UPI media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place UPI in the centre. We have seen it on 435 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is UPI biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place UPI in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is UPI left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place UPI in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is UPI reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for UPI 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 UPI has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with UPI’s own report linked underneath.
Israel's election commission has found no evidence of fraud affecting the integrity of the recent parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters had alleged irregularities, with his Likud party filing numerous complaints.
UPI reported it asIsraeli President Isaac Herzog formally adopts election results (opens UPI in a new tab)
A LOT Polish Airlines flight from London to Warsaw made an unscheduled landing at Warsaw-Modlin airport on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, due to a bomb threat. Warsaw-Modlin airport was temporarily closed. An SAS flight from Copenhagen to Warsaw also reported a bomb threat.
UPI reported it as7 flights in Europe receive bomb threats (opens UPI in a new tab)
Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, has written to the UN Secretary General requesting dialogue and mediation. He expressed concerns that El Salvador's deployment of troops after the disappearance of four Salvadoran aviation technicians could escalate violence.
UPI reported it asU.N. receives Haiti gang's request for talks amid Salvadoran offensive (opens UPI in a new tab)
Jesús de Miguel, a 30-year-old Tenerife attacker, died on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. He had suffered a cardiac arrest following a collision with FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono during a second-division match on Monday. The player was taken to hospital after the incident.
UPI reported it asSpanish striker Jesus de Miguel dies after on-field collision (opens UPI in a new tab)
Polls have opened across the United States for midterm elections, with a potential 'Blue Wave' threatening Republican control of Congress. President Trump made a final campaign address as his approval ratings hover near a record low.
UPI reported it asHow the midterms shape the last two years of a presidency (opens UPI in a new tab)
Democrats hope midterm elections will curb President Trump's power, but Canadians may be disappointed as bilateral tensions are likely to remain. Experts point to persistent protectionist policies and potential presidential unpredictability as reasons for continued strain.
UPI reported it asHow the midterms shape the last two years of a presidency (opens UPI in a new tab)
Donald Trump has acknowledged that the war with Iran, alongside the cost of living, played a role in the Republican Party's defeat in the midterm elections. The conflict's financial toll was also noted.
UPI reported it asHow the midterms shape the last two years of a presidency (opens UPI in a new tab)
Iranian state media reported hearing five explosions on Qeshm Island, near Bandar Lengeh in Hormozgan province. Some residents reported seeing two aircraft in the sky. No official confirmation of the source has been released.
UPI reported it asReports: U.S. attacks Iran's Qeshm Island (opens UPI in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated he believes a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is nearing completion. He suggested a deal could be finalized at the G20 summit in December, which is scheduled to take place at his resort in Doral, Florida.
UPI reported it asTrilateral U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks on ending Moscow's war to resume (opens UPI in a new tab)
The Kennedy Center has announced its 2026 honorees: Paul Anka, David Foster, Andy Garcia, David Mamet, and Barbara Mandrell. The ceremony will be moved from the venue for the first time due to a legal dispute involving President Donald Trump's renovation plans.
UPI reported it asAndy Garcia, Barbara Mandrell among 2026 Kennedy Center honorees (opens UPI in a new tab)
Supermarkets in at least nine European countries experienced cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems on November 2. The European Union warned the incidents were a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain, leading to spoiled food and investigations.
UPI reported it asGrocery store refrigerators, freezers hacked in Belgium, 6 other countries (opens UPI in a new tab)
Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution aimed at ending the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and establishing a new political one. A subsequent Russian proposal to extend the existing mission for a year also failed to pass.
UPI reported it asU.N.'s 35-year Western Sahara mission ends over U.S.-Russia rift (opens UPI in a new tab)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
UPI reported it asRep Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers in Michigan U.S. Senate race (opens UPI in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
UPI reported it asJudge tosses Trump suit to pre-emptively challenge Alaska vote results (opens UPI 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.
UPI reported it asCanadian PM Mark Carney had 'good conversation' on trade with Trump (opens UPI in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied facilitating Flávio Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil to the United States. While Rubio stated President Trump authorized Bolsonaro's entry, he asserted the US government was not involved in arranging the travel itself.
UPI reported it asRubio denies Trump officials had role in Bolsonaro flight from Brazil (opens UPI in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
UPI reported it asJudge dismisses Trump suit over Wall Street Journal's Epstein report (opens UPI in a new tab)
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to halt a third criminal case against him. The Justice Department filed the charges using a 'criminal information' instead of a grand jury, a move Comey's team calls legally invalid.
UPI reported it asJames Comey in court to seek Trump administration charges dropped (opens UPI in a new tab)
Mohamed Soliman pleaded guilty to nine federal hate-crime counts and three federal weapon charges for a June 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. He is already serving a life sentence for state convictions related to the same attack, which killed one demonstrator and injured about a dozen others.
UPI reported it asMan convicted of Colorado firebombing pleads guilty to hate crimes (opens UPI in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
UPI reported it asBinance suffers 'security incident'; N. Korea suspected in $6.3B theft (opens UPI 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
- News World CommunicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 435
- Reports listed
- 447
- We could read
- 13
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
434 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 13 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. UPI is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 435 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than UPI’s on 8 of them. Overall it filed a median of 23 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 1 November 2026.
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