How to clean up Apple News cache

I am receiving a Storage alert on my Mac Mini, with 121GB storage. While I have some other applications that take up GBs of space, after some poking around I discovered that a full 24GB is being used by the Apple News cache. Here's the path to the main offender (23GB):

Users/<me>/Library/Containers/com.apple.news/Data/Library/Caches/News/shared-assets-assetstore

Is there any way to clear the cache for Apple News? I have tried "News > Clear History > Clear All", restarting the app, and restarting the computer; none have cleared the cache. Are there any other options? If not, is it safe to do an rm -r on the Caches/ dir?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on May 11, 2021 7:39 AM

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Marco Klobas

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Posted on May 12, 2021 2:08 AM

Have you tried to delete manually a few magazines.

Every issue in News+ -> My Magazines has an elipsis symbol ⋯ on bottom-right. Click on it and choose Remove... -> Remove Download.

After deleting some old issues, quit News app and reopen it. Your storage should free up.

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