Why does a newspaper combine news stories with features and opinion?

A newspaper probably combines news stories with features and opinion so that more people like the newspaper, because people like opinions on things. Assuming you mean features as in "Featuring Camila Cabello", they would feature people that are highly liked, because that would get more people to buy the magazine.

Explanation:

I'm sorry if it's incorrect, but it's what makes sense because newspapers would want to be liked, so they would include opinions.

"facing the rising sun of our new day begun

let us march on till victory is won.",

because the rising sun is a symbol of hope.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.