Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig usecure-news.com. NS
Answer
usecure-news.com. 5 NS ns-1042.awsdns-02.org.
usecure-news.com. 5 NS ns-1887.awsdns-43.co.uk.
usecure-news.com. 5 NS ns-478.awsdns-59.com.
usecure-news.com. 5 NS ns-952.awsdns-55.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0