FWIW, there's a Drudge report front-end I attempted a number of years ago. Inactive but archive link in profile. It had 'mouseover titles' and 'popup dots' where articles would open to a popup window. One reason that site's popular is because people just leave it open in a tab and it changes every 135 seconds on auto-refresh.

  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="135">

> Honestly I just like the Drudge layout and wanted more relevant articles

I'm a regular reader of Drudge since I found this style:

https://www.drudgereportfeed.com/

Of all the sites to copy...