The following is a long list of text based news sites. Get the news without the junk !

CBC Lite (Canada)
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=latest

NPR Text (USA)
https://text.npr.org/

CNN Lite (USA)
https://lite.cnn.com/

PBS Lite (USA)
https://lite.pbs.org/

Times Wire (thumbnail images; USA)
https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire

ESPN Scoreboard (US sports, scores only)
https://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard

Christian Science Monitor Text (World)
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/text/textedition

Neuters (Reuters)
https://neuters.de/

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