News & Current Events: National & International News

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CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview, which includes three pro-con debates; a background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; a pro/con debate by representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected,relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

News (formerly InfoTrac Newsstand) provides full-text access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. Users can search articles by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

EBSCO's Newswires provide world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO.

New York Times institutional access provides HPU users with individual subscriber access to NYTimes.com. To access this content, users are required to create an individual username and password. First-time users may register via the link below.

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Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

US West Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. Includes news sources from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

EBSCO's Web News provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics.