Copyright

As to the synopsis, yes. The U.S. Copyright Act Copyright Act permits copying as "fair use" for such purposes as criticism, comment, scholarship, research, parody -- and news reporting. But not all such uses are permitted, and there's no single clear test applied. This is evaluated on a case-by-case basis, using four factors to determine if the use qualifies as "fair use" and doesn't need the consent of the owner of the original copyrighted work: (1) the purpose and character of the use (i.e., whether your own use is commercial or nonprofit, which you don't say); (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) how much of the copyrighted work as a whole is used (your synopsis presumably uses relatively little of the original article); and (4) how the potential market for the copyrighted work is affected by the use (since you're encouraging people to read the original article via your link, this might weigh in your favor).

But as to the translation, translation constitutes a derivative work (i.e., a work based on another work) and therefore requires the permission of the underlying work's copyright owner. Under U.S. copyright law, the newspaper articles are automatically covered by federal copyright law, even if no copyright notice appears on them.

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