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Faceabot Latest news is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Today's headlines and news search from 17 public sources in 7 languages. Free, no key.

Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
386 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

23 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for6 times that day news_headlines, news_search
23 Oct a tool description was rewritten news_headlines
and 4 more, back to 23 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Faceabot Latest news every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add news --transport http https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.news]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

news
news_headlines
Today's latest news headlines from public broadcasters and newspapers, newest first: title, source, time, short excerpt and link. Use when: you need current events, "what's in the news today", or the latest headlines on a topic. Topics (English): world, business, technology, science, health, sport, asia, africa, americas, middle_east. Languages (22): en, fr, nl, de, es, it, pt, ja, zh, ko, ar, hi, ru, tr, pl, id, sw, fa, uk, vi, ur, bn. Example: {"topic":"technology","lang":"en","results":10}
news_search
Searches the latest news (roughly the last one or two days) from public broadcasters and newspapers for words such as a name, place or event. Not an archive. Use when: you need recent news about a specific subject. Example: {"query":"Belgium elections","lang":"en"}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news streamable-http answering 142 ms 15 min ago

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Faceabot Latest news — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot Latest news do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: news_headlines, news_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Faceabot Latest news working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 386 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Faceabot Latest news?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Faceabot Latest news need an API key?
No. Faceabot Latest news completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Faceabot Latest news?
It answers our handshake in 386 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.