I can't watch "news" on TV very long, other than perhaps a business channel briefly in the AM. I don't watch ESPN other than games, and really only CFB.
I can read on line faster than they give the news and without commercial interruption, and I skip the latest gossip on some movie star or Bill Gates.
I usually watch CNBC in the AM with my coffee just to see what's afoot.
Not that anyone much cares, but in Book Four, Lucy has twins, this war ends, for now anyway. John goes back home to Virginia.