API News Stories order

greetings,

it seems like the order in which news stories are returned from the API might not be correct. for example:

/live/json/news/group/bridge/start_date/2025-02-23/category/Top%20Stories

is there something amiss here or is there some sort order that i do not see? if this is correct, what how is the order in which news stories are displayed in the API data determined?

thanks in advance.

yours,

steve