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Local News

North American and British News Sources

The New York Times 

Washington Post 

NPR News 

BBC News

AP:  Associated Press

Includes Not Real News: A look at what didn't happen this week, a "roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week."

Reuters 

Times Online 

The Guardian 

CNN

Fox News

MSNBC

Los Angeles Times

Miami Herald 

A good source for Latin America. 

USA Today

Philadelphia Inquirer

The Globe and Mail 

One of Canada's finest newspapers 

Bloomberg.com 

The Irish Times


Time 

Newsweek 

US News and World Report

The Economist 

The Christian Science Monitor 

Politico.com 

The Atlantic

New Republic

The Nation 

An influential and long-running left-leaning journal.

Slate 

National Review 

The most important conservative journal in America.

Mother Jones 

High-quality articles from a left-leaning perspective.

Foreign Affairs 

A very influential publication.

Foreign Policy

Current History 

"The oldest United States publication devoted exclusively to world affairs."

World Politics Review

"A leading online publication known for its comprehensive coverage of global affairs, politics, and international relations. It provides students with in-depth news and expert analysis on global affairs to help them identify and make sense of the events and trends shaping our world." Free trial from EBSCO till June 2024.For access to the website here, please use a school email address when establishing the username. 

Futurity

"Futurity features the latest discoveries by scientists at top research universities in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia."

ProPublica 

"An independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."

Cook Political Report 

"An independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends."

Yale Global Online 

"A publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization."

GlobalSecurity.org 

"Background information and developing news stories in the fields of defense, space, intelligence, WMD, and homeland security."

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index 

Scores of political cartoons on scores of subjects.

FactCheck.org 

Annenberg Political Fact Check.  Find out how much of the truth the politicians are telling you.

Program for Public Consultation

From the University of Maryland.

Politics1 

National, state, and local political news and information.

GovTrack 

"We publish the status of federal legislation, information about your representative and senators in Congress including voting records, and original research on GovTrack Insider."

Europe 

Le Monde Diplomatique 

Monthly news summary from France's most prestigious newspaper.  English version.

Radio France International (RFI)

"RFI is a French news and current affairs public radio station that broadcasts worldwide in French and in 13 other languages*."

France 24

"France 24, the international news channel, broadcasts 24/7 (6 hours a day in Spanish) to 355 million households around the world in French, Arabic, English and Spanish."

The Connexion

"News, updates, analysis and comment on developments affecting France and everyday life here since 2002. Our aim is for readers to understand more about the country so they can integrate and feel at home. We do cover articles about expats but our primary focus is France and we carry a high number of interviews and profiles of French politicians, cultural figures and others in the French news as well as environmental and scientific innovations. "

EFE

Major Spanish news service.

Zeit Online

Popular German newspaper.

Der Spiegel 

English language version of a major German news magazine.

ITAR-TASS 

Official Russian news agency.

Middle East 

Ha'aretz English Edition 

A respected Israeli newspaper.

Jerusalem Post 

Another influential Israeli newspaper.

IRNA 

Islamic Republic News Agency.  The official Iranian news agency.

Al-Jazeera 

The controversial Arab satellite channel from Qatar.  Extremely popular in the Arab world.

Ahram Online

"The English-language news web site published by Al-Ahram Establishment, Egypt’s largest news organisation, and the publisher of the Middle East’s oldest newspaper: the daily Al-Ahram, in publication since 1875."

SANA 

Syria Arab News Agency.  Official news service.

Arab News 

Saudi Arabian newspaper.

Tehran Times 

Iranian daily in English.

Asia 

China Daily

Xinhua 

Chinese state news agency.

People's Daily 

Chinese Communist Party newspaper.

Taipei Times 

From Taiwan.

Asahi Shimbun 

Japanese daily associated with the International Herald Tribune.

Korean Central News Agency 

State-run news agency of North Korea.  A trip.

Indian Express

"Delhi based daily."

Daily Dawn 

"Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper."

Africa

AllAfrica.com 

"Over 800 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 600,000 articles in our searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997)."

Panafrican News Agency

AfricaBusiness.com 

NAA:  New Africa Analysis

"The latest news from Africa as it happens from a progressive perspective."

Pambazuka News

SABC:  South African Broadcasting Corporation

Latin America 

BBC Country Profiles:  Americas 

Covers news, headlines, overviews, leader profiles, facts and timelines.

Business News Americas 

"Daily English and Spanish regional news coverage across 12 sectors and complementary intelligence."

Center for International Policy 

"Timely policy analysis, North-South dialogue and in-depth reports on key issues of the hemisphere through weekly publications by its experienced staff and regional network of policy experts."

COHA

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs,"a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization."

Granma Internacional 

Government newspaper from Cuba.

Latin America in Movement 

From the Latin American Information Agency (ALAI, for its Spanish acronym). "A communications organization committed to human rights, gender equality, and citizen participation in the development and public affairs of Latin America."

Latin America Press 

"Publishing independent news, analysis and information materials since 1969... As an alternative source of information we cover the kind of angles and people that you won't find everyday in the mainstream media."

Latin Business Chronicle 

"Miami-based online journal Latin Business Chronicle, a division of Latin Trade Online, offers the trends beyond the daily headlines, through in-depth reports and commentaries."OAS Organization of American States.

Political Database of the Americas 

From Georgetown University.

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 

"Published three times yearly, focuses on different themes related to Latin America, Latinos/as, and the Iberian peninsula."

Zona Latina

"Covers all types of media and advertising in Latin America, with research data, photographs, event schedules, directories, book reviews, and numerous links to Latin American media resources."

News Search and Aggregators

Google News Search

Yahoo News

NewsLookup.com

"A news search engine, news aggregator, and news services provider founded by Michael Kynast in 2000.  We are first news search engine to arrange search results by geo-source of the news organization and categorization by news media type (Newspapers, Television, Radio, Internet)."

NewsNow 

"NewsNow.co.uk is the UK's first and leading home-grown and independent news aggregation service. Fully-automated, and on a continuous basis, NewsNow displays breaking headlines linking to news websites all around the world."

AllSides 

"Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant."

Watching America 

"News and views about the United States published in other countries." Translated into 

World Newspapers.com 

World newspapers online and news sites in English by region.English.