News-Topic media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give News-Topic one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 16 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is News-Topic biased?
The rating organisations do not give News-Topic one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is News-Topic left or right?
The rating organisations do not give News-Topic one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is News-Topic reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for News-Topic 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 News-Topic has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with News-Topic’s own report linked underneath.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has publicly stated that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her brother to facilitate his immigration to the United States. Mullin indicated that an ongoing investigation could result in Omar's deportation if illegal activity is uncovered.
News-Topic reported it asHoman confirms ongoing federal investigation into Ilhan Omar (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
Border Czar Tom Homan has confirmed that the federal inquiry into Representative Ilhan Omar is an ongoing criminal investigation. He stated that fraud or material misrepresentation during the citizenship process could lead to denaturalization.
News-Topic reported it asHoman confirms ongoing federal investigation into Ilhan Omar (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
Documents obtained by multiple outlets reveal that Atlantic Industrial Coatings admitted its own design and workmanship flaws caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner to blister and detach. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said the damage resulted from a botched installation, and the government agreed to a $14.7 million repair payment.
News-Topic reported it asTrump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, alleging its transgender student policies violate federal law. The school district maintains its policies are compliant with federal regulations.
News-Topic reported it asDOJ sues Kansas school district over gender policies (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
President Donald Trump announced he will campaign in Alaska for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a tight race for re-election. The event is scheduled for October, with control of the U.S. Senate at stake in the November vote.
News-Topic reported it asTrump to campaign with incumbent Sullivan in Alaska (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,328 immigrants during a two-week operation in Virginia and Maryland. Nearly 400 had prior convictions or pending charges, and some were identified as alleged members of transnational criminal organizations.
News-Topic reported it asICE arrests more than 1,300 over two weeks in Virginia, Maryland (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
A poll conducted by The Center Square in North Carolina at the end of July found 34% of respondents identified as MAGA, while 29% identified as Democratic Socialists of America. The survey results were reported by outlets across the political spectrum, with varying emphasis on the groups named.
News-Topic reported it asElection 2026: Poll says MAGA 34%, Democratic Socialists of America 29% (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
The Trump administration proposed rules to block illegal immigrants from receiving refund payments through four refundable tax credits, estimating $3bn in savings. The changes target the adoption, child, American opportunity and earned income tax credits, affecting nearly 1 million people.
News-Topic reported it asBessent: illegal immigrants should not receive certain tax credit refunds (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
Florida voters choose nominees on 20 August 2026 to replace term-limited Governor Ron DeSantis and to complete Marco Rubio’s unexpired U.S. Senate term. The state’s first congressional primaries under a new Republican-drawn map will also take place.
News-Topic reported it asWahab ahead of Hernandez in election for Swalwell's seat (opens News-Topic 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.
News-Topic reported it asTafoya, Flanagan to face off for U.S. Senate (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
Newly released texts from Anthony Fauci’s government phone reveal he privately raised concerns in January 2021 that fever after the second COVID-19 vaccine dose could theoretically be linked to miscarriage, while publicly stating there were no red flags for pregnant women. The messages were obtained by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
News-Topic reported it asFauci texts reveal concern over pregnancy, COVID vaccine (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
A University of Vienna study used brain scans of twelve dogs to show that happy human faces activate the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, while anger, fear and sadness produce distinct neural patterns. The findings, published in iScience, suggest dogs can differentiate between specific emotions.
News-Topic reported it asCan dogs tell fear from sadness? Brain scans may reveal answer (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
The US State Department has revoked over 175,000 visas since President Donald Trump began his second term, citing criminal activity, visa violations and fraud. Assault, drunk driving and birth tourism were among the leading reasons for the cancellations, the department said.
News-Topic reported it asOngoing immigration enforcement: More than 175,000 visas revoked in 20 months (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
Organisations advocating to end child marriage in the United States are targeting Republican lawmakers at state and federal levels, framing it as a nonpartisan issue affecting children. Some states are advancing laws to set the minimum marriage age at 18, while California legislators face lobbying to remove exceptions.
News-Topic reported it asAdvocates seeking Republicans to support ending child marriage in the U.S. (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak between 12 and 13 August 2026, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible. A partial solar eclipse will occur on 12 August, offering a rare dual celestial event. Outlets varied in emphasis on timing, visibility, and the eclipse's coincidence.
News-Topic reported it asThe Perseid meteor shower is one more reason for a late-summer road trip (opens News-Topic in a new tab)
A study of ancient DNA has provided the first direct genetic evidence that European colonisers introduced smallpox to the Americas. All six outlets reporting the story led on the confirmation of long-held historical accounts, with no left-rated outlet covering the findings.
News-Topic reported it asAncient DNA confirms European colonizers brought smallpox to Americas (opens News-Topic 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
We hold no ownership record for News-Topic.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States
- Official site
- newstopicnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- newstopicnews.com
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 16
- Reports listed
- 16
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
16 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.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and News-Topic ran the story anyway.
Across the 16 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than News-Topic’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 14 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as News-Topic, 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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