News and Current Event Links
The following are websites for news and current events.
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New York Times Student Connections
"Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. Students can also submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question, or submit a science question and search through the Science Q&A archive. They can also expand their vocabularies and practice their verbal test-taking skills, and even take a Web Exploration on a variety of topics." --New York Times Learning Network
New York Times Student Connections
NPR NewsHour Extra (National Public Radio)
Here you will find NewsHour Extra stories written for students and interactive reports based on stories from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news broadcast on PBS.
U.S. Department of State - Information Office
Communications service for the foreign affairs community. IIP designs, develops, and implements a variety of information initiatives and strategic communications programs, including Internet and print publications, traveling and electronically transmitted speaker programs, and information resource services. These reach--and are created strictly for--key international audiences, such as the media, government officials, opinion leaders, and the general public in more than 140 countries around the world.
U.S. Department of State - Information Office
Other News Sources
These news networks offer a range of national and international news as well as links to their T.V. broadcasts.
Get your news from the sources that many newspapers and T.V. news reports rely on.
United Press International - UPI
Sites that let you search for newspapers or magazines by region or topic.