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Honorable mention: https://text.npr.org/

Not technically plaintext (in the MIME type sense), but still very lightweight, especially when compared to other news sites.

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Also:

https://lite.cnn.com/

I read these two all the time. I wish nytimes.com came in a text version, I hate the move to video. I was raised on newspapers not mtv...

The NYT api is really flexible. I made my own NYT ascii frontpage site. It works off the headlines - which is enough for much of my browsing. Then I can jump to the full article, or a scrape.

As a long time subscriber the move to video has been pretty painful. In general the flow of stories has changed so much that I miss more news than I see in the NYT.

Also:

https://www.cbc.ca/lite

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