FEED · LIVE · TUE 12 MAY · 07:00 ET
REV.A · 2026

Three stories.
Five minutes.
Then we let you go.

The news, finite. Every morning, three synthesized briefs drawn from across the political spectrum — labelled, sourced, and over before your coffee cools.

03/03
Stories per day
04:58
Median read time
60
Curated US sources
L · LL · C · LR · R
Bias labels on every source

This is everything you get today.

TUE 12 MAY 2026
EDITION 142 · LIVE
BusinessEconomy
Center
01/03

Fed Holds Rates Steady, Signals Two Cuts Before Year-End

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.

ClimatePolicy
Lean Left
02/03

SCOTUS Lets EPA Methane Rule Stand, 6–3

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.

TechLaw
Lean Right
03/03

DOJ Sues Anthropic Over Training-Data Disclosures

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.

Four directions. One private opinion per card.
More like this
Less like this
Why this is being reported this way
Save for later
THE THESIS · WHY THREE

News consumption is broken in two directions:
infinite scrolls and walls of text.
We don't need either.

01

Scarcity beats abundance.

Three stories means every story earns its slot. The editorial discipline of a newsletter, with the personalization of an algorithm.

02

Swipe is honest signal.

Likes and shares are performative. A private swipe in a one-person UI is the cleanest preference signal you can collect — Tinder, applied to news.

03

Finite UX is the moat.

Competitors can't copy "three stories" without cannibalizing their ad-driven scroll model. It's a strategic constraint, not a feature.

04

Diversity is non-negotiable.

One slot every day is reserved for a story outside your revealed cluster. Built into the loss function. The algorithm can't put you in a bubble even if you try.

BIAS · DATA-ONLY

Every source, labelled. Every label, defensible.

Sixty US news outlets, hand-picked, profiled in-house: bias, factuality, ownership, funding model, editorial posture. We publish our methodology so you can judge it. We don't aggregate other people's scoring — we pick, and we show our work.

Five colors carry meaning in the app, and only meaning. They never decorate. They never sell. They tell you which way the room is leaning, and let you decide what to do about it.

Read the methodology →
Coverage · today's story 01 Balanced
L · 0
LL · 1
C · 2
LR · 1
R · 1
Reuters
Wire · Fact High
WSJ News Desk
News Corp · Fact High
NPR
Listener + Grant · Fact High
Bloomberg
M. Bloomberg · Fact High
Fox Business
News Corp · Fact Mixed
HOW IT FEELS

You open the app at 07:00. Three cards.
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 5-minute promise · inviolable
NWSLY+ · FOR NEWS JUNKIES, NOT EVERYONE

More of the same thing. Never a different thing.

The free tier is the product. nwsly+ doesn't unlock new formats, audio explainers, or hidden depth — it gives you more cards in the same 80–120 word format, in batches of three, 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.

Annual · Save 40%
PLAN · ANNUAL

nwsly+

$60/
yr · billed annually
$100/yr
Unlimited stories beyond the daily three.
Save stories to a personal archive.
Full "why this is being reported" sheets on every brief.
Follow specific topics for priority slotting.
7 days free. Cancel anytime.
Start 7-day trial
FAQ · QUESTIONS WE GET

The things you're going to ask anyway.

Q.01
Why only three stories?
Because four is too many and two is too few. Three is the smallest number that creates a sense of "I've been around the room today" without becoming a feed. It's the constraint, and it's the brand.
Q.02
What happens on a slow news day?
You still get three. One slot is always the algorithm's diversity pick — a story outside your revealed cluster. The other two scale to importance. We'd rather ship a slightly weaker third than break the daily ritual.
Q.03
How do you decide bias?
In-house editorial team. We use AllSides, AdFontes, and MBFC as inputs, but we make the call — and we publish the methodology so you can argue with us. Labels get reviewed quarterly, and any time a source's posture meaningfully shifts.
Q.04
Is the brief written by AI?
Yes — synthesized by a model from 3–5 underlying articles spanning the political spectrum. A human editor reviews every brief before 7am push. We will not ship an unreviewed brief in v1; that's a credibility floor, not a launch concession.
Q.05
Will you make an Android app? A web reader?
Eventually. iOS first, US-only, English-only. Not because we don't care — because three stories in five minutes is a ritual product, and rituals are easier to build right when you can focus on one platform first.
Q.06
Do you sell my data?
No. We don't run ads. We don't sell swipe data. nwsly+ subscriptions are the entire business. The algorithm runs on your phone where it can; what we collect is what's needed to recommend stories to you, and that's it.
● AVAILABLE ON iOS · ANDROID Q3 2026

Five minutes.
Tomorrow at 07:00.

Tap once. Get three. Be done. We'll show ourselves out.