What urgent.news is

urgent.news is a single front page for the world's news. It draws on thousands of outlets across dozens of countries every few minutes, groups the many reports of one event into one story, and writes a short, plain-language account of each in its own words — so you can see what's happening without twenty open tabs.

How it works

Gather. A crawler polls hundreds of publishers' RSS feeds continuously and stores each new item with its source and time.

Group. Reports of the same event are clustered into one story, and each story's page carries an "also reported by" list — every other outlet that covered it, in the order they filed. On the front page the tile shows the outlet count.

Retell. For each story we generate our own concise account from the reporting — never the publisher's article text — or a shorter brief for lighter items. Where we retell a foreign-language story we translate it into English; some lighter items are left in the original with a link.

Editor's take. Where it adds something, a short editorial read sits beside the account — also machine-generated (not the view of a human editor), clearly labelled and kept separate from the summary.

Read it your way. Eight topic desks, a "News from your country" edition chosen by your location (or picked from the flag menu), a personal For You feed of the desks you follow, and a Daily Edition.

On machine-written text

Everything urgent.news writes is generated by software, and every piece is labelled as such right on the story. We do not reprint anyone's article — we write our own summary from their reporting and link straight to the original so you can read the full account and judge it yourself. When we haven't written a story up, we say so and send you to the source.

Read it in your AI

urgent.news runs an MCP server, so you can connect the paper to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client and ask it what's being reported — searching the archive, any desk, any country edition. There are open JSON feeds too. No account or key: see API & MCP.

Privacy

Reading needs no account, and there are no ads. (An optional API key creates an account for developers — nothing that touches reading; see Privacy.) The only cookies are the ones that remember your choices — the desks you follow and the country edition you pick — stored so the site can show you what you asked for.

Sources

urgent.news aggregates from thousands of outlets worldwide. Every story credits and links its original publisher, and each source has its own page at /s/<name>, listing everything we've carried from it. If you run a publication and would like to be included — or excluded — get in touch.

urgent.news is an independent project and is not affiliated with the publishers it links to. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.