Shelby News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Shelby News 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 54 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Shelby News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Shelby News 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 Shelby News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Shelby News 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 Shelby News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Shelby News 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 Shelby News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Shelby News’s own report linked underneath.
Minnesota continues to use a COVID-era waiver for SNAP applicants, permitting verbal signatures over the phone. The U.S. Department of Agriculture extended this waiver until June 30, 2028, but state and federal officials appear to differ on its application.
Shelby News reported it asMinnesota, USDA differ on scope of SNAP waiver as lawmaker raises fraud concerns (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
Shelby News reported it asWhy Mortgage Rates Shot Toward 7% Before the Fed Raised Rates (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
A major scientific report indicates Greenland and Antarctica have lost between 11.3 and 12.5 trillion tons of ice since 1979. This loss has contributed to a global sea level rise of approximately 3 to 3.14 centimeters, primarily driven by accelerated glacier flow into the ocean.
Shelby News reported it asGreenland and Antartica lost staggering amount of ice last 50 years (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
Federal authorities have unsealed an indictment charging five individuals linked to Russian intelligence services with plotting targeted killings in the United States and European nations supporting Ukraine. The FBI announced it disrupted the alleged plot.
Shelby News reported it asFive indicted in Russian assassination scheme in New York (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
The House Judiciary immigration subcommittee convened a hearing on sanctuary jurisdictions. Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock stated that lawmakers will have an opportunity to vote on his related bill before the end of the current session.
Shelby News reported it asGOP-led committee pushes sanctuary policy reform (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
Analysis of prehistoric human remains from Indonesia has revealed evidence of habitual drug use dating back approximately 25,000 years. This predates agriculture and suggests humans may have been consuming psychoactive substances much earlier than previously understood.
Shelby News reported it asPeople got high on mind-bending drugs much earlier than initially believed (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has proposed giving $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate in the upcoming midterms. The plan is projected to cost $1.2 trillion and has raised concerns about inflation.
Shelby News reported it asDemocrats accuse Trump of 'bribing' Americans with $5k dividend (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
Scientists estimate Mercury's diameter may have shrunk by up to 14 miles (23 kilometers), a figure 30% greater than earlier projections. The planet's hot iron core cooling and contracting is believed to be the cause, tightening its surface.
Shelby News reported it asMercury shrinking more than scientists previously thought (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hold a hearing on Wednesday in New Orleans on Louisiana’s lawsuit aiming to overturn the federal policy that allows abortion pills to be prescribed without an in‑person visit. Medication abortion now dominates abortions, and telehealth prescriptions keep rising.
Shelby News reported it asLouisiana presses abortion-pill challenge before Fifth Circuit (opens Shelby News 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.
Shelby News reported it asICE agent charged with false statements in Metro Surge shooting (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked new U.S. Postal Service rules that could delay mail-in ballots, following warnings from a whistleblower and election officials. The Trump administration is appealing the order.
Shelby News reported it asColorado prepares to mail ballots as usual despite order (opens Shelby News 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.
Shelby News reported it asDOJ sues Kansas school district over gender policies (opens Shelby News 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.
Shelby News reported it asTrump to campaign with incumbent Sullivan in Alaska (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
Operation Rotten Apple, a federal immigration enforcement initiative, resulted in the detention of over 2,100 migrants in New York. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the operation's findings, criticizing state and city politicians for sanctuary policies.
Shelby News reported it asICE's ‘Rotten Apple’ operation targets New York 'sanctuary' policies (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated the US will respond forcefully to Iranian attacks on American bases in Jordan and the UAE. The exchange of fire follows a US strike on Iran's Larak Island, with both sides issuing threats of further action.
Shelby News reported it asU.S. strikes IRGC targets near Strait of Hormuz; Trump warns of harsher attacks (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
A doctor involved in a federal birth tourism probe invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a House Oversight Committee hearing. The doctor, Wladimir Lorentz, refused to answer questions after being subpoenaed, prompting debate over birthright citizenship.
Shelby News reported it asSouth Florida doctor pleads Fifth on birth tourism questions (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked New York's law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate change damages. The judge found the state law conflicted with federal authority, particularly the Clean Air Act.
Shelby News reported it asFederal judge strikes down New York's $75B climate 'Superfund' (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
A whistleblower has raised alarms about a new U.S. Postal Service system designed to verify mail ballots, alleging it is being developed with inadequate testing and a rushed timeline. The system, intended to comply with a Trump executive order, could lead to the rejection of large numbers of ballots.
Shelby News reported it asPostal Service work to comply with Trump's executive order is rushed, sloppy, whistleblower contends (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
The Trump administration announced new drug pricing agreements with nine pharmaceutical companies. These deals are intended to align U.S. prices with those paid in other developed countries, impacting state Medicaid programs.
Shelby News reported it asNine more pharmaceutical manufacturers join Trump's most-favored-nation initiative (opens Shelby News in a new tab)
The US Department of Transportation has shut down between 110 and 270 commercial truck driving schools. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cited English proficiency violations as the reason for the closures, which are part of a broader effort to combat fraud in the trucking industry.
Shelby News reported it asFeds close trucking schools in alleged fraud crackdown (opens Shelby News 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 Shelby News.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- shelbynews.com
- Seen publishing on
- shelbynews.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
- 54
- Reports listed
- 54
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
54 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 10 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Shelby News ran the story anyway.
Across the 54 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Shelby News’s on 4 of them. Overall it filed a median of 19 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Shelby News, 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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