I think the following two suggestions are essential for quick reading:
1. Delete should not have confirmation (or it should be toggle-able)
2. When a news item is deleted, move the current selection to the next item, not the previous.
This should allow users to quickly read and delete items that are not interesting - right now, it's hard to read quickly because of the two things above.
At the moment...
...we fixed second suggestion. It's available in version what will be released today evening.