US news at most aggregators is dominated by three or four publishers. The version you get is whatever those four publishers happened to lead with, filtered through whichever one the algorithm thinks you'll click. WeSearch's US-news hub is deliberately wider — left, right, center, beat-specific, investigative, regional — sorted chronologically, identical for every reader.
What's in this hub
Legacy newspapers and broadcasters. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, PBS NewsHour, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC.
Wire services and aggregators. AP US, Reuters US, Bloomberg US, the Hill, Politico, Axios, Semafor, the Atlantic, the New Yorker.
Beat-specific. Politico (politics), Axios (deals + tech + media), the Intercept (investigative), ProPublica (investigative), the Daily Beast, Vox (explanatory), FiveThirtyEight (data), the Marshall Project (criminal justice), Stat (health).
Center-right and right. National Review, the American Conservative, the Dispatch, the Free Press, the Spectator US, the Bulwark, City Journal, the Washington Free Beacon.
Center-left and left. Mother Jones, the Nation, Jacobin, Current Affairs, In These Times, the New Republic, the American Prospect.
State and local press. The Texas Tribune, CalMatters, the City (NYC), Block Club Chicago, the Florida Times-Union, Mississippi Today, Spotlight PA, plus regional press from major metros where they have RSS.
How the feed is sorted
By publish time. No personalization, no algorithm. Same feed for every reader. The wire-service piece on a federal story sits next to the legacy paper's piece on the same story sits next to the partisan magazine's analysis — all in publish-time order.
What kinds of stories you'll find here
- Federal politics and policy
- State and local breaking news
- Congressional and White House beat reporting
- Federal Reserve and economic policy (with the markets hub for market reaction)
- Investigative reporting from ProPublica, the Intercept, the Marshall Project
- Beat-specific deep coverage (criminal justice, health, education, technology policy)
- Cultural and lifestyle coverage from US-based publishers (with the culture hub)
- Election coverage during election cycles
- Federal courts and Supreme Court coverage
- Federal-agency reporting (FDA, FTC, SEC, FCC, EPA)
Bias balance
We try to maintain ideological spread within the US-news catalog, with named representation from center-right, right, center-left, and left publishers alongside the legacy mainstream. We don't apply bias labels to individual stories or sources; that's a contested practice and we'd rather show you who published the piece and let you decide. Read our standards.
The honest acknowledgment: every editor of every news catalog has a position, conscious or not. Ours is roughly that the catalog should let a careful reader find a substantive treatment of any major story from at least two ideologically-distinct publishers. We test this informally — when a major US story breaks, does the hub surface coverage from sources our readers would consider "the other side"? When the answer is no, we add sources.
State and local context
Most national news is filtered through Washington-DC and New York City lenses. We pull from regional press where they have RSS, but our state and local coverage is intentionally narrower than our national coverage. If you want deep state-or-local reporting, the local nonprofit newsroom (Texas Tribune, CalMatters, Mississippi Today) is usually a better surface than a national aggregator, and we link to those rather than try to compete with them.
How to use the US-news hub well
- Mix legacy and partisan sources on big stories. The wire-service piece gives you facts; a left-and-right pair of analysis pieces gives you the framing. Reading both is how you avoid getting flattened by either side's framing.
- Subscribe to push for breaking news only. If you don't want a constant trickle, set the watch to "front page only" — you get notified when a story crosses into the top of the hub.
- Use comment threads to test your priors. Anonymous discussion under US-political stories tends toward more substantive disagreement than social-media threads on the same stories.
- Read the daily editorial. The /daily briefing each morning ties together threads across the day's US news.
What we don't cover
We don't run our own US-news reporting. We aggregate. If a story isn't in one of the publishers in our catalog, it isn't in the hub. The catalog is auditable at /news-sources.
What's distinct about US news as a category
The US news cycle has structural features worth keeping in mind: federal news (Congress, White House, agencies, courts) gets disproportionate coverage relative to state and local; cable-news primetime shapes what gets called a "story" the next morning; the wire-service layer (AP and Reuters) feeds most local newspapers, so a single AP piece appears on hundreds of websites; the post-2016 polarization of US politics has reshaped editorial norms across the major publishers. Reading US news well requires understanding these structural facts rather than treating any single publisher as authoritative.
The hub is built around that reality. Wire copy hits first. Legacy newsrooms add reporting depth. Partisan magazines layer in analysis. Investigative shops (ProPublica, the Intercept, the Marshall Project) publish deeper accountability journalism on a slower timeline. State and local nonprofit newsrooms cover the parts of America that national press misses. Reading across the layers produces a more accurate read than reading any single publisher.
Bottom line: who should read this hub
- If you're a US reader who wants more than your single-paper subscription provides → daily; cross-publisher reading is the standard professional approach.
- If you live outside the US but follow US politics → this hub is one of the few free English-language ways to read across the spectrum without going to specific publishers individually.
- If you work in policy, government, or politics professionally → required.
- If you're trying to break out of a single-publisher media diet → the chronological cross-publisher merge is the easiest way to start.
- If you cover American culture or business and need political context → this hub plus /business covers most of what shapes the operating environment.
Frequently asked
Is the hub balanced ideologically?
We try. The catalog includes named center-right, right, center-left, and left publishers alongside the legacy mainstream. "Balance" is a moving target and reasonable people disagree about where the center is; our standard is that any major US story should be findable from at least two ideologically distinct publishers.
Are state and local stories prominent?
Less than national. Our state and local coverage is real but narrower; for deep state or local reporting, the regional nonprofit newsroom (Texas Tribune, CalMatters, Mississippi Today, the City) is usually the better surface and we link to them.
Where do international stories sit?
Stories that primarily affect US policy or domestic politics appear here; stories about foreign countries appear in /world-news and the regional hubs. Cross-stories appear in both.
Do you cover crime news?
Yes when it's accountability journalism (the Marshall Project, ProPublica, investigative pieces) or when it intersects with politics or policy. Not as standalone "what crime happened today" listings.