diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
deleted file mode 100644
index 176746a..0000000
--- a/.env.example
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# MYSQL Database
-MYSQL_HOST=
-MYSQL_PORT=
-MYSQL_DATABASE=
-MYSQL_USER=
-MYSQL_PASSWORD=
-
-# Telegram bot api key
-BOT_API_KEY=
-
-
-# Flask secret key
-SECRET_KEY=
diff --git a/telegram_bot/news_fetcher.py b/telegram_bot/news_fetcher.py
index 77626fc..dbebe34 100644
--- a/telegram_bot/news_fetcher.py
+++ b/telegram_bot/news_fetcher.py
@@ -7,13 +7,18 @@ __version__ = "0.0.1"
 __license__ = "None"
 
 import sys
-from newsapi import NewsApiClient
-from pandas.io.json import json_normalize
+import os
 import json
+
 import pandas as pd
 
+from newsapi import NewsApiClient
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+load_dotenv()
+
 # Init
-newsapi = NewsApiClient(api_key='4261069558d64489a104ca40df8d2edc')
+newsapi = NewsApiClient(api_key=os.getenv('NEWS_API_KEY'))
 
 # /v2/top-headlines
 top_headlines = newsapi.get_top_headlines(q='bitcoin', sources='bbc-news,the-verge', language='en')
@@ -39,5 +44,9 @@ def format_article(article):
     return formatted_article
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    
+    print("fetching top news by keyword business...")
+    
     articles = get_top_news_by_keyword("business")
-    formatted_article = format_article(articles["articles"][0])
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+    formatted_article = format_article(articles["articles"][0])
+    print(formatted_article)
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