Current Events
Other Specialized News Sites

• Art Daily -- "the first Art newspaper on the Net."
• Arts & Letters Daily---news and reviews in philosophy, literature, aesthetics, language, history, music and art.
• Elections 2004 -- count totals, post-election nominees, documents of all sorts to give a total picture.
• Elections 2006
• Elections 2008
• ESPN Sports Zone
• EUREKAlert--science news from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
• Eye on the Courts--links to full texts of newsworthy court decisions.
• Hoax Busters -- from our friends at the U.S. dept. of Energy, it "describes some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." Also a section on real costs of e-mail hoaxes. Searchable.
• Hoaxes Online and in E-mails -- find out the truth before you forward that "news" on!
• NOAA National Weather Service
• Religion And Ethics Newsweekly
• The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press -- Produced by the New York University Department of Journalism and New York University's Center for Religion and Media, who aim "to develop and broaden scholarship, pedagogy, and public knowledge of religion and media, in all their forms." Includes articles, an archive, discussions, and links to the religious media and media about religion. A useful supplement to news media that too often ignore religion.
• Science Daily
• Science Now--a news offshoot from Science. Current stories plus the week in review, free with registration.
• Technology /Internet News--provides links to all the most updated sources.
• The Weather Channel--includes the whys of weather as well as the current updates.
• WeatherPost--a weather service from the Washington Post, with weather details for over 3600 cities as well as special features.
• Weird News--there are so many sites for this that Yahoo has an entire index category for it.
• Women's E-News -- includes news stories, commentary and an archive on issues concerning women.