[rconti]

I'm not clear what you think push notifications are. They're what you seem to describe as "normal notifications".

The news notifications you're getting are the same push notifications that other apps have had for over a decade.

The most unfortunate thing is that, if you configure settings inside an app, half the time it's disrespected and that setting is changed later. It's safer to change in the Notifications center in iOS (eg, in the phone preferences, rather than in the app preferences).