Research Guides: Research Starter: Current Events &amp; News: Current Events & News

Kirsten Setzkorn | Humanities Librarian

Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Google Trends
Google Trends is a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages.

CNN
Top stories of the day.
Fox News
FOX News is an all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news
Wall Street Journal
The single most authoritative source of global and national business reporting
The Associated Press
The Associated Press delivers in-depth coverage on today's top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more.
Frontline: Thought Provoking Journalism
Documentaries about critical issues of our times.

AllSides
All Sides uses media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum.
Infoplease: Current Events
Infoplease (Information Please) has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions.
ProCon.Org
Award winning nonpartisan site on controversial issues.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is a full-text resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control.
Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints in Context brings together all the information that's needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more.

Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers, and for 260 regional U.S. newspapers.

Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.
Regional Business News is a collection of 75 full text business journals, newspapers and newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window
Full text covering social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for almost 140,000 articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO's Current Issues database, and government information. Besides providing full text from over 1,550 publications, TOPICsearch provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,650 journals.

How Do I Evaluate Websites?
You should consider these criteria for evaluating Web resources (Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage, and Relevancy).
Evaluating Sources (The Research Process)
Reviews Step 3 of the Research Process: Evaluating Sources with the 5W Framework.
All Sides: Media Bias Rating
These ratings provide readers a sense of the political leanings of the source.

Barna Group
The Barna Group provides extensive research in the areas of church life and culture. Their ultimate goal is to partner with Christian ministries and individuals as a catalyst in moral and spiritual transformation in the United States.
StateMaster: US Statistics and State Comparisons
StateMaster includes information from such primary sources as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics that allows comparisons of US states. It also provides maps, flag images, pie charts, graphs and scatterplots.