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While there is some javascript in there, wikinews is pretty much a static website.

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://eu.usatoday.com Seems pretty nice after they were "forced" to remove all the nasty scripts.

I don't know if it counts, but there's lite.cnn.io

Besides that, I just disable javascript for The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, etc.

There is also https://text.npr.org/ , which was discussed here about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342758

I thought there was a comment in there listing some other news sites that did this (besides CNN), but I skimmed and I can't find it now so I'm probably misremembering.