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News in brief brings furrowed brows (9)

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I believe the answer is:

headlines

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'furrowed brows' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'news in brief' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'in' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'brings' is the link.

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(Other definitions for headlines that I've seen before include "Starts of newspaper articles" , "News stories" , "Newspaper features" , "Captions of newspaper articles" , "linked with furrowed brows?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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