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Use NewsCred to Read all the world's breaking news from quality newspapers and blogs and thenPersonalize your newspaper by selecting your favorite sources for each category.

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Home base to find materials, lessson plans, and information about fact checking for educators.

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HeadsUp is a UK-based and oriented online space for teens to debate the political issues important to them. Young people share viewpoints with their peers and decision-makers up and down the UK.

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Opposing Views lets experts go “on the record” and state their position on a controversial issue.

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"Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All"

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Search Newsweek by hot topic at its Newsweekopedia.

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The New York Times Topics pages collect all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published on topics requires a free login and offers several time periods to search. Content is easily available from 1981 forward. An older archive, from 1851 to 1980, returns a mix of free and premium content.

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The Academy of Achievement brings researchers face-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, thinkers and pioneers who have shaped our world.

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Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. Includes lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels

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The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute. Full of Conservative Policy Research and Analysis

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Lists population, government, military, and economic information for nations recognized by the United States.

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CBBC Newsround site has hundreds of news-based lessons for teachers. Categories include Arts, Business, Crime and Justice, Environment and Health. The Literacy lessons cover a wide range of grammar and punctuation topics.

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Demotix, is a news-only voice for hearing the unheard, as well as a alternate channel for aspiring photo- and video-journalists.

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Ballotpedia - the citizen powered encylopedia for democracy offers information on propositions. You'll find info on elections all 50 states here.

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Track legislation and votes in the United States Congress with email updates and RSS feeds. Repackages THOMAS (Library of Congress Legislative resource) content in a user-friendly open-source and community project.

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A searchable archive with thousands of historic video resources, mini-documentaries, primary sources, text resources, and images aligned to classroom instruction

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Newsmap: useful for discussing cultures and comparing the leading news stories in various countries. Visualization of current events and emerging news. Nice meta analysis of the news.

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