Blank feed returning for some of the publishers in the Brave news feed

[MadhaviSeelam]

Description

Found while testing https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35659. After adding few popular sites to Brave news, clicked to open them under publishers, got This feed is empty message.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install 1.72.93
2. launch Brave
3. enable news
4. add few popular publishing sources (eg. CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times)
5. return to Brave news feed
6. click CNN, U.S. News & World Report

Actual result

This feed is empty message shown

Expected result

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.72.93 Chromium: 131.0.6778.14 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
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Revision | 69e5dc20ca483a13316632df5bcd9279bb2a3cb7
OS | Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.4391)

Channel information

• [x] release (stable)
• [x] beta
• [x] nightly

Reproducibility

• [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
• [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
• [ ] in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

@LorenzoMinto cc: @brave/qa-team

[PrebbLord]

Also having this issue with a lot of RSS feeds that seem to work fine in other readers.