It shows news headlines on the status bar. You can add news sources as RSS feed. The news is updated every three minutes in the background.
Some customizations are available in Settings.
It only can accept RSS2.0. Here is the default setting.
"newsheadlines.newsSource": [
"https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=inurl:www.reuters.com&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
"https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=inurl:www.cnn.com&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
]The length of the headline's characters on the status bar
"newsheadlines.length": 40The minimum value is 20.
Interval seconds to show a next news
"newsheadlines.showIntervalSeconds": 30The minimum value is 30.