News RSS feeds that still work in 2026 (BBC, Reuters, AP, Google News)

None of these three has a working public feed, so each URL below is a Google News search limited to the outlet with site: and to the last hour with when:1h. Items link to the story through a news.google.com redirect, titles end with the outlet name, and there are no images.

Tech outlets publish clean feeds. All of these except The Verge list strictly newest first.

ESPN answers browsers with an empty HTTP 202 bot check, so the feed looks broken when you open it in Chrome. Feed readers get the feed: OpenTweet’s fetcher, Feedly’s user agent and plain curl all got it on the day we checked.

Science feeds move slower than news feeds. A daily check is often enough.

Feeds that failed our test

These addresses still circulate in older lists. None of them worked as a news feed on October 22, 2026.

The OpenTweet RSS connector reads a feed, writes one post per new story, and publishes it to your X account. You connect X with a normal login, so there is no X developer account, and OpenTweet pays X's API fees inside the plan.

1. Paste a feed URL from this page (or a site address; the connector finds the feed). RSS, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed all work.
2. Choose how often to check: every 5 minutes, every 15 minutes, hourly, daily, weekly or manual, on every plan. An unchanged feed is skipped with a quick “has it changed?” request.
3. Choose how it writes: an AI rewrite with your prompt and voice, which can also skip stories that do not fit, or a template such as New: {title}\n{url} using {title}, {url} and {description}.
4. Choose 1, 5 or 10 posts per run, and whether new posts wait for your review or are scheduled automatically, starting 5 minutes out and spaced by a gap of 30 minutes to 12 hours (90 minutes by default).
5. Turn the link on or off, and the image on only for feeds you own. Each story posts once: items are matched by guid, id, link or content.

Connectors  ->  New connector  ->  RSS

  Feed URL:    https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=site:apnews.com+when:1h&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
  Frequency:      Every 15 minutes
  Writing:        AI rewrite. Prompt: "One sentence on what happened,
                  in plain words. Name the source. No hashtags,
                  no 'BREAKING'."
  Posts per run:  5
  New posts:      held for review first, then auto-schedule
                  with a 90-minute gap
  Article link:   on    (includeLink, added on its own line)
  Image:          off   (includeImage; third-party feed)
  X account:      @yournewsdesk

There are no keyword filters, so pick a narrow feed (a section feed, or a Google News search) and let the prompt do the rest. The first run picks from stories already in the feed, which is another reason to start with review. With auto cross-posting turned on in Settings, connector posts also go to your Bluesky and LinkedIn accounts.

Link posts per plan

Through X's API a post with a URL costs $0.200 and a plain post $0.015 (X API pricing, checked October 22, 2026). Twenty link posts a day is about 600 a month, or $120 in API fees. Each OpenTweet plan includes a daily number of link posts at a flat price.

Past the daily link allowance you can buy link credits; without them the URL is left out and the post goes out as text. Images do not count as links. See pricing, and why X charges more for links.

The connector checks every 5 minutes at best and posts the first new item 5 minutes later. For breaking news within seconds, have your own watcher call the REST API with publish_now: true. One request can also schedule up to 50 posts, attach images with media_urls, and pick the account with x_account_id. A post that repeats a recent one returns 409 instead of going out twice.

# Breaking story: post it now, not on the next feed check
curl -X POST https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ot_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Your one-line summary of the story, in your words. Source: Reuters",
    "publish_now": true
  }'

Fields are in the API reference. The same posting works from the MCP server, the CLI, the n8n node and the Telegram bot. ProPakistani runs breaking news across several handles this way, and The Circuitry posts 15 to 25 tech stories a day across two accounts.