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United States World News API
Get the live top world headlines from United States with our JSON API.
Get API key for the United States World News APIAPI 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=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
"totalArticles": 205910,
"articles": [
{
"id": "327cf1bdc41e76ed75384ad4dd7819b9",
"title": "Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Shinzo Abe, Former Leader of Japan",
"description": "Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, with a homemade gun at a political rally in 2022.",
"content": "A man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for assassinating Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, bringing an end to a case that shocked the nation and provoked debate about political violence and broader societal issues.\nTetsu... [1651 chars]",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/world/asia/japan-shinzo-abe-killer-verdict.html",
"image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/21/multimedia/21int-japan-abe-pbhv/21int-japan-abe-pbhv-facebookJumbo.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T06:07:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
"name": "The New York Times",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
}
},
{
"id": "9bc935abe96d15c8ec776980e89d09e3",
"title": "Man who assassinated former Japanese prime minister gets life in prison",
"description": "A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment, according to NHK public television.",
"content": "TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday, according to NHK public television. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s gover... [2565 chars]",
"url": "https://apnews.com/article/japan-abe-assassination-trial-unification-church-925d6cc24e58c50d530736af15fe8c35",
"image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/0e9cdfa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4576x2574+0+238/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F32%2F95%2Fc304c9fbee214accd8e3e2b244bf%2F1c47f13729ed40cfac35a08fc9d6602c",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T04:19:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
"name": "AP News",
"url": "https://apnews.com"
}
},
{
"id": "e458eac1c103b4010f04cc7c2ed0921e",
"title": "Greenland turmoil is eclipsing Ukraine at Davos",
"description": "European leaders gathering at the World Economic Forum are consumed by Donald Trump’s efforts to annex the Arctic island.",
"content": "DAVOS, Switzerland — As a real war rages on Europe’s eastern edge, the continent’s leaders are distracted by a phony one on its western flank.\nWith European leaders scrambling here at Davos to persuade Donald Trump to drop his ambition to own Greenla... [4615 chars]",
"url": "https://www.politico.eu/article/greenland-turmoil-eclipsing-ukraine-war-russia-world-economic-forum-davos/",
"image": "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20/GettyImages-2256640664-scaled.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T03:00:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "3ba3d17ed2b9c7b829a43e4ec3f59eb0",
"name": "politico.eu",
"url": "https://www.politico.eu"
}
}
]
}