KARE media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KARE in the centre. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KARE biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KARE in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KARE left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KARE in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KARE reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KARE 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 KARE has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KARE’s own report linked underneath.
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has been elected governor of Minnesota, becoming the state's first female governor. She defeated Republican Lisa Demuth in a race significantly influenced by a large-scale fraud scandal in state-run social services programs.
KARE reported it asGov.-elect Sen. Amy Klobuchar on historic midterm win (opens KARE in a new tab)
Federal officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and FBI Director Kash Patel, announced a crackdown on fraud in Minnesota. Multiple law enforcement agencies executed warrants and raided locations across the Twin Cities.
KARE reported it asTrump administration officials hold presser discussing 'War on Fraud' in St. Cloud (opens KARE in a new tab)
The Department of Justice has requested a federal court keep a search warrant for Rep. Ilhan Omar's home sealed. Prosecutors argue that releasing the warrant could jeopardise an ongoing immigration fraud investigation. A coalition of media organisations is petitioning to have the warrant unsealed.
KARE reported it asJustice Dept. won't unseal search warrant of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home (opens KARE in a new tab)
Jackie Flavin and Mike Moyski, whose daughter Harper was killed in the Annunciation shooting, endorsed Amy Klobuchar for governor. They accused Republican nominee Lisa Demuth of lying about allowing a vote on gun safety legislation.
KARE reported it asParents of Harper Moyski backing Amy Klobuchar for governor (opens KARE in a new tab)
Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis plans to close at the end of the year. The establishment began offering free meals in January following a shooting incident and has since served over 30,000 meals.
KARE reported it asModern Times Cafe to close after nearly 16 years (opens KARE in a new tab)
Federal agents have issued subpoenas to relatives of Rep. Ilhan Omar as part of a criminal investigation into her family's immigration history. The probe follows a search of Omar's Washington, DC home.
KARE reported it asRep. Ilhan Omar's phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal probe, AP source says (opens KARE 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.
KARE reported it asAP Source: Justice Dept. charges ICE officer with lying to investigators in January shooting (opens KARE 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.
KARE reported it asMinnesota Attorney General sues U.S. Postal Service over new mail voting rules (opens KARE in a new tab)
A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s 2025 lawsuit against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, ruling the demand for the state’s voter rolls amounted to a 'fishing expedition'. The case was one of 23 similar lawsuits filed by the DOJ.
KARE reported it asCourt rules against Trump administration lawsuit over Minnesota voter rolls (opens KARE in a new tab)
Blaine council member's car vandalised with middle-finger photos ahead of Minnesota House bid
Trust 62A Blaine City Council member and Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives found her car covered in middle-finger photos on Saturday morning. Security footage shows at least four people involved, but police have not determined if the vandalism was politically motivated.
KARE reported it as'It is very disturbing': Candidate for Minnesota House has vehicle vandalized with middle finger photos (opens KARE in a new tab)
A federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants, affecting roughly 1,100 people. The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed courts' ability to review TPS terminations, and is part of a broader effort to roll back protections for multiple countries.
KARE reported it asJudge won't block ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants (opens KARE in a new tab)
The Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into left-wing groups in Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents. The probe, which included undercover surveillance and financial subpoenas, targeted unions and activist organisations but concluded without evidence of wrongdoing. Fifteen organisers were later indicted under a national security directive.
KARE reported it asAG Keith Ellison and others say newly released documents of surveillance efforts during Metro Surge are concerning (opens KARE in a new tab)
Michele Tafoya secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Minnesota on 11 August 2026, overcoming the party-endorsed Adam Schwarze. No Republican has won a Senate seat in the state since 2002. Her campaign focuses on fraud prevention, law enforcement support, and tax cuts.
KARE reported it asMichele Tafoya wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate (opens KARE in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Tegna Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
- Tegna IncMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Official site
- kare11.com
- Seen publishing on
- kare11.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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
13 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. KARE is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KARE: its report arrived a median of 13 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KARE, 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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