May not be answering your question but I feel like U.S. news is kind of false value. Do we really need to know what's going on at the Federal level? At least not at any sub-quarterly cadence.

I use Apple News to swipe right and see various happenings on the local level. There's national stuff too, it's not perfect by any means, but point being all of it is mostly a distraction vs actually need-to-know.