recommend general, skimmable news site?

[cellio]

I've been using cnn.com for my daily national/world news roundup, but they just redesigned the site and made it ugly and bloated. So I'm in the market for a news site that isn't.

I'd like a list of headlines that I can click through, not junked up with videos and audio files, animations, partial news stories on the main page (putting a highlight in a tooltip is fine), or other "improved design" -- just headlines linking to text stories, ideally sorted for US and world news, and if they want to put other categories on there like sports or entertainment I don't care so long as they're labelled so I can skip most of them. (I'll look at "tech" if it's there. I have never cared about sports or celebrity gossip.)

It should not require a humongous browser window and shouldn't break accessibility. Bonus points for working (as a web site, not an app) on my phone.

All news sites are biased, but I'm looking for one that's not too out of whack in any direction -- I want to have some reasonable confidence in the credibility of the news I'm reading, knowing that if something's important it calls for additional fact-checking.

Any recommendations?

Comments

[david (from livejournal.com)]

What does the Guardian's US edition look like to you?

http://www.theguardian.com/us

(I post this away from home on little netbook with five broken keys - thus pithy!)

Davïd

[cellio]

Thanks -- that's quite readable on the computer! (Haven't checked the phone yet.)

Five broken keys? Ouch. And they're probably the oft-used ones, hence stressed, hence broken.