AG News News Article Dataset

AG News Dataset has more than 1 million news articles, including 496,835 articles from more than 2,000 news sources in the AG News corpus. The dataset only uses the title and description fields, with 30,000 training samples and 1,900 test samples for each category.

This dataset was released by Cornell University in 2004. The related papers include "Ranking a stream of news. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference; The anatomy of a news search engine".