AltaVista News Page
Top current stories are displayed under several general topics. You can also search with their news-only search engine that focuses on news sources from around the U.S. and the world.
Yahoo News
Yahoo! offers this place where you can search for daily news using their searcher, or by browsing in subject areas. Items are taken from a variety of news sources, but tend to focus on current dates of publication.
Lycos Top News
Tracks news stories by topic and also allows searching of archives. Nice interface is fun and easy to use.
Total News
Search a wide variety of online news sources for news stories and articles.
News Searching Resources
The Web is a rich source for current local, national, and international news. There are a number of search engines which cover multiple news sites and news wires. This section compares those news search engines.
National United States and World News Sources
BBC News World Service
The BBC News Service makes many news stories from Europe and the world available for free. You may also search their past articles archive, dating back to the site's launch in November 1997. Available in 43 languages; many stories and articles are available in audio or video versions. Provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
CNN News Searcher
Thorough archives going back several years. Check the box of the specific archive(s) to search to speed your search. See also their News Center.
The Online News Hour
The highly respected news program from public television is on the Web, offering current news and transcript archives of past programs.
USA Today
A national newspaper covering all aspects of American life and culture. Easy to search, especially if a particular section is checked.
The Drudge Report
Contains many links to editorial opinion columnists and other full-text news sources.
Newspapers Outside the United States
Guardian and Observer Archive
One of the major newspapers of Great Britain makes its full text archives available to the public. It is easy to search and retrieve news stories back to September 1, 1998.
The Irish Times-- Ireland
Allows narrowing of the archival search through several parameters.
Telegraph Newspaper Archives Online
Another of the major newspapers of Great Britain makes its full text archives available to the public. Registration (free) is required. It is easy to search and retrieve news stories back to 1996.
