David,
When we implemented the news viewer (embedded IE browser) in QT, we added some basic popup blocking, but it is not foolproof. The advertisers keep coming up with new ways to do it. Seems that the site you are using for news is using some popup technique that QT is not blocking. Only things you can do is either use a different site for news, or set QT to use external browser and count on the ad blocking within the browser to handle the popups. If you use external, then when you view the detail, it should open the new page within a tab in an existing browser window.
When we implemented the news viewer (embedded IE browser) in QT, we added some basic popup blocking, but it is not foolproof. The advertisers keep coming up with new ways to do it. Seems that the site you are using for news is using some popup technique that QT is not blocking. Only things you can do is either use a different site for news, or set QT to use external browser and count on the ad blocking within the browser to handle the popups. If you use external, then when you view the detail, it should open the new page within a tab in an existing browser window.