I guess what I meant to ask (but didn't know the correct terminology) was whether duckduckgo had their own news *aggregator*, which I guess is what news.google.com is.
But they don't seem to.
Even their news "bang" (https://duckduckgo.com/bang) - which is allegedly "!news" - merely directs the DDG browser to a not-very-news-specific search page.
Oh well....