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United States Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from United States with our JSON API.

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API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from United States.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=us&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 548868,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cb24df831b85a60bd9617dbada2dbbef",
            "title": "January 6 protesters seek millions in court for ‘physical and emotional injuries’",
            "description": "Several people who were at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection are suing the police agencies that worked to defend the building that day, asking a federal court to award them millions of dollars in damages for the “physical and emotional injuries” they say were inflicted on them by law enforcement.",
            "content": "Several people who were at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection are suing the police agencies that worked to defend the building that day, asking a federal court to award them millions of dollars in damages for the “physical and em... [2377 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/politics/january-6-attack-lawsuit-police",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-1230734250.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T22:59:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "aa05f88b67ab1c3a293a0f061565f985",
            "title": "A New U.S. Missile Hit a Sports Hall in Iran. Here’s What We Know About It.",
            "description": "Barely out of prototype testing, the Precision Strike Missile is shrouded in secrecy — including which Persian Gulf countries the Army is launching them from.",
            "content": "A new Army weapon emerged from relative obscurity after one struck a sports hall and school in southern Iran early in the U.S.-Israeli war, according to weapons experts and a visual analysis by The New York Times.\nLocal officials cited in Iranian med... [1591 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/politics/us-missile-strike-iran-sports-hall-school.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/28/video/30dc-missile-explainer01/28lemard-prsm-03-facebookJumbo.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T22:45:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fb7953e1b164fd1253693a258ccea4c0",
            "title": "Water utility announces it's ditching fluoride-then reveals it did so years ago",
            "description": "The water utility highlighted unsubstantiated health concerns.",
            "content": "Residents of Birmingham, Alabama, were abruptly informed earlier this month that their water utility had decided to stop adding fluoride to city water. Then, days later, they learned that the utility had actually stopped adding fluoride years ago.\nOn... [4788 chars]",
            "url": "https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/water-utility-announces-its-ditching-fluoride-then-reveals-it-did-so-years-ago/",
            "image": "https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-486641681-1152x648.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T22:32:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344add8dabb753d03641ce9f246787ad",
                "name": "Ars Technica",
                "url": "https://arstechnica.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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