News and Weather

AccuWeather provides data about national and international weather conditions, including maps and forecasts. The password to this site's Premium Weather Service is available from Allegany College of Maryland librarians for students or faculty needing more detailed weather information.

Links to hundreds of online English-language news media can be found at NewsDirectory.com. Newspapers, magazines,radio and television stations, and government information bureaus are included in this collection.

The Cumberland Times-News web page provides access to local, national, and world news items, updated daily. A list of links to other news, sports, and weather sites is also available here.

CNN's site has information about current events, recent political developments, and updates about ongoing news items, as well as today's news. A link to CNNfn, CNN's financial network, is also available from the CNN site.

The New York Times online edition features news from today's print edition and other news items of special interest to Internet readers. Information about ongoing events is updated frequently.

Time.com provides daily updates about ongoing news events, access to international editions of Time, and an online archive of several months' articles.

USA Today online includes articles from today's paper and a cybernews section. Updates are posted several times each day. An index of previously posted articles is also available.

The News Division of the Special Libraries Association has created web pages that provide links to online archives of articles from U.S. newspapers and newspapers from other countries.  Some of these archives provide articles for free.  Others provide short citations for free but charge a fee for full-text articles.

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