Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

News & Current Events


AllAfrica ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 1000 stories daily in English and French from over 125 African news organizations.

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BBC News
Up-to-Date world developments as reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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Blinkx
Video search engine allowing users to find online news, movie trailers, and popular multimedia segments from BBC News, CNN, Comedy Channel, YouTube, History Channel, NYTimes, etc.

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CSA Discovery Guides ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains comprehensive information on current issues with an overview of the subject, key citations with abstracts, and links to web sites.

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Factiva ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business.

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Fast Facts for Congress
Provides highlights from Census Bureau sources of economic and demographic data for the United States, states, counties, and congressional districts.

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Federal News Radio
Federal News Radio is an up-to-the-minute source for information about the federal government.

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FindArticles
LookSmart's FindArticles allows users to search and read over 2 million articles from over 500 publications.

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Google News
Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.

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Google U.S. Government Search
Offers a single location for searching across government information, and for keeping up to date on government news.

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International Relations and Security Network
ISN provides news and current affairs on international relations and security issues.

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Kidon Media-Link
Find links to over 19,000 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

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Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitoring Project
MEMRI's TV monitoring center focuses on political, cultural, religious, and other developments and debates in the Arab and Muslim world and in Iran.

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Newsbank Special Reports ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains links for "Hot Topics" and Special reports, including War on Terrorism and World Health.

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Newslink
Comprehensive and well-organized listing of websites from newspapers, magazines, radio/TV and news services from all over the world.

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NewsNow
NewsNow monitors breaking news in 15+ languages from thousands of the Internet's most important online publications, including international, national and regional titles, newswires, magazines, press releases and exclusively online news sources.

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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.

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Newspapers via ProQuest Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text of 300+ United States and international news sources.

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Research Channel
ResearchChannel provides access to programs via a live webstream contributed by member colleges, universities, and research institutions covering a range of topics.

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RocketInfo : Current News & Business Information
Rocketinfo scours over 5,000 news sources online.

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Vanderbilt Television News Archive ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Holds individual network evening news broadcasts from the major American national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

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World News Connection ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full-text summaries and translations of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from the Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS).

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World Press Review Online
Offers full text articles, search options and direct links to foreign media by country.

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