Live news search. Returns recent headlines with title, URL, snippet, publisher source, relative age, and a breaking-news flag — real-time coverage past any model training cutoff. Supports count (1-20), offset, country (2-letter), and freshness (pd=past day, pw=past week, pm=past month, py=past year). Use for current events, market-moving developments, monitoring, and "what happened with X" questions. For general web results see /api/search/web; for Hacker News specifically see /api/news/hn-top.