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News articles bring your studies to life, adding real-world context that makes assignments pop. With such diverse, relevant content, World News is an essential primary source for students and faculty tackling current and historical issues, events, and people.
Search Tips
Here is a typical topic in the news. Notice the Boolean search suggestions at the bottom to help give you an idea of how to structure your queries!
Example 1
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: Historic Political Prisoner Exchange
TOPIC: Several countries, including Russia and the United States, have just completed the largest prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War, releasing over two dozen prisoners to their original countries. Who are a few of the prisoners that have received substantial coverage in the media, what were they charged with, and what had been their defense? What are the terms of the exchange, and how have the negotiations been managed? What were some of the key countries involved in the negotiations?
SEARCH TERMS: ((Russia AND (“United States” OR US)) OR (Biden AND Putin)) AND (prisoners OR hostages) AND (exchange OR release)
Example 2
TECHNOLOGY: CrowdStrike Error Causes Global Outage
TOPIC: The American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings released a flawed update that caused millions of Microsoft Windows operating systems around the world to fail. In what way did the update cause failure and what was the experience of people trying to use Microsoft Windows? What were some of the most damaging impacts of this outage on the U.S.? How did CrowdStrike fix the update, what lingering problems did people continue to have with Microsoft Windows, and what was CrowdStrike’s advice on how the remaining issues could be fixed?
SEARCH TERMS: CrowdStrike AND “Microsoft Windows” AND (outage OR outages OR “blue screen” OR bootloop)