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title: "News Feeds"
description: "Catalogue of regional, topical, and variant-specific news-feed panels — content-stream surfaces that share a common panel framework with per-topic or per-region scoping."
---

Every variant of WorldMonitor ships a set of **content-stream panels** — regional news, topical news, tech / startup feeds, finance and commodity streams, energy headlines, and happy-variant feel-good streams. They share a common panel framework: ranked headlines, source attribution, activity tracking, and Cmd+K / custom-monitor highlighting. This page is the collective reference so the per-panel behaviour is findable without writing one page per feed.

Every panel name in the tables below is also registered in at least one `*_PANELS` block in `src/config/panels.ts`. When you open a panel and the content is empty, check [Data Sources](/data-sources) and the global [health endpoint](/health-endpoints) for the underlying feed's status.

For the scoring, freshness, dedupe, story tracking, brief filtering, cooldown,
LLM, and bias controls shared across these feeds, see the canonical
[News Digest and Briefing methodology](/methodology/news-digest-and-briefing).

## Regional news

Regional panels scope the world to one macro-region's news stream, with language coverage and source curation optimised for that region. They share the `regional news` family in the geopolitical variant and appear in the Cmd+K "News" group.

| Panel id | Title | Variants |
|---|---|---|
| `politics` | World News | Full / tech / finance / commodity |
| `us` | United States | Full |
| `europe` | Europe | Full |
| `middleeast` | Middle East | Full |
| `africa` | Africa | Full |
| `latam` | Latin America | Full |
| `asia` | Asia-Pacific | Full |

All free. Source curation and entitlement live in `src/config/variants/full.ts` (and equivalents).

## Topical news

Topic-scoped news feeds — each panel is the canonical news view for its domain. Topical panels are usually paired with the matching intelligence / data panel (e.g. Crypto News next to Crypto Sectors).

| Panel id | Title | Typical variant |
|---|---|---|
| `economic-news` | Economic News | Full / finance / commodity |
| `markets-news` | Markets News | Finance |
| `crypto-news` | Crypto News | Finance |
| `climate-news` | Climate News | Full / commodity |
| `mining-news` | Mining News | Commodity |
| `commodity-news` | Commodity News | Commodity |
| `commodities-news` | Commodities News | Finance |

All free.

## Tech / startup streams (tech variant)

The tech variant ships a large family of content streams covering the startup ecosystem, infrastructure trends, and tech-policy signals. They appear in the tech variant's panel grid and are reachable from Cmd+K.

| Panel id | Title |
|---|---|
| `startups` | Startups & VC |
| `unicorns` | Unicorns |
| `accelerators` | Accelerators & Demo Days |
| `regionalStartups` | Global Startup News |
| `fintech` | Fintech & Trading Tech |
| `ipo` | IPO & SPAC |
| `layoffs` | Layoffs Tracker |
| `producthunt` | Product Hunt |
| `thinktanks` | Think Tanks |
| `vcblogs` | VC Insights & Essays |
| `defense-patents` | R&D Signal |
| `ai-regulation` | AI Regulation Dashboard |
| `tech-hubs` | Hot Tech Hubs |
| `ai` | AI/ML News / AI/ML |
| `cloud` | Cloud |
| `hardware` | Hardware |
| `dev` | Dev tools |
| `security` | Security |
| `github` | GitHub |

All free. Specific sub-feeds are configured in `src/config/variants/tech.ts`.

## Finance streams (finance variant)

The finance variant's content-stream panels are tighter and market-focused.

| Panel id | Title |
|---|---|
| `bonds` | Bonds |
| `centralbanks` | Central Bank Watch |
| `derivatives` | Derivatives & Options |
| `forex` | Forex |
| `institutional` | Institutional |
| `policy` | Policy |
| `fin-regulation` | Financial Regulation |
| `commodity-regulation` | Regulation & Policy |
| `analysis` | Market Analysis |

All free. Stream configuration lives in `src/config/variants/finance.ts`.

## Energy streams (energy variant)

The energy variant ships a focused set of content streams for live energy
headlines, oil and gas markets, and supply-chain chokepoints. The site has
client-side `ENERGY_FEEDS`; the server digest currently normalises
`variant=energy` to `full`, so energy-only categories can use direct per-feed
fallback when they are absent from the digest.

| Panel id | Title |
|---|---|
| `live-news` | Energy Headlines |
| `energy` | Energy Markets News |
| `supply-chain` | Chokepoints & Routes |

All free. Stream configuration lives in `src/config/variants/energy.ts` and
`src/config/feeds.ts`.

## Happy variant feeds

The happy variant (positive-news product) replaces conflict-centric feeds with a curated set of constructive-news surfaces.

| Panel id | Title |
|---|---|
| `species` | Conservation Wins |
| `breakthroughs` | Scientific Breakthroughs |
| `progress` | Progress Signals |
| `spotlight` | Spotlight |
| `giving` | Giving & Philanthropy |
| `digest` | Daily Digest |
| `events` | Positive Events |
| `funding` | Funding |
| `counters` | Live Counters |
| `gov` | Government Action |
| `renewable` | Renewable Energy |

All free. Stream configuration lives in `src/config/variants/happy.ts`.

## Shared behaviour across all news panels

- **Activity tracking** — newly arrived items get the standard new-item visual treatment.
- **Custom Monitor highlighting** — matching articles surface their [monitor](/panels/monitors) colour as an accent (including inside clusters).
- **Cmd+K discoverability** — each panel is searchable by its title and category.
- **Free by default** — none of the news-feed panels are PRO-gated.

### Backed by endpoints

| Feed family | Endpoint | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Digest feed | `GET /api/news/v1/list-feed-digest` | Pre-aggregated RSS digest by site variant. |
| Summary cache lookup | `GET /api/news/v1/summarize-article-cache` | Cache-only GET for deterministic article-summary keys; use `POST /api/news/v1/summarize-article` to generate. |
| arXiv papers | `GET /api/research/v1/list-arxiv-papers` | ResearchService academic-paper feed. |
| Trending repos | `GET /api/research/v1/list-trending-repos` | ResearchService GitHub trending feed. |
| Hacker News items | `GET /api/research/v1/list-hackernews-items` | ResearchService Hacker News feed. |
| Giving activity | `GET /api/giving/v1/get-giving-summary` | Global personal-giving and philanthropy summary used by happy-variant giving surfaces. |

## Related

- [Signal Intelligence](/signal-intelligence) — structural overview of how news feeds are classified, deduplicated, and ranked.
- [News Digest and Briefing methodology](/methodology/news-digest-and-briefing) — canonical scoring, freshness, story tracking, brief filtering, cooldown, LLM, and bias controls.
- [Data Sources](/data-sources) — the server digest feed inventory and broader upstream source list.
- [My Monitors](/panels/monitors) — how keyword monitors work across news feeds.
