Systems and methods for providing improved news results to a news query according to entity expansion are presented. In response to receiving a news query from a computer user, a news engine identifies one or more interest entities of the computer user. Expanded entity data corresponding to the one or more interest entities is obtained, the expanded entity data identifying related entities to the one or more interest entities. The expanded entity data also includes category data corresponding to the categories of the one or more interest entities. Expanded news queries are generated according to the interest entities, the related entities, and category entities corresponding to the categories. News results are obtained according to the expanded news queries and a news presentation is generated and returned to the computer user.