Life hack: if you do want to keep up on global current events but can't stand the breathless media circus, get your news from Wikipedia.[1]
If you actually want to make a difference consider putting more into getting engaged locally, whatever that means for you. National and global scale issues are really easy to fall into a despair/paralysis cycle with.
I mean... I'm looking at the current events page and there's a conspicuous lack of exhausting USA focused culture war BS. It's dry and to be honest a bit boring. If you look at the Ongoing Events pane on the right, there's a list of present issues that don't necessarily get reported on because they don't have the flash to drive ad revenue.
Exactly Wikipedia’s flaw: it only holds a mirror to the sources, and even then, a distorted one at that to the whims of an anonymous editor who very well could have an inflammatory agenda and in cohort with other similar actors.
I got some utility out of the Wikipedia current events page, but I don't assume that it'll be universally useful. I have to ask you though -- putting aside the general issues with writer bias on Wikipedia, what issues do you have with the presentation of info in the Current Events portal?
If you actually want to make a difference consider putting more into getting engaged locally, whatever that means for you. National and global scale issues are really easy to fall into a despair/paralysis cycle with.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events