You can care about the news without reading all of it at midnight.

Caring about what is happening and consuming it nonstop are separate things, and the second damages the first. Late at night there is nothing to be done with what you read, so it just sits there, and a steady diet of that tends to produce numbness rather than engagement. Being informed takes less time than most people spend. The hour matters as much as the amount.

Pick a time of day for it and keep it out of your bed: twenty minutes in the afternoon from a source you trust. Then put it down. If you want to do something about any of it, daylight is when that is possible.