I am fed up with CNN’s idiotic “news” coverage and have deleted the bookmark and homepage. But…I do want some kind of US national/world news source that is thorough and up-to-the minute. Would prefer one that is not obsessed with politics.
Any suggestions?
I use google as my homepage. If I want news, I just click the news button and I get plenty of up-to-date news to choose from. Even local news as I have set that up.
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If you have any interest in financial news you can try www.marketwatch.com
They have plenty of news as well.
I’m partial to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
How about The New York Times? I prefer it to MSNBC.
about:blank has been mine for years. None better, in my book.
No suggestions, just heartfelt agreement with the assertion that the once-proud CNN news site has become utter drivel. Nearly every day, I mentally compose a Pit thread about the idiocy that CNN on line has become. They are full of misleading, poorly composed headlines that lack key information; ridiculous non-news stories; distracting and stupid videos; appalling t-shirt sales, careless typos, and more. Morons.
news from many different sites
CNN - gah.
When they went to having close to 50% of their front page links be to videos, and 100% of their US news stories redirect you to a local news station, it was time to declare CNN useless. A current listed headline, under the “West” part of US news “728 turtles removed from home”. 5 news stories for the western part of the US, and this one is worth listing?
Try Reuters - it’s closer to what CNN used to be.
I’ll second this. I have it at home, but I don’t have the option at the office.
That site never works for me, it is always slow and/or hangs/crashes.
I do hope you are joking. I want a news source that is as unbiased as possible. Matt Drudge is a idiot.
I use iGoogle as homepage, with two or three news gadges of my choice. With an elegant black-grey-white theme it’s friendly on the eye and gives me the news headlines/links a feel I need, together with the Google search field and other handy stuff.
I keep www.commondreams.org as my home page. The news is mostly political, but they also keep an amazing list of links to viewpoints, periodicals, radio and newswires on the front page.
Seconded. Set up iGoogle to have whatever widgets you find useful.
When I do a search for this, I get multiple hits about adware attacks on computers and how to fix it. 
I like http://www.myway.com
Customizable and NO ads or popups.