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United States Nation News API

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

Get API key for the United States Nation News API

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": 435128,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c9831cbc17cfc2fd3b7cc43a51ca98b7",
            "title": "Alex Pretti seen confronting federal agents 11 days before fatal shooting in new video",
            "description": "Pretti appeared to have his gun on him at the time, though he was only detained briefly",
            "content": "Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse fatally shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, appeared to confront federal agents less than two weeks before his death, newly published video footage shows.\nA video published by The News ... [4426 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-alex-pretti-minneapolis-video-b2909932.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/01/29/0/32/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-7-04-07-PM.png?trim=0,101,0,374&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-29T06:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "76ff5a3da91f71d1621101b552683173",
            "title": "Driver Rams Car Into Headquarters of Chabad Hasidic Movemen",
            "description": "No one was injured when the motorist drove into a rear door of the building on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The man was arrested; the police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.",
            "content": "A motorist rammed his car at least four times into a rear entrance of the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish movement in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to the police and video of the crash.\nThe driver was immediately arr... [2029 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/nyregion/chabad-crash-eastern-parkway.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/28/multimedia/28met-chabad-crash/28met-chabad-crash-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-29T05:29:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "720fc9f59c8faf958b0e7f496c8c0e4f",
            "title": "Videos show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal officers 11 days before he was killed",
            "description": "Three newly discovered videos show the Minneapolis ICU nurse being tackled by federal agents in a prior confrontation",
            "content": "Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis.\nAbout two minutes of video, published on Wednesday by The News Movement,... [3930 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/alex-pretti-shooting-11-days-before-federal-officers-clash",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/52f0b328adc05efcc5ab986c9c836d16d416de99/34_8_513_411/master/513.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=d469dcf4379693e2dcf9304fb6a50543",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-29T05:05:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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