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.