For the News App to even display these headline selections in your notifications, you had to have selected the Washington Post and New York Times feeds at some point in the News App. It was not Apple who made these choices for you. Other, perhaps better choices, could have been Fox News, BBC News, Buzz Feed, Donald Trump, TechCrunch, The Verge, The New York Post, Reuters, CNBC, National Review Online, or many others.
I chose not to get any. I prefer to get my news from FreeRepublic when I browse at my convenience, not when it comes in willy-nilly. Since I did not select any, my Notification area for News is blank.
Thanks. I never selected any particular news at all. That’s what really ticks me off. Somebody at Apple just decided to push out these particular new sources to me without me even selecting anything - even the option of turning news on itself.