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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by symplee on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:13PM (#22398457)
Check out Wikipedia's "Current events" section [0]. I feel it does the best job of providing the relevant factual updates about the world without all of the drama, clickbait and gossip.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by bradgessler on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:22PM (#22399289)
I made a more readable version of this at https://legiblenews.com/ (works on mobile, supports dark mode, formatting is more readable, loads in under 200ms w/ 1 request and absolutely no JS) which scrapes Current Events once per day at 8p Pacific Time.

I jokingly say “it’s a news website where if you click on a link, you might accidentally learn something”

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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by sygma on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:07PM (#22399860)
This is great. Thank you for making it! Maybe you could run that cron job more often for people on the other side of the pond? Right now, I'm only seeing news for Saturday.
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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by bradgessler on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:03PM (#22400168)
I’ve thought about that, but I intentionally want only one update per day to limit the “I gotta check the news” addiction and I’ve lined up the publishing to approximately when Wikipedia starts a new day.
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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by nathcd on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:59PM (#22399151)
Side note: I really enjoy browsing wikipedia's portals. The sections on them (like on the Main Page) like 'Did you know...', 'Selected article', 'Selected quote', 'On this day...' are really nice to peruse, and are a nice complement to the type of content in normal articles.

I remember reading at some point (though I can't find it now) that portals were sort of considered a "failed experiment", but they've become some my favorite places to casually browse.

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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:18PM (#22399268)
Someone should turn this into an email newsletter!
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Re:Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of... by samizdis on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:39PM (#22399014)
Nice resource. Thanks for the recommendation.
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