these are the news sites that I will hit during the course of the day
These two are two news "dumps" they generally will have the biggest news stories of the day - and it gets updated daily
Drudge Report
Short News
Good for foreign news - they also have a lot of wacky news stories
Ananova
Links to the some of the north jersey papers - like the bergen record and
North Jersey News
An excellent news search engine
Google News
CNN is organized pretty well
cnn
If you get more specific about what you are looking for - that migh help narrrow down the search