You want news?
We just created a quick news page - politics! Yes, is not sophisticated neither is probably very interesting at least you live in the US and want to get a political view according to users but hey, this is what I can manage to get up and running in 5 minutes.
Give it a try - another thing that needs to be improved with better templates and some filtering. If you do not mind, tell me what news you want to read and I will put it up there.
Before I forget, the news module is courtesy of digg.com .