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CQ Researcher
Provides analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day. Covers national and international topics. Published weekly.

Opposing Viewpoints
Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites on contemporary social issues.

Free Online Sites

BU-News
Current news and events around campus.

CNN.com Special Reports
Stories broken into broad categories and special features from CNN. Includes archives.

Documents in the News (Documents Center - University of Michigan)
Government and private sources on government related news headlines. Archives to 1995.

Discovery Guides (CSA)
Discovery Guides brief you in the basics of a subject and offer recent insights, while providing the technological tools to enhance your understanding.

Ethics Updates (University of San Diego)
Created by Professor Lawrence Hinman.Contains links to professional and popular literature on variety of ethics topics.

Foreign Policy in Focus
"A think tank without walls," from the left. Can also search by region for current issues/topics.

Hot Topics (University of Louisville)
Assorted selection of hot topics.

Human & Constitutional Rights
Human rights-related hot topics.

Global Issues on the UN Agenda
Contains UN documents, news, background information, videos on a variety of global issues such as AIDS, disarmament, terrorism, women.

Sites in the News (University at Albany)
A changing group of sites reflecting new research resources or current events.

The Issues
Collection of topics from Public Agenda, a non-partisan opinion research organization.

United States Information Agency: Daily Washington File
The USIA Washington File provides United States Government official texts, policy statements and interpretive material, features, and byline articles prepared daily.

Yahoo! Full Coverage: Top Stories
Index of current, late-breaking events.