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The News

gives agents real-time and archival access to front-page headlines across 20 countries for breaking news, current events, and comparative media analysis.

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Rank

Safety

Downloads

8.5k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

1.0.17

Source

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About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 8.5K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

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Public facts

Every fact links back to the source it came from.

Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 8.5K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 1.0.17release · observed Jul 1, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17f1pzxf42hey94vjhyd81z1n85r39x:the-news

Install using `clawhub skill install s17f1pzxf42hey94vjhyd81z1n85r39x:the-news` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/sfkislev/the-news before using production credentials.

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Documentation

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SKILL.md

---
name: the-news
description: gives agents real-time and archival access to front-page headlines across 20 countries for breaking news, current events, and comparative media analysis.
---
This is a global news skill for latest news, breaking news, world news, current events, and news headlines. It gives agents a live multi-source news snapshot and a searchable headline archive across 20 countries via a public API.

This skill gives agents access to the main headlines of many newspapers and news sites, across 20 countries, via a public API.

The API has two modes: a live mode, updated in near real-time, and an archive mode that lets you fetch the headlines from a given moment in time.
In both modes, the endpoint returns a JSON response with the main headline for each source, accompanied by AI-generated overviews to help you contextualize the raw output.
The API is organized by country. A call for US headlines, for instance, returns headlines from about 40 sources across the ideological spectrum - from New York Times, through Washington Post, to Fox news. Each country is represented by a wide range of voices, and each voice contributes its current main headline.
Think of this skill as a constantly updating news stand and a raw headline archive.

## When To Use the Skill
'The Hear' gives agents immediate grounding in unfiltered headlines. Its main use is to give you, the agent, access to what is happening now across the globe in an efficient, centralized way, without the context overload of ad hoc browsing. Use the API whenever you need information about breaking news or real-time events, raw data for comparative news analysis, access to global perspectives and narratives, or a reliable micro-historical dataset.
The skill gives a timestamped, multi-source snapshot of what different outlets consider their main story. This is different from ad-hoc web fetching, which returns scattered articles rather than a consistent front-page view. Use the skill for fast big-picture orientation.

## Multilingual
This skill covers news headlines in many languages: noticias, nouvelles, Nachrichten, notizie, notícias, новости, 新闻, ニュース, أخبار, חדשות, haberler, nieuws, uutiset, wiadomości, новини, समाचार.

## Examples
User: `What's going on in Germany right now?`
Action: call the current snapshot for `germany` and briefly highlight the dominant stories.

User: `What happened yesterday night in Israel?`
Action: call `.../israel?at=<timestamp>` and answer from that historical snapshot.

User: `How did the story mix in Turkey change over the last three days?`
Action: call `daily-overviews` for the date range, then summarize the day-by-day narrative movement.

## Endpoint
`GET https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/[country]`

20 countries are supported, listed below.

## Calls
Snapshot of current main headlines from Germany:
`https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/germany`

Historical snapshot for Germany at a UTC timestamp:
`https://www.thehear.org/api/country

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REFERENCE.md

## Reading Guidance
(a) Be mindful of the different biases and orientations of the various perspectives, taking into account what you know about the sources. You should remember that you are reading different editorial decisions and prioritizations reflected in the main headlines. The API gives you both the events and the framing, and you should be mindful of both, focusing on what the user is interested in. 
(b) The API gives you headlines, short subtitles, and links to full articles. It gives a shallow bird's-eye view, allowing you to quickly scan the state of affairs, as an entry point for further exploration. Treat this as a multi-source snapshot, and not as final verification of claims. 
(c) Be mindful of the difference between the raw headlines, which are an objective historical artifact, and the AI overviews, which are meant to help you contextualize the artifacts. The actual headlines are the source of truth; the overviews were written by an AI model with access to the headlines and previous overviews, and should be treated as such.
(d) The Hear's API gives an objective snapshot of current affairs, by giving you access to a multi-perspective news landscape as it evolves. Using it, you are helping both yourself and your human see through different frames, outside filter bubbles. The data is not pre-processed through any prior undisclosed selection filters. 
(e) Remember that you can query previous timestamps, or previous daily overviews, for more context. 

## The Hear Context
This skill is the agent-facing version of "The Hear" (www.thehear.org), a nonprofit headline dashboard and archive. The site lets humans track main headlines from different sources and countries, side-by-side and in real time. The human version of The Hear is built on top of a time-machine interface that lets users navigate back in time. This skill lets you do the same.

## Available Countries

| Country key | Country | Source count | Earliest archive date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `china` | China | `26` | `2024-09-06` |
| `finland` | Finland | `17` | `2025-11-01` |
| `france` | France | `15` | `2024-08-29` |
| `germany` | Germany | `16` | `2024-07-28` |
| `india` | India | `20` | `2024-09-05` |
| `iran` | Iran | `18` | `2024-08-29` |
| `israel` | Israel | `19` | `2024-07-04` |
| `italy` | Italy | `17` | `2024-08-28` |
| `japan` | Japan | `15` | `2024-09-07` |
| `kenya` | Kenya | `16` | `2025-11-05` |
| `lebanon` | Lebanon | `17` | `2024-08-29` |
| `netherlands` | Netherlands | `12` | `2024-09-05` |
| `palestine` | Palestine | `17` | `2024-09-10` |
| `poland` | Poland | `18` | `2024-08-30` |
| `russia` | Russia | `17` | `2024-08-29` |
| `spain` | Spain | `17` | `2024-09-05` |
| `turkey` | Turkey | `15` | `2024-09-07` |
| `uk` | UK | `21` | `2024-09-05` |
| `ukraine` | Ukraine | `12` | `2024-09-05` |
| `us` | US | `39` | `2024-07-31` |

## Response Structure

```json
{
  "country": "germany",
  "countryName": "Germany",
  "

skill-card.md

## Description:

Gives agents real-time and archival access to front-page headlines across 20 countries for breaking news, current events, and comparative media analysis.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[sfkislev](https://clawhub.ai/user/sfkislev)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

External users and agents use this skill to retrieve current or historical multi-source front-page headline snapshots by country. It supports breaking-news orientation, comparative media analysis, and micro-historical review of headline coverage.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Returned headlines and AI-generated overviews can be incomplete, biased, or misleading if treated as verified facts.

Mitigation: Use raw headlines and original article links as primary evidence, label uncertainty, and verify important claims with original sources.

Risk: Current-events data changes over time and live API responses may differ between calls.

Mitigation: Record the country, mode, query parameters, and timestamps when relying on a specific snapshot or archive result.

## Reference(s):

- [The News on ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/sfkislev/skills/the-news)
- [The Hear API example](https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/germany)
- [The Hear web interface example](https://www.thehear.org/en/germany)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [guidance, API calls, text, JSON]

**Output Format:** [Markdown guidance with HTTPS API examples and JSON response descriptions]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Outputs may include third-party headlines, source links, timestamps, subtitles, and AI-generated overviews from a public read-only API.]

## Skill Version(s):

1.0.17 (source: server release evidence)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

NEWS.txt

The News is a global news aggregator for front pages and headlines. It collects newspaper headlines and front-page stories from news sites around the world for latest news, breaking news, world news, current events, international news monitoring, media analysis, and searchable headline archives across 20 countries.

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