The news takes five — and gives you back your morning.
Five stories. Three national, one local, one state. Done before the kettle whistles.
Five stories. Three national, one local to your city, one statewide. AI-analyzed, human-checked. Then the screen goes dark and your morning stays yours. No bottomless feed. No 40-headline triage. No "one more article" loop that ends with you feeling worse than when you started.
The committee kept its benchmark at 4.25–4.50% for the fourth consecutive meeting. Powell pointed to easing inflation and a softening labor market as reasons to begin lowering rates later this year.
A divided court declined to block the agency's emissions cap on existing oil and gas operations. Dissent argued the rule oversteps the Clean Air Act's scope. Industry groups vow further challenges.
The complaint alleges the company misrepresented the sources of text used to train its consumer products. The case will test whether AI training disclosures fall under existing consumer-protection law.
Your local story, synthesized from city outlets the wire services don't reach. Civic, school-board, transit, housing — whichever angle moves your day. Read it now in the live web reader.
The state-level story most national wires won't cover — the bill that just cleared committee, the policy your governor just signed, the line item that changes your day. Read it now in the live web reader.
Any direction advances you to the next card. No skip, no neutral — the swipe is the signal.
David Allen's rule: five items is the most a person can keep in working memory at once. We built the daily deck around the cap rather than past it. Past five, you stop catching up and start scrolling.
Three national stories cover what everyone else is talking about. One local story covers your city. One state story covers your statehouse. That's the picture of the day for almost everyone.
Competitors can't copy "five stories a day" without cannibalizing their ad-driven scroll model. It's a strategic constraint, not a feature.
Your five start balanced — one from each side. From there the deck learns what you read and follows your lead, topic and perspective alike. We don't force-feed you the other side — but one of your three national stories always comes from outside your lean. And we never drop below our factuality floor.
More than 300 rated outlets across 17 country editions — national, city, and state — and growing. Every brief is AI-analyzed across three to five source articles and human-spot-checked before the 7am push. The result is a synthesized read, not five competing leads stacked on top of each other.
The free tier shows you the brief, the source list, and the slot it fills — national, local, or state. The premium tier (nwsly+) adds the source-ratings layer: the real ideology of every outlet you read — Establishment Liberal, Gaullist, Populist Conservative — plus where it sits on the left–right spectrum, its factuality, ownership, and funding.
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You open the app at 07:00. Five cards — three national, one local, one state.
You swipe through them in the time it takes the kettle to boil.
The app tells you you're caught up, and goes away.
That's the product.
The free tier is the product — five briefs a day, three national, one local, one state. nwsly+ adds the source-ratings layer — each outlet's real ideology, its place on the bias spectrum, factuality, ownership, and funding — and gives you more cards in the same 80–120 word format when you genuinely want more.
It's the Duolingo / NYT Games model: the free tier is excellent and self-contained; the paid tier is a power-user tool that doesn't change the rules.
The news, finite. Five AI-analyzed briefs — three national, one local, one state. Today and yesterday are free — no account needed.