I started seeing this issue on my iPad Pro since the last update, exactly as the original poster described it in 2016. The first story in a feed can’t be displayed until I’ve clicked a story lower down, and then back to the first. If there’s only one story in the feed, I’m out of luck (unless I double-tap to open it in a window, which I prefer not to do).
Anything I can share to help track this down? Is there some setting that might have affected this that I should un-set?
Thanks,
Mike