If you're seeing that "keyboard arrow down" & such, then something on your end is interfering with something on their end.this is what google news looks like to me
IOW, you're blocking something - like JavaScript.
But not just javascript "alone", it seems to happen when blocking javascript via NoScript.
NoScript, by default, blocks "fonts".
So when you block JavaScript - in NoScript, & with NoScript by default also blocking fonts, you end up with things like "keyboard arrow down" displaying - rather then down "down-arrow" font.
That said, https://news.google.com/ does load particularly poorly (understatement) - in SeaMonkey.
understatement*: make that horribly.
(And it is not a JavaScript or Useragent issue either.)
SeaMonkey 2.53- with JavaScript disabled, loads that page lightning fast (in comparison).
Though with JavaScript enabled, it is then relatively slow (though still far better then SeaMonkey 2.49).
(Nothing scientific, but there doesn't seem to be much of a change, if any, between 2.53 & 2.57.)
FF 60 loads the page fine, in all conditions.
(Note that FF 60 seems to be doing some, or more, of its' parsing "behind the scenes", IOW presenting the "page", pictures & text, to the user, prior to actually finishing "loading" the page. In any case, you get a better user experience, on that site, with FF 60.)
Pale Moon also loads that page relatively poorly (though better then SeaMonkey 2.49).
PS: See what a URL can do .