United States Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from the United States with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top nation headlines from the United States. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=nation&country=us&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --data-urlencode "country=us" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "nation", "country": "us", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "nation",
    country: "us",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "nation",
    "country"  => "us",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=nation&country=us&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 624906,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a29a7612fdc438eadcc1695cc4a3a694",
            "title": "Detienen a 237 personas durante operación contra el crimen organizado en Nuevo México",
            "description": "Durante una operación conjunta del gobierno de EEUU en Nuevo México, el HSI arrestó a 237 personas, de las cuales 12 fueron identificadas como integrantes de pandillas y se incautaron 17 armas de fuego. | N+ Univision Criminalidad | Univision",
            "content": "Durante una operación conjunta del gobierno de EEUU en Nuevo México, el HSI arrestó a 237 personas, de las cuales 12 fueron identificadas como integrantes de pandillas y fueron incautadas 17 armas de fuego.\nVideo Megaoperativo en Skid Row: desmantela... [877 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.univision.com/noticias/criminalidad/detienen-a-273-personas-durante-operacion-contra-el-crimen-organizado-en-nuevo-mexico",
            "image": "https://www.univision.com/api/image/og/us/noticias/criminalidad/detienen-a-273-personas-durante-operacion-contra-el-crimen-organizado-en-nuevo-mexico",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:53:54Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "eb4456d007d51d44dc62d01c16a53d83",
                "name": "Univision",
                "url": "https://www.univision.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "aa36b30c33ffc4ba6bd66f5db3c5d296",
            "title": "Denmark pushes back as Trump touts Greenland oil and mineral deals",
            "description": "Recent US-Greenland-Denmark agreement excludes mining or drilling rights while reinforcing Greenland’s sovereignty.",
            "content": "Denmark has demanded that US resource exploration in Greenland respect the island’s laws amid President Donald Trump’s claim that oil, gas and mineral extraction will soon begin there.\nThe Danish Foreign Ministry reaffirmed on Wednesday that last mon... [2574 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/14/denmark-pushes-back-as-trump-touts-greenland-oil-and-mineral-deals",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/epa_6acffae34b8c-1792015075.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:40:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "14fb37f30ded347ba31646f8802c7fcc",
            "title": "Rep. Nancy Mace’s ex-fiancé and two others charged with sexual misconduct-related offenses",
            "description": "Three men whom US Rep. Nancy Mace accused of being “PREDATORS” in an unprecedented House floor speech last year – including her ex-fiancé – were charged with sexual misconduct-related offenses Wednesday, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.",
            "content": "Three men whom US Rep. Nancy Mace accused of being “PREDATORS” in an unprecedented House floor speech last year – including her ex-fiancé – were charged with sexual misconduct-related offenses Wednesday, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division sa... [7019 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/us/nancy-mace-ex-fiance-charged",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/20261014-sled3.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:24:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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