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Apologies if this has been done before.

General:
http://bbsnews.net/index.php <== Pretty libertarian
http://www.poe-news.com/index.html <== Plain-old Fucked Up Shit™
http://news.google.com/ <== Google. 'Nuff Said.

Local:
http://www.sacurrent.com/ <== San Antonio Current.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/ <== San Antonio's 'official' site.

Geek:
http://slashdot.org/ <== Computer/Internet/Geek
http://www.theregister.com/ <== Smarmy and British. LOL
http://digg.com/ <== Slashdot's cousin down the river.

Politics:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ <== 'Nuff said, really.
http://www.newshounds.us/ <== Where I go when I'm exposed to too much Image

Weather:
http://www.boatus.com/hurricanes/ Hurricanes. Weeee
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html Hurricanes on (Satellite) Camera! Smile!
http://forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/t ... /main.html
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fin ... uery=78229
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/
http://www.storm2k.org/wx/
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ <== More Satellite; mostly CONUS.
http://www.spaceweather.com/ <== Because there's more in the sky than just our atmosphere.

SCIENCE!
http://www.sciam.com/ <== Scientific American (yeah yeah it's becoming an oxymoron these days :P)
http://www.newscientist.com/ <== A bit fringy, but still interesting.
http://www.livescience.com/ <== Pretty standard, but still nice.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/ <== Pretty high-volume; interesting stories.
http://www.sciencemag.org/index.dtl <== Rigorous; high-quality.

Issues:
http://www.zeropaid.com/ <== Filesharing/P2P/YARRR!
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm <== Marijuana News. Toke, mon!
http://www.hightimes.com/ <== High Times Mag itself; the one and only. More Ganja.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/ <== Everything Military, Industrial, and Complex!
http://www.gunblast.com/ <== Personal Firearms.
http://www.gunsandammomag.com/ <== Guns and Ammo!
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I actually just read the New York Times and then, if I see an interesting article, I look for it on NYTimes.com.
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BBC, how could your forget it? :P
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For news:

BBC News

CNN

Dagens Nyheter Swedish paper. Independent liberal.

Expressen Swedish evening paper. Independent liberal.

For science:

Livescience

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My browser is set to open BBC, CNN and Reuters as my homepage.
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My first stop whenever something big happens. Their RSS feed is the first one I check in the morning.
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Keevan_Colton wrote:My browser is set to open BBC, CNN and Reuters as my homepage.
How do you set up multiple homepages?
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http://news.yahoo.com

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http://www.newsforge.com
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Aeolus wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:My browser is set to open BBC, CNN and Reuters as my homepage.
How do you set up multiple homepages?
Firefox extension.
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BBC, CNN, and Reuters. I occasionally hit AP.

I also read a number of blogs, both professional(TalkLeft, for legal matters, DefenseTech for generic military widgets, and Armscontrolwonk for all thing nukey-nukey), and political(A sampling of right and left, including AmericaBlog, Kos, Malkin's atrocity against writing, and the amusingly named RightWingNuthouse. I like the latter better, as he seems noticably more sane than most.).
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The Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

The Washington Post

National Public Radio (I stream it online)

Occasionally, I'll check out an online documentary on PBS's Frontline

Oh and I watch Fox News and read The National Review just to keep it "fair and balanced".

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Usually read Washington Post, Check CNN online, Gamepolitics.com for, well, game politics, I listen to C-span on the Radio, and I watch NBC, MSNBC, and CNN.

Alot of my news, however, comes from what the good people at SD.net post. :P
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And it gets the sticky.

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The Washington Post tends to have some of the best political coverage mostly because they are right next door to the guys doing it. However it is a register to see it site.
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The CBC has excellent news coverage, and is my homepage.
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Bounty wrote:
Aeolus wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:My browser is set to open BBC, CNN and Reuters as my homepage.
How do you set up multiple homepages?
Firefox extension.
Doesn't even need an extension; basic Firefox can do it. Just tell it to set the current page as your homepage when you have multiple tabs open; it will treat all of them as your homepage and open all the tabs.

http://npr.org <-- National Public Radio, where I get most of my news these days while working through the night.
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www.fark.com

Good source for random article of interest.
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http://www.365gay.com/

A source for all LGBT-related news.
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Most of the stuff I post comes from my local papers, then CNN.
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Internet Public Library

This is a website hosted by the University of Michigan which provides links to online newspapers from around the world. Great site for getting to obscure newspapers from non-western sources.
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Interesting little site..

http://www.newsprism.com/
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Peregrin Toker wrote:Everything you ever needed to know about communism:

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economic ... sframe.htm
Here are some alternate views on the subject

http://www.northstarcompass.org/index.htm it only costs $3 an issue or $25 for a years subscription.

Also this interesting scholarly research site http://www.geocities.com/redcomrades/
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