Here are some sites for current events/news:
Newspapers
New York Times: www.nytimes.com
Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com
Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/
Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/
Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/
New York Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com
New York Post: http://www.nypost.com
AM New York: http://www.amny.com
Riverdale Press
http://riverdalepress.com/
Norwood News
http://www.norwoodnews.org/
Radio
NPR: www.npr.org
WNYC
http://www.wnyc.org/
Television
PBS: www.pbs.org
PBS Newshour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/
CSpan: http://www.c-span.org/
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/
CNN Student News: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
New York One: http://www.ny1.com/
NBC: www.nbc.com
ABC: http://www.abc.com
CBS: http://www.cbs.com
My9: http://www.my9.com
News 12 Bronx: http://bronx.news12.com
Univision: www.univision.com/
News Magazines
Time: http://www.time.com
Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com
The Week: http://theweek.com/
The Economist: http://www.economist.com/
Slate: http://www.slate.com/ (liberal)
The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com (liberal)
The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com (liberal)
The Weekly Standard: http://www.weeklystandard.com (conservative)
National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/ (conservative)
Other
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ (liberal)
Bill Moyers: http://billmoyers.com/ (liberal)
Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com (liberal)
Town Hall: http://townhall.com/ (conservative)
Bill O'Reilly: http://www.billoreilly.com (conservative)
Cagle Post: http://www.cagle.com/
Political cartoons and commentary (mostly liberal)