Phaster news is designed for easy access to a wide variety of past and current news articles from a variety of sources (business, environmental, financial, local, international, science, technology, weather, etc.). Various sources of news were selected in the hopes of avoiding an ideological hall of mirrors, with right-wingers reading only about the latest abuses by unions and the ACLU, and left-wingers seeing nothing but stories about corporate greed.

 ABCNEWS.com: Nightline
 BBC News | World
 Cartoons (links to daily-strips)
 Christian Science Monitor
 digg
 Environmental News Network - Daily News
 Globalist (the)
 GlobalSecurity
 LiveScience.com
 National Public Radio - News Now
 National Review Online
 NewScientist (latest news)
 news@nature.com - latest science news
 News.Com (c|net)
 News sources on the World Wide Web
 reddit.com - user-generated BLOG news links
 Stratfor - Intelligence from Around the World
 Slashdot - News For Nerds
 Technorati: Web Services for bloggers.
 The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
 The World
 USA TODAY
 Urban Legends Reference Pages - debunk internet rumours
 Wired News (Top Stories)

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