I just look up the headlines and glean information from that alone. If I'm really curious or need elaboration, then I click on a few articles and skim through them to get the jist. Yes, I'm aware that that can lead to misinformation, but I read news with the assumption that everyone is a liar and is out to push some sort of agenda in one direction or the other. Even historical stuff can be politically relevant today, and therefore subject to revisionism, however small or big that could be. Of course, there is a limit to how much they can lie. So if one piece of information is consistent across all of them, then that's enough for me to understand the basic context.

That said, I don't look up news every day, just so every so often to get a general idea of what's happening. I even had isolated myself from it entirely a year ago like 131198-san has.