Some charge a small fee per article while others are totally free. One of the pioneers, and still the best, is the News and Observer which is called Nando for short. Link up to their web site and read away. For true news junkies, try PointCast which broadcasts news directly to your screen and acts a screen saver. Some newspapers even keep an eye open for news on particular topics of interest to you and e-mail short summaries with information on how to get the entire article without charge.
Several strategies are useful in getting information quickly.
If I can't find it in 30 minutes, I stop searching, step back and re-evaluate my search strategy. Search Engines Search engines are programs that catalog the material that is being posted on the web. Both create a kind of super encyclopedia that includes a listing for every word they find. Here's how they work. It doesn't matter whether you capitalize the letters or use lower case, but there are some tricks which I will tell you a bit later.