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News API provides a simple, easy-to-use REST API that returns JSON search results for current and historic news articles from over 150,000 worldwide sources in 14 languages across 55 countries. It offers powerful search and filter options (keywords, exact phrases, boolean operators, date ranges, domains, languages) and endpoints such as top-headlines and everything for flexible querying. It emphasizes easy integration via HTTP GET requests and SDKs, with a free development tier that requires no credit card.
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NewsAPI or Firecrawl serve as the top choices depending on whether you need structured JSON metadata or fully scraped markdown articles.

NewsAPI.org: The classic go-to choice for historical depth and broad publisher coverage