To clarify the In the News section on Wikipedias main page is intended to showcase Wikipedia articles that have been updated due to recent developments It is not intended to be a news feature Its the encyclopedia articles that are featured not the news itself No news is put into In the News without a corresponding article being updated because of it See WPITNMP for details Renaming In the News to something else to alleviate confusion is a perennial proposal but nothing has ever come of it       Wikinews is not part of Wikipedia but an independent project of the Wikimedia Foundation They use the same software though  There are some overlap but they are run by different volunteers     Also Wikipedia is GFDL licensed while Wikinews is some other notsofree licence cant remember which  Putting notsofreely licensed stuff on a page to which the fait use rationale does not apply would be a violation of copyright law  although the main reasons have been stated above     Wikinews is Creative Commons Attribution  Generic so it is still free by Wikipedia standards