MPR News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give MPR News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 45 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is MPR News biased?
The rating organisations do not give MPR News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 MPR News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give MPR News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 MPR News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for MPR News 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 MPR News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with MPR News’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump stated that Republicans would have won the midterm elections in a landslide if he had been on the ballot. A White House official echoed this sentiment, attributing the results to candidate quality and Trump's absence from voting.
MPR News reported it asDemocrats win the U.S. House and take unified control of Congress (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Democrat David Crowley has won the Wisconsin governor's race, defeating Republican Tom Tiffany. Crowley will be the first Black governor in the state's history. The election took place in a state described as a battleground.
MPR News reported it asDemocrat David Crowley declares victory in Wisconsin governor's race over Trump ally (opens MPR News in a new tab)
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.
MPR News reported it asDFLer Klobuchar wins Minnesota governor's race (opens MPR News in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
MPR News reported it asMinnesota early voting approaching 900K (opens MPR News in a new tab)
On Tuesday, Americans vote in the 2026 midterms that will decide whether Republicans keep their narrow House majority and Senate seats. Trump faces low approval ratings, a war with Iran and a costly cost‑of‑living squeeze, while polls show 54% of his base would back him even if he loses.
MPR News reported it asMinnesota early voting approaching 900K (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Prime Minister Mark Carney stated he had a 'good conversation' with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding trade. Carney indicated that Canadian and U.S. representatives will work in the coming weeks to finalize a trade deal, which he said would create jobs and boost affordability.
MPR News reported it asCanadian Prime Minister Carney reports progress in trade talks with Trump days before U.S. midterms (opens MPR News in a new tab)
November is National Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the diverse histories and cultures of hundreds of tribal communities across the U.S. Reports highlight artists, families returning to subsistence gathering, and early childhood programs.
MPR News reported it asFrom salmonberry harvests to traditional tattoos, Native culture shines in November (opens MPR News 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.
MPR News reported it asTrump administration officials hold fraud news conference in St. Cloud (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
MPR News reported it asPatrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and 'X-Men' fame, dies at 86 (opens MPR News in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
MPR News reported it asThese are the House races to watch in the 2026 midterm election on Nov. 3 (opens MPR News 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.
MPR News reported it asDOJ declines to release search warrant in Ilhan Omar investigation (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Social media videos believed to be AI-generated and linked to Russia are targeting two Democratic US Senate candidates. The videos misuse real people's names and photographs to spread disinformation as midterm elections approach.
MPR News reported it asDisinformation videos, likely from Russia, are exploiting real people to malign Senate candidates (opens MPR News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump stated he does not "give a damn" about criticism regarding the United States making a "fortune" from high oil prices. He claimed the US oil and gas industry was making "hundreds of billions of dollars" due to events in the Middle East.
MPR News reported it asThune scrambles to save his Senate majority as voters voice concern over the Iran war and gas prices (opens MPR News 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.
MPR News reported it asParents of girl killed in Annunciation shooting endorse Klobuchar, say Demuth 'lied to us' (opens MPR News in a new tab)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar announced she will move out of her D.C. residence after federal agents conducted a four‑to‑five‑hour search, seized 17 items and sparked safety concerns. The raid is linked to a fraud probe into her family’s immigration records.
MPR News reported it asRep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, DC, home after federal search (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Federal authorities are investigating a series of suspicious letters containing an unidentified white powder sent to election and government officials across the United States. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is leading the inquiry into the connected incidents.
MPR News reported it asFBI investigating letters with 'suspicious substances' sent to election and government officials (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview with Bloomberg that steps have been taken to persuade Ukraine to surrender to Russia. He believes relations with the US may calm after the upcoming elections and indicated potential meetings with Trump envoys.
MPR News reported it asZelenskyy urges support for new U.S. sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold (opens MPR News 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.
MPR News reported it asRep. Ilhan Omar's phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal probe, AP source says (opens MPR News in a new tab)
Minnesota State is weighing a plan to move up to $25 million each year for four years from its two-year colleges to financially challenged universities. The proposal aims to address a systemwide deficit and is set for a Board of Trustees vote on October 14.
MPR News reported it asMinnesota State considers shifting funding from 2-year colleges to support struggling universities (opens MPR News in a new tab)
The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a temporary stop to Minnesota’s AI “nudification” law, which bans realistic nude images of identifiable people. The injunction follows xAI’s lawsuit claiming the ban infringes constitutional free speech, and follows a prior ruling by Judge Donovan Frank on the case.
MPR News reported it asU.S. appeals court blocks Minnesota law barring 'nudified' photos in XAI lawsuit (opens MPR News 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
- Minnesota Public Radiounknowndirect owner
- American Public Media GroupMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
- Official site
- mprnews.org
- Seen publishing on
- mprnews.org
- 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
- 45
- Reports listed
- 45
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
43 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 11 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and MPR News ran the story anyway.
Across the 45 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than MPR News’s on 5 of them. Overall it filed a median of 14 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
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