feat: migrate general & news search to support Tavily alongside DDG

[tavily-integrations]

Summary

Adds Tavily as an opt-in, parallel search provider alongside the existing DuckDuckGo paths in general web search, DDG fallback, and news search modules. Tavily is activated only when the TAVILY_API_KEY environment variable is set — existing behavior is fully preserved when the key is absent.

What changed

• config/settings.py — Added TAVILY_API_KEY config var (read from os.environ, defaults to empty string)
• requirements.txt — Added tavily-python>=0.5.0,<1.0 dependency
• generalsearch.py — Added _tavily_text() async helper and _normalize_tavily() normalizer; Tavily results are merged (deduplicated by URL) into the result set before the DDG fallback branch
• ddg_fallback.py — Added _tavily_search() sync helper; search_ddg() now tries Tavily first when the API key is present, falling through to DDG on failure or missing key
• news.py — Added _tavily_news() async method and _normalize_tavily_news() normalizer inside NewsHandler; Tavily news runs in parallel with SearXNG via asyncio.gather, with results merged before the DDG news path

Dependency changes

• Added tavily-python>=0.5.0,<1.0 to requirements.txt

Environment variable changes

• Added TAVILY_API_KEY — when set to a valid Tavily API key, enables Tavily search; when empty/unset, all existing DDG code paths remain active

Notes for reviewers

• All existing DDG and SearXNG code paths are untouched — this is purely additive
• Tavily SDK calls use asyncio.to_thread() since the Python SDK is synchronous
• The news module runs Tavily and SearXNG concurrently for minimal latency impact
• No breaking changes; fully backward-compatible when TAVILY_API_KEY is not set

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Automated Review

• Passed after 1 attempt(s)
• Final review: The Tavily migration is additive and correct. All five files are modified as described, the SDK usage is valid, and the opt-in guard (if _TAVILY_API_KEY) ensures zero behavior change when the key is absent. Error handling is consistent (try/except returning []) and imports are lazy, preventing ImportError regressions. Three minor issues found: (1) the Tavily path in generalsearch.py is labeled "parallel" but runs sequentially after SearXNG; (2) import os as _os is placed mid-file; (3) large swaths of whitespace-only diff churn (trailing-space normalization) unrelated to the migration. None of these block approval.