"The explanation makes sense": An Empirical Study on LLM Performance in News Classification and its Influence on Judgment in Human-AI Collaborative Annotation. - Qile Wang; Prerana Khatiwada; Avinash Chouhan; Ashrey Mahesh; Joy Mwaria; Duy Duc Tran; Kenneth E. Barner; Matthew Louis Mauriello (CoRR, 2026)