If you want to understand better than 99% of the population where the world is heading, you could do a lot worse than reading a few of the titles in the Economist's books of the year list.
Even better, read Machiavelli, human nature hasn't changed and it will help you interpret the news.
Also watch the documentary "The Century of The Self"; most news is propaganda, and this will help you spot it.
And, if you must read the news, aim for a bit of diversity (i.e. both media from the right and the left, and events in your country as seen from abroad, and triangulate), otherwise you will easily get brainwashed, censorship in dictatorships tries to block media it can't control for this very reason.
Headlines are clickbait more often than not, don't believe them, and "breaking news" is abused so often that it's become a meaningless tag.
Don't use social media as a news source, it's abysmal, even worse than tabloids.
Even better, read Machiavelli, human nature hasn't changed and it will help you interpret the news.
Also watch the documentary "The Century of The Self"; most news is propaganda, and this will help you spot it.
And, if you must read the news, aim for a bit of diversity (i.e. both media from the right and the left, and events in your country as seen from abroad, and triangulate), otherwise you will easily get brainwashed, censorship in dictatorships tries to block media it can't control for this very reason.
Headlines are clickbait more often than not, don't believe them, and "breaking news" is abused so often that it's become a meaningless tag.
Don't use social media as a news source, it's abysmal, even worse than tabloids.