When I see something from a questionable source, I try to find out information about the source.  Here is what I found on news-republic:

"The “news-republic (dot) com” is a news “aggregator” (as someone else has noted here), meaning it uses software “bots” whose only function is to suck news from multiple online sources on the cheap. This means that what you read on its site (or shared from its site to social media) might or might not be from legitimate sources. The owners do not care whether their stories are true or false.

The main purpose of “news-republic (dot) com” is to accrue advertising dollars (via the number of eyeballs it can attract), NOT to earn money by disseminating good information or news. Thus, on “news-republic (dot) com”, you will find everything from stories made up out of whole cloth (fictional lies without any basis in reality such as found on conspiracy and extremist sites presented as fact) to actual vetted and fact-checked stories carried by legitimate sources; IOW, stories that might actually be worth reading.

Since it is much easier to find stories that might be worth reading on established news sources (such as The New Republic), it would probably behoove actual news junkies to bypass any article they see that is sourced from “news-republic (dot) com” and google for better sources about the headline or lede."