One thing I see a lot is the same event repackaged repeatedly with various headlines from different angles to elicit despair and outrage. If you heard about it once already, that is probably enough.

Spending an hour a day reading news from reputable sources is a lot healthier than doomscrolling questionable content for 8 hours on Reddit and Instagram.

It means that you are not in control of any of it. You can't impact any of it meaningfully as a single force, at least in real time. People used to watch a "news hour" once a day. You could artificially recreate that, and then detatch for the other 23 hours using self control, muted phone notifications and browser filter extensions. And maybe your brain will thank you.

Of course you could have a separate rule for local alerts that may be more relevant, but local news is dying unfortunately, soo..... You could probably just check in once a week to see how the surviving local paper verbatim reprints favorable press releases from the city's PR person that they retain from the local municipal consultant group with a forgettable acronym.

What is the question here? You take kids to do your work?! Die! You even just slightly have sexual dreams about kids?! Die twice! Kids must be protected and sadly that doesn't happen as much as you think. Anyhow.