The Courier-Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Courier-Times 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 47 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Courier-Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Courier-Times 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 The Courier-Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Courier-Times 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 The Courier-Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Courier-Times 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 The Courier-Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Courier-Times’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
The Courier-Times reported it asHegseth addresses military spouse commission, vows action on key issues (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
Paramount has settled lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America concerning its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlements pave the way for the $81 billion deal to proceed, pending final court approval.
The Courier-Times reported it asParamount Skydance settles Democrats' antitrust lawsuit (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
Three major news organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging a violation of First Amendment rights after their White House press credentials were revoked. The outlets seek immediate restoration of access.
The Courier-Times reported it asWhen presidents ban journalists from the White House, the First Amendment is not the only constitutional right at stake (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
Stanford University scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct progenitor cell populations, suggesting an evolutionary merging of two ancient nervous systems. This discovery could aid research into neurological diseases.
The Courier-Times reported it asScientists discover brain is actually two separate organs (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asWhy Mortgage Rates Shot Toward 7% Before the Fed Raised Rates (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asGreenland and Antartica lost staggering amount of ice last 50 years (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times 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 The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asPeople got high on mind-bending drugs much earlier than initially believed (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asLouisiana presses abortion-pill challenge before Fifth Circuit (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asICE agent charged with false statements in Metro Surge shooting (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asColorado prepares to mail ballots as usual despite order (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
More than 17 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on 1 September 2026, the US Energy Secretary announced. The figure is the highest daily transit since the US and Israel attacked Iran in February, and close to pre-war levels of around 20 million barrels per day.
The Courier-Times reported it asOil transiting Strait of Hormuz nearing pre-war daily average (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asDOJ sues Kansas school district over gender policies (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asTrump to campaign with incumbent Sullivan in Alaska (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asICE's ‘Rotten Apple’ operation targets New York 'sanctuary' policies (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asU.S. strikes IRGC targets near Strait of Hormuz; Trump warns of harsher attacks (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asSouth Florida doctor pleads Fifth on birth tourism questions (opens The Courier-Times 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.
The Courier-Times reported it asFederal judge strikes down New York's $75B climate 'Superfund' (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish the United States Space Academy. He also presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II astronauts during a visit to NASA's Mission Control in Houston.
The Courier-Times reported it asTrump announces the establishment of a Space Force Academy (opens The Courier-Times in a new tab)
A Texas Southern University poll shows Democrats leading in three South Texas congressional races. This comes as three candidates endorsed by Donald Trump are reportedly in trouble in the region, which has historically leaned Republican.
The Courier-Times reported it asTrump-endorsed congressional Republicans in south Texas trailing in polls (opens The Courier-Times 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 The Courier-Times.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, United States
- Official site
- thecouriertimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- thecouriertimes.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
- 47
- Reports listed
- 47
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
47 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 8 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Courier-Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 47 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than The Courier-Times’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 26 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
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Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Courier-Times, 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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