# x402 Content Hub - Latest News

> x402 Content Hub - Latest News is a paid API for AI agents from x402-content-hub.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the latest real-time news headlines, optionally filtered by country, paid via USDC on Base using the x402 protocol

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402-content-hub.vercel.app/api/news/latest
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-content-hub-latest-news-ac7f4846
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OvjHH_-puS2OWrFeiWkSV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability x402-content-hub-latest-news-ac7f4846 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the latest news headlines for the United States right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, up-to-date news headlines and can pay per-call with USDC on Base via the x402 protocol. Prefer this over static or cached news APIs when freshness is critical and country-specific filtering is needed.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid country code may return all news or an error
- Payment failure due to insufficient USDC balance returns 402 Payment Required
- Upstream news provider outage may result in empty or stale data
- Malformed request body returns 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Amazon products, real-time news, image search, Medium articles, and Spotify data. Pay with USDC on Base.

## Output

Returns a data object containing the latest news articles and headlines, filtered by the requested country if specified, sourced in real-time and delivered after a $0.05 USDC micropayment via x402 on Base.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "country": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-content-hub-latest-news-ac7f4846/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-content-hub.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-content-hub.vercel.app/llms.txt)