Publicly available news APIs/datasets?

In addition to our list of publicly available datasets, I'd like to know if there is any list of publicly available news datasets/crawling APIs. It would be very nice if alongside with a link to the dataset/API, characteristics of the data available were added. Such information should be, and is not limited to:

• the name of the news network / news aggregator;
• what kind of news information it provides (title, snippet, full-article, date, author, url, ...);
• whether it allows for crawling its contents via an API (and rate: 10/min, 1k/month, ...);
• whether it simply provides a snapshot of the whole dataset.
• news sources covered
• date range of news content coverage

Any suggestions and further characteristics to be added are very welcome.