Google News: How to exclude topics like "Pistorius", "Lindsay Lohan", "Casey Anthony", "Charlie Sheen", "Justen Bieber", etc?

I use http://news.google.com/.

I would occasionally like to exclude topics from appearing in the "Top Stories" section. Some example topics are "Lindsay Lohan", "Justen Bieber", "World Series", "Superbowl", "Oscar Pistorius".

I know that I can receive Less news from certain news sources such as mtv.com, but can I receive less news about a particular topic?

Under "News for you - Edit personalization", I've set "Entertainment" and "Sports" to never, yet entertainment and sports stories still creep through.

How do I get rid of the right column on Google News frontpage?

I liked Google News frontpage better before when both left and right columns showed different topics. The new layout has all the topics listed on the left column, and on the right it shows stuff I'm not interested in. e.g. World Cup scores, weather, spotlight, fast flip etc.

Can I revert it to the old layout?

Where can I find a minimalistic news summary site? [closed]

Surprisingly I have not been able to find a site which does this:

• has a craigslist minimalistic design with paragraph summaries of the most important 100 news events that has happened around the world in the last 24 hours
• the closest I have found is the two-page news summary in the print edition of the Economist in the front, I'm looking for something like that
• news.google.com is close to what I mean, but its purpose is more of a "launch pad" for you to go read headlines and then click to read the news stories in more depth, the site I'm looking for has a different purpose: for you to spend 5 minutes reading it (on screen or print) and you know pretty much everything important that happened in the last 24 hours, not in depth, just the bullet points
• just like at news.google.com you can search and customize it, so if you want the top 100 news "things that happened in Sri Lanka" you can get it with a simple search

I just went to Google News and read through five articles in about 10 minutes. I summarized them here in the format that I am looking for, which takes about 10 seconds to read:

Example:

TECH: Bing has cornered 12.7% of the market in the 12 months since it launched. / The top five top search engines are still Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, AOL. / Apple acquired Canadian company Poly9 which creates browser-based 3D software, last year it also bought PlaceBase which produces maps that can be layered with private, public, or commercial data.

POLITICS: U.S.-led United Nations Command met with North Korea about sinking of a South Korean warship, North Korea maintains innocence, the result of meeting will probably be just more talks. / Argentina granted full rights to gay citizens. / Russia and Germany concluded talks: Medvedev welcomed German enterprises' participation in the hi-tech hub Skolkovo outside Moscow.

If a site like this exists, it would probably be best created by crowd-sourcing: people reading the news and writing reviews such as the above. I know I would write for it since writing those reviews helps you pay attention to the news you read, remember facts etc. Would be cool if a site like this existed.

Problem with Google OR operator in Google News

Have a problem with Google News Search, maybe I'm doing something wrong way.

When I'm trying to find news either on

Russia LNG export

or on

Uralkali

on Google News Search with the setting "past 24 hours" ON, I get proper results. But when I try to combine them using OR:

Uralkali OR Russia LNG export 
Russia LNG export OR Uralkali

I get only the news on Russia's recent changes to LNG export rules in both cases. I'm curious what is the reason. I thought the queries should bring up all available news where either this OR that is mentioned.

To clarify: in my example I'm trying to find news articles that either have the words "russia, lng, export" in any combination OR have the word Uralkali.

Looking for (Russia LNG export) OR Uralkali doesn't seem to help.

Is there any way to revert to the old Google News home page?

Is there any way to revert to the old Google News home page? I was happy with the old layout but I absolutely hate the new layout.

Is there a way to indicate you want only long articles in Google News?

When I click on news articles at news.google.com, I often get taken to "articles" which only have two paragraphs of text.

Is there a way to tell Google News that I only want it to show me links to articles of e.g. 5 paragraphs or more?

How can I tune the set of items shown to me by Google News?

I have a local news section (for Seattle, WA, if it matters) set up on my Google News homepage. Most days, all it shows me is sports news, however, which do not interest me at all. I want to somehow downvote the sports news so that things that might actually interest me will bubble to the top.

How can I convince Google News that I don't care about sports?

How to subscribe to YouTube user’s feed without Google account?

How do I subscribe to a YouTube user’s feed (not playlists, likes, or comments) without a Google account?

E.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/user/$USERNAME/feed

I wish to have it in my normal feed reader. (not second source)

Customize Google News RSS Feed

I have a RSS feed of a Google News search, it looks like this:

https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=Fire+Sprinklers+--flood,+--floods,+--flooding&num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=countryUS&gbv=2&biw=1920&bih=903&um=1&scoring=n&ie=UTF-8&output=rss 

What I want to know if it is possible to limit a Google News search to a specific locality such as a State?

How to block sites with Google News?

I'm fed up with the sensationalized stories from http://www.dailymail.co.uk and would like it not to appear in my news search results. I found a way to eliminate it from the news.google.com aggregation when I'm logged into my Google account.

However, if I search for topics in the News section, that site shows up in the results. I realize I can do a -site:dailymail.co.uk, but I tried adding it to blocked sites in general search preferences (requires login to Google), but that didn't work.

Here's a related question that implies blocking sites doesn't always work.

News button disabled in Gmail's top-right panel

I'm from Poland with native language set to Polish (if that matters). However, whenever I switch my Gmail's main language to English, I'm unable to reach News, because proper button is disabled:

Can someone shed some light, what is happening and why can't I use News, when have Gmail set to non-default (?) language for my country?

BTW: I don't know, if there's any connection, but I recall, that when I set my phone to English with Android 4.2 I changed not only News and Weather interface language, but source of information as well (I was getting news and weather for United Kingdom, with no way to change this). That was fixed (if I'm not mistaken) in Android 4.3 and now I can enjoy English-based user interface in News & Weather application, while still having access to local, Polish news and weather.

Searching old news articles

Google News advanced search only lets me search news article by date from the last month.

Is there any similar site where I can search for news articles or trends by date for the last decade or so? I'm especially interested in times of early Iraq War (2003-2006).

How to search Google News by custom date range

I would like to search for news articles on Google about the topic Puerto Rico in the date range 04-01-2015 to 05-01-2015. Is that possible?

Is there any way to get rid of the Google News link from an empty Gmail inbox?

Is there any way of get rid of the following text from an empty Gmail inbox;

"No new mail! There's always Google News if you're looking for something to read."

Search Google News for articles within a date range

How can I search Google News for items and stories that fall within a date range?

For example, I want to search news articles on "hockey" with dates between 2007-2008.