Durango Herald media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 162 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Durango Herald biased?
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Durango Herald left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Durango Herald reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Durango Herald are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Durango Herald has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Durango Herald’s own report linked underneath.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has stated that Iranians are suffering due to economic hardship and internal repression. She said the people are paying the price for ongoing wars and U.S. sanctions, with some reports indicating this suffering has lasted for seven months and others for 1 1/2 years.
Durango Herald reported it asNobel laureate Narges Mohammadi tells the AP that Iranians paying the price for war and repression (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is attempting to distance himself from former President Donald Trump by voting against his signature legislation and skipping events. Despite these efforts, his re-election campaign faces scrutiny in a district that has shown a Democratic lean in presidential elections.
Durango Herald reported it asThis swing state Republican keeps distancing himself from Trump. It may not save him in the midterms (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Several large left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice groups in the US are experiencing significant funding shortfalls and staffing cuts. This comes as voting commences for an election that will decide control of Congress, raising concerns about the impact on turnout and voter protection efforts.
Durango Herald reported it asVoting groups sound alarm on funding shortfalls that they say could affect midterm turnout (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Yemen's Houthi movement claimed to have launched missile and drone attacks on sensitive sites in Riyadh and Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The group stated the strikes were retaliation for Saudi attempts to hit Sana'a. Saudi Arabia has not officially confirmed the claims.
Durango Herald reported it asSaudi Arabia issues air raid alerts across the country, and other Mideast developments (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
The United States, Denmark and Greenland plan to sign a security pact at the UN General Assembly next week. President Donald Trump says the deal gives the US permanent control over security matters, while other outlets report no sovereign US control. A joint working group will discuss future cooperation.
Durango Herald reported it asTrump has a deal to build US military presence in Greenland while leaving island in Denmark’s hands (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, juror Michael P. Desronvil was the sole holdout against an insanity acquittal, leading to an 11‑1 deadlock and a mistrial declared by Judge William Sullivan. Desronvil maintains prosecutors proved Clancy knowingly killed her three children.
Durango Herald reported it asHoldout juror in Clancy trial didn’t have ‘any doubts’ that she was responsible for killing her kids (opens Durango Herald 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.
Durango Herald reported it asAttorney General Blanche’s appearances at political events blur Justice Department boundaries (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Early in-person voting for the U.S. midterm elections began on September 18, 2026, in Virginia and other states. The elections will determine control of the House and Senate, with key issues including the cost of living and the war in Iran.
Durango Herald reported it asEarly voting begins in US midterm elections that could flip control of Congress (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a keynote address at a conference for the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, which he formerly chaired. He told attendees they had a friend in the Trump White House and highlighted administration actions to alter vaccine guidance.
Durango Herald reported it asKennedy tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump’s White House (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
USPS halts Trump‑linked mail‑voting system, Postmaster General David Steiner says work stopped
Trust 56The United States Postal Service stopped work on a computer system designed to support President Donald Trump's plan to limit mail voting. Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed the pause on Thursday, following the Supreme Court's rejection of the related executive order earlier that week.
Durango Herald reported it asPostal Service chief says work stopped on computer system key to Trump effort to limit mail voting (opens Durango Herald 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.
Durango Herald reported it asKennedy Center says building closed temporarily due to ‘acute risks to public safety’ (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Abu Zubaydah, held at Guantanamo Bay for two decades without charges, appeared at a hearing to review his detention. A U.S. official described him as a trusted facilitator for Osama bin Laden, while his attorneys argued he was never an al-Qaida member and poses no threat.
Durango Herald reported it asMan accused of ties to bin Laden and tortured after 9/11 has 20-year Guantanamo detention reviewed (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a televised address to the nation on September 16 at 6 p.m. Moscow time. The speech is in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place from September 18 to 20. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced the president's speech.
Durango Herald reported it asRussia’s wartime parliamentary election is set to secure the Kremlin’s power (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Russia has begun a three-day parliamentary election, the first since the start of the war in Ukraine. Polling stations opened in the Far East, with President Vladimir Putin's party widely expected to win the 450 seats in the State Duma. Voting is also taking place in occupied Ukrainian territories.
Durango Herald reported it asRussia’s wartime parliamentary election is set to secure the Kremlin’s power (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Russia launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, injuring at least 19 people, including children. Ukrainian forces responded with overnight strikes targeting an oil refinery in Yaroslavl and a military airfield in Rostov.
Durango Herald reported it asRussian barrage of missiles and drones on Ukraine injures at least 19, including children (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv and Odesa, injuring at least 13 people and damaging buildings including residential structures, warehouses, and a gas station. A child was among those wounded in Odesa.
Durango Herald reported it asRussian barrage of missiles and drones on Ukraine injures at least 19, including children (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs or halt trade with the European Union if Canada is granted associate membership. He described the prospect as 'laughable' and a 'hostile act', while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed a desire for Canada to be the bloc's first associate member.
Durango Herald reported it asTrump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a ‘hostile act’ (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stated the United States is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks scheduled for this weekend. The discussions aim to prevent the bifurcation of AI systems between the two countries.
Durango Herald reported it asA global AI safety strategy depends on US-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problem (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
LeJames Norman was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for a 2005 triple murder. On the same day, a Georgia judge issued a stay of execution for Stacey Humphreys, citing a new sentencing law.
Durango Herald reported it asGeorgia death row inmate gets last-minute stay, for now, while an execution in Texas is on track (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could allow President Donald Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil. India's Ministry of External Affairs stated the nation will take necessary steps to protect its trade and economic interests.
Durango Herald reported it asHouse nears vote on Russia sanctions bill named after late Sen. Lindsey Graham (opens Durango Herald 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
We hold no ownership record for Durango Herald.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
- Official site
- durangoherald.com
- Seen publishing on
- durangoherald.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
- 162
- Reports listed
- 165
- We could read
- 7
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
158 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 7 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 40 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Durango Herald ran the story anyway.
Across the 162 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Durango Herald’s on 17 of them. Overall it filed a median of 16 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
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