The AP and AFP stories I quoted above were also on the google feed. You have to eehm... use teh google, then it is quite useful as an aggregator.
The front page is useless for following events in a real-time manner. It is, I guess, driven by interests of generating revenue and driving traffic. Politics could also come in, though I don't know.
I think politics, as in confirming ideological bias, comes into driving traffic and creating revenue, yes. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
