Help with interpreting this prompt?

College Essays
1

Pick a story of local, national, or international importance from the
front page of any newspaper. Identify your source and give the date
the article appeared. Then use your sense of humor, sense of outrage,
sense of justice—or just plain good sense—to explain why the
story engages your attention.

Do you think it would be acceptable to use a story on the homepage of a news website?

2

I’d say as long as it’s a newspaper. E.g. the Wall Street Journal or LA Times website.