These links are to sources of current information in news sources that may be of use to you in your research. There are many more such resources and I encourage you to look at the Electronic Resources Directory of Baylor Libraries' resources, searching for a country or broad subject you are interested in to see what additional specific resources we have.
Provides access to resources for researching news, business, industry, and legal topics.
Provides access to resources for researching news, business, industry, and legal topics.
Scholarly and peer reviewed articles on the history of the United States and Canada.
Covers worldwide public policy literature, international relations, and world politics through selective international sources.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2900 titles including academic journals, 340 full-text monographs and reference books, and 36 000 full-text conference papers.
Google Scholar will reduce the number of results you get AND limit those results to scholarly sources you can use in your research. It does that by searching only for materials published by academic journals and academic publishers. Start using this instead of Google for your college-level research.