Google News - Daily Headlines

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About this app

Google News is a personalized news aggregator that organizes and highlights what’s happening in the world so you can discover more about the stories that matter to you.

With Google News, you’ll find:

YOUR BRIEFING: It can be nearly impossible to keep up with every story you care about, Your Briefing makes it easy to stay in the know about what’s important and relevant in your world. It updates throughout the day to bring you the top local, national, and world headlines, plus personalized news tailored to your interests.

LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customize and choose multiple locations so you can know what’s happening near you or wherever home is.

FULL COVERAGE: Dive deeper into a story with multiple perspectives. The Full Coverage feature organizes everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and mediums. With just a tap, you’ll uncover how the story is unfolding and how everyone is reporting on it.

STORIES FOR YOU: The For You section delivers personalized news related to your interests. Take control and customize the articles you see by following the topics and sources you care about.

ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE: Google News is designed to meet the needs of users with different phones and levels of connection. When your connection isn’t strong or you need to save data, Google News will continue to work smoothly by slimming down the size of images and downloading less data. Articles can be downloaded over Wi-Fi to save for later when you are offline.

Do you prefer to access your news on your Laptop or Desktop? Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, so you can stay up to date and access the news no matter what device you’re on.

Ratings and reviews

I appreciate seeing a list of articles that I might otherwise miss. However, after reading one article and returning to the list, I often find that the list has been "updated" - so that I am no longer shown articles that I also wanted to read! Also, the list repeatedly shows old "news" and many things that are really promotions rather than news.

Widget was better when you could see more headlines. App is full of clickbait and rubbish articles and when you click "fewer stories like this" and choose why, the options are entirely irrelevant. It's not the topic of the article that's the problem usually, it's the dumb headline or bad journalism. Also, I'm sick of clicking on a headline to find out I've used my '5 free articles of the month' for that provider. Needs to have some sort of built in counter so I know without clicking.

Much preferred the old news and weather app. With that you could customise what tabs to display (e.g. I couldn't care less about "entertainment" headlines), the weather tab actually provided time based data and precipitation rather than just a single row of little icons and just the max/min temp. The recently added dark theme doesn't affect the widget at all, which is disappointing.

What’s new

· Bug fixes and performance improvements