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the best freeware newsreaders are 40tude Dialog and MicroPlanet Gravity;
both are full-featured, user-friendly, and fairly easy to setup and use, especially MicroPlanet Gravity which is also more up-to-date (2021-5-2):

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/ >https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/files/latest/download (Setup-MPGravity-3.0.4.exe / 8.69 MB), extracted . . .
( / 2.19 MB / 15 Files, 0 Folders), installed . . .
( \Program Files (x86)\Microplanet\Gravity 3.0 / 5.64 MB / 12 Files, 2 Folders) [end quoted excerpt]

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm

The best newsreader app for Windows is Gravity. Thanks to the fact that its C++
source code was released by its original authors, MicroPlanet, it has been kept
alive on the Internet. (The MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader project lives here at
Sourceforge http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/.) After a 10-year hiatus (it was >last updated in 2010), I (Steve) decided to pick it up and keep it current. So,
GRC now offers the only still-working version of Gravity. I am independently >maintaining the source and have published a signed executable and installer. >You can find it here:
File stats for: Gravity Setup (v3.0.11)
file download https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip

(GravitySetup.zip / 7.41 MB), extracted . . .
( / 7.57 MB / 3 Files, 0 Folders; "Gravity-v3.0.11-Setup.msi"), installed . . . ( \Program Files (x86)\Microplanet\Gravity 3.0 / 4.16 MB / 13 Files, 2 Folders) >File stats for: Gravity Update (v3.0.11)

file download https://www.grc.com/files/Gravity.exe

(Gravity.exe / 0.98 MB), . . .
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i've tested MicroPlanet Gravity in Windows 7 and 11, and it works great; (40tude Dialog also works fine, but alas it is much older "abandonware")
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