At least 20‑21 people died, most of them police officers, and dozens were injured. President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack and Saudi Arabia expressed solidarity with Pakistan.
Crux reported it asPakistan’s bishops condemn attack on police compound, pray for peace (opens Crux in a new tab)
Ruth Wang, a lawyer who defended members of Beijing's unregistered Zion Church, has fled to Taiwan and is seeking help with resettlement. She states Chinese authorities pressured her firm to dissolve or face closure.
Crux reported it asLawyer for China’s Zion Church seeks resettlement help while transiting through Taiwan (opens Crux in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance stated that if the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump had been fatal, he would have suspected a conspiracy. Vance also discussed his interest in 'end times' theology and artificial intelligence during a podcast appearance.
Crux reported it asVance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast (opens Crux in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
Crux reported it asCaritas assessing after flash floods kill more than 100 in Nepal and China (opens Crux in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Crux reported it asCaritas assessing after flash floods kill more than 100 in Nepal and China (opens Crux 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Crux Now Media, LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Dover, Kent County, Delaware, United States
- Official site
- cruxnow.com
- Seen publishing on
- cruxnow.com
- 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
- 15
- Reports listed
- 15
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 9 August 2026
14 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Crux is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 15 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Crux: its report arrived a median of 25 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 9 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 October 2026. Ratings pulled 11 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Crux, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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